Exploring new placed based technological opportunities for community science with the Marine Biological Association and Time and Tide Bell

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The project is a partnership between the Marine Biological Association and the Time and Tide Bell community project. Working together at 3 specified locations we will co-create with the local community citizen science opportunities to inform change in the local environment. The project will explore the potential for community owned artworks to act as a focal point for long-term monitoring, study and observation of the natural environment. As a case study, community generated data will inform science questions about settlement of organisms on man-made structures, impacts of climate change and extreme weather events and arrival and spread of non-native species.The project will work with local communities to develop and explore science questions and implement citizen science protocols including digital imagery to support long term investigation around each art installation and its wider environment. Each location will develop citizen science methodologies and data collection systems to inform science questions around change in the marine and coastal environment.