Coastal Walkabout
Broome, Western Australia

Coastal Walkabout is a new open access citizen science initiative which utilizes smart phone technology and social media to engage and motivate local communities to gather scientific observations within coastal and estuarine environments in Western Australia. This projects sits at the intersection of 3 of the things that enabled the project:  technology, open access science and the ocean. And back in 2012 the use of citizen science was a major advance in conservation research with the power of the iPhone.  

Watch the film below.