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Citizen Science in the

NR SAMDB MERI Team

Renata Rix

Senior Project Officer – Monitoring & Evaluation

5/02/2015

We started with ….

Approx 250 sites established

• Salinity (as EC)

• Nitrate

• Phosphate

• Turbidity

• pH

• Temperature

• Macroinvertebrates

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BRE-050

Salinity at one site on the Bremer River

The value…..

• Long-term WQ data

• Federally collated (BOM)

• Independent of Govt monitoring

• Local capacity

• Partnerships

Bird monitoring …..

….is big!

What else….

The value….

• Capture all data (not restricted)

• Share with the world

• Add to corporate knowledge

• Bird ID training and ID hotline to expand knowledge and capacity

• Support surveys in target areas as required

• Community see it, share it, value it

http://www.naturalresources.sa.gov.au/samurraydarlingbasin/get-

involved/community-monitoring