
First Survey on New COASST Beach
We decide to move to a new COASST beach after years of surveying Toleak Beach. The bonus is the new beach is full of fossils.
We decide to move to a new COASST beach after years of surveying Toleak Beach. The bonus is the new beach is full of fossils.
Sitting around the campfire afterward, uploading our data, I’m always grateful to have the opportunity to be part of such a worthy project.
Here’s a short video that shows our typical environment when we got to Toleak Beach to conduct our COASST beached bird surveys.
We’ve been surveying this section of the Washington coast for approximately two years. We do it year-round every month and in every kind of weather; wind storms, rain, and snow.
With a bit of creative problem solving we’ve gotten back out in the field to conduct our COASST fieldwork.
So just what are we to do with our citizen-science projects when COVID-19 derails the best-laid plans?
How quickly we replaced the warm humid climate of Costa Rica’s tropical rain forest with the cold humid climate of the Olympic Peninsula’s temperate rain forest.
Where does a dead whale go? After death, if the carcass ends up on a beach, it plays an important role in its surrounding terrestrial ecosystem.
Despite the foulness riding the breeze from the south, curiosity kept us moving forward. We knew we had to be close to our target.
Once again we were blessed with some outstanding weather and we had the bonus of watching the opening of Pacific Halibut and all the serious anglers heading out beyond James Island.
Some of my work has been featured on CNN, Outside TV and, National Geographic.
Just want to thank everyone for all the messages and encouragement this last year. And we really appreciate your donations as well! Our overhead is low, but we do appreciate your generosity in helping with the expenses.
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