Participatory science to understand the ecological status of surface marine waters Luigi Ceccaroni (Citclops) Laia Subirats (BDigital) Marcel Wernand (NIOZ) Stéfani Novoa (NIOZ) Jaume Piera (ICM-CSIC) Roger Farrés (Kinetical) Ivan Price (Noveltis) and the Citclops consortium Barcelona November 18th 2014 2nd International Ocean Research conference  (IORC) Theme Session T2.TS5 Operationalizing Ecosystem-based Management: the challenges of translating scientific knowledge into decision tools for integrated management

1. Participatory science to understand the ecological status of surface marine waters Luigi Ceccaroni (Citclops) Laia Subirats (BDigital) Marcel Wernand (NIOZ) Stéfani Novoa (NIOZ) Jaume Piera (ICM-CSIC) Roger Farrés (Kinetical) Ivan Price (Noveltis) and the Citclops consortium Barcelona November 18th 2014
2nd International Ocean Research conference (IORC)
Theme Session T2.TS5
Operationalizing Ecosystem- based Management: the challenges of translating scientific knowledge into decision tools for integrated management

2. 1.- The Citclops project 2.- Scientific importance of color and transparency 3.- What gives color to seas, lakes and rivers? 4.- How are color and transparency determined? 5.- Citizens and science 6.- Citclops and the Barcelona World Race 2014–15
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1. The Citclops project
•Extending historic water-quality data sets, using :
•old-fashioned techniques
•citizen science
•smartphones
•Water-quality descriptor used:
•Color
•Transparency
•Fluorescence
•New policies concerning environmental resources should have citizens’ support from the beginning.

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2. Scientific importance of color and transparency
•Relation to plankton and food chain.
•Besides water temperature and salinity the color and transparency of water belong to the oldest observed descriptors of lakes, seas and oceans.
•The color of water is an essential climate variable defined by the World Meteorological Organization.

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2. Scientific importance of color and transparency
•Forel-Ule color: observations between 1890 and 2000

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2. Scientific importance of color and transparency
•Color change of the North-Atlantic Ocean
•Plankton is increasing in this ocean

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3. What gives color to seas, lakes and rivers?
•Phytoplankton (chlorophyll): small algal cells growing in fresh and saline waters
•Suspended particles: sand, clay, organic material
•Yellow substance or humic acid: yellow CDOM by rivers

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4. How are color and transparency determined? Besides hyper- and multi-spectral radiometers:
•the Forel-Ule scale (historical method, 1890)
•the Secchi disk (historical method, 1865)
•the new KdUINO buoy

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5. Citizens and science
•Citizens can help science by using the smartphone app.
•Pictures and metadata are sent to the Citclops database for further analysis.
•Historical data can be complemented with new data collected by the citizens.

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5. Citizens and science: information management
•Acquisition
•Interpretation
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•Recommendation and decision support

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5. Citizens and science: context awareness
•time
•environmental conditions
•user profile
•status and availability of connected devices

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5. Citizens and science
•School-boat Far Barcelona data collection during the 2013 Mediterranean Tall Ships Race
•Data collection by a captain of a commercial vessel

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6. Citclops and the Barcelona World Race 2014-15 Collaboration with the Barcelona Foundation for Ocean Sailing (FNOB):
• Citclops app and Citclops tools

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Conclusions
•Citizen science has the potential to increase the monitoring of aquatic ecosystems through the use of local people with no specific scientific training to collect and analyze the data.
•Various categories of citizens can be involved: High- schools, Artisanal fishers, Fish farmers, Sea kayakers, Diving clubs, Volunteers (e.g., Coastwatch Europe).
•Much of the growth in citizen-science initiatives results from integration of the Internet and mobile technologies into everyday life.

15. Participatory science to understand the ecological status of surface marine waters Luigi Ceccaroni (Citclops) Laia Subirats (BDigital) Marcel Wernand (NIOZ) Stéfani Novoa (NIOZ) Jaume Piera (ICM-CSIC) Roger Farrés (Kinetical) Ivan Price (Noveltis) and the Citclops consortium
2nd International Ocean Research conference (IORC) Theme Session T2.TS5 Operationalizing Ecosystem- based Management: the challenges of translating scientific knowledge into decision tools for integrated management
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