Participatory science to understand the ecological status of surface marine waters

Luigi Ceccaroni (Citclops) Laia Subirats (Bdigital) Marcel Wernand (NIOZ) Stéfani Novoa (NIOZ) Jaume Piera (ICM-CSIC) Roger Farrés (Kinetical) Ivan Price (Noveltis) and the Citclops consortium Barcelona November 16th 2014

2nd International Ocean Research conference (IORC)

Workshop 5. Global Reporting of Assessments of the Status of Marine Environments

1.- The Citclops project

2.- Scientific importance of color and transparency

3.- What gives color to seas, lakes and rivers?

4.- How are color and transparency determined?

5.- Citizens and science

6.- Citclops and the Barcelona World Race 2014–15

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1. The Citclops project

• Extending historic water-quality data sets, using :

• old-fashioned techniques

• citizen science

• smartphones

• Water-quality descriptor used:

• Color

• Transparency

• Fluorescence

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2. Scientific importance of color and transparency

• Besides water temperature and salinity the color

and transparency of water belong to the oldest

observed descriptors of lakes, seas and oceans.

• The color of water is an essential climate variable

defined by the World Meteorological Organization.

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2. Scientific importance of color and transparency

• Forel-Ule color: observations between 1890 and

2000

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2. Scientific importance of color and transparency

• Color change of the North-Atlantic Ocean

• Plankton is increasing in this ocean

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3. What gives color to seas, lakes and rivers?

• Phytoplankton

(chlorophyll): small

algal cells growing in

fresh and saline waters

• Suspended particles:

sand, clay, organic

material

• Yellow substance or

humic acid: yellow

CDOM by rivers

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4. How are color and transparency determined?

Besides hyper- and multi-spectral radiometers:

• the new KdUINO buoy

• the Forel-Ule scale (historical method, 1890)

• the Secchi disk (historical method, 1865)

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5. Citizens and science

• Citizens can help science by using the

smartphone app.

• Pictures and metadata are sent to the

Citclops database for further analysis.

• Historical data can be complemented

with new data collected by the citizens.

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5. Citizens and science: information management

• Acquisition

• Interpretation

• Delivery

• Recommendation and decision support

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5. Citizens and science: context awareness

• time

• environmental conditions

• user profile

• status and availability of connected devices

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5. Citizens and science

• School-boat Far Barcelona data collection during the

2013 Mediterranean Tall Ships Race

• Data collection by a captain of a commercial vessel

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6. Citclops and the Barcelona World Race 2014-15

Collaboration with the Barcelona

Foundation for Ocean Sailing (FNOB):

• Citclops app and Citclops tools

Participatory science to understand the ecological status of surface marine waters

Luigi Ceccaroni (Citclops) Laia Subirats (Bdigital) Marcel Wernand (NIOZ) Stéfani Novoa (NIOZ) Jaume Piera (ICM-CSIC) Roger Farrés (Kinetical) Ivan Price (Noveltis) and the Citclops consortium

2nd International Ocean Research conference (IORC)

Workshop 5. Global Reporting of Assessments of the Status of Marine Environments

Thank you!