Beachgoers are being invited to become citizen scientists to help track how our coastline is changing.
Armed with nothing more than a smartphone, visitors to Tyrella Beach in County Down can now take part in a global project by snapping a photo through a fixed frame and logged via a website.
Each picture becomes part of a growing record that scientists will use to monitor how the beach shifts over time, helping them understand the effects of coastal erosion, rising sea levels and climate change.
Open days will be held to show people how to get involved.
That’s pretty creative! I’d love for there to be even more of this crowd-sourcing readily available for normal people.
They should do this at glaciers as well. I know they do, sort of, but it seems like they’re often too rare to get a “living” image.
I saw this along the California coastline once. It’s a good project.
