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Above: Colin Novak shares his enthusiasm
for the great outdoors with his daughter.
T
he citizen scientists of the Salish Sea
Marine Survival Project are out on the
water twice a week, sometimes up to nine
hours a day, collecting water samples. So we
decided to run a photo contest to inject a little fun into
their days. Top prize went to the crew from Sechelt,
who captured their deployment of a Niskin Bottle, a
common device used for collecting seawater samples.
CITIZEN SCIENCE UPDATE
Since inception, the Citizen Science
Program has been a runaway success,
monitoring a huge and dynamic territory
(the Strait of Georgia), and filling vital
data gaps in a cost-effective manner. It's
a collaboration between many devoted
citizen scientists, but much of the credit
must go to Colin Novak, our Citizen
Science Manager and the man who keeps
things running smoothly. With a master's
degree in animal science, Novak considers
the work he is doing for the Pacific Salmon
Foundation his "dream job."
"I get to spend a lot of time on the
ocean, which I love," he says. "Whether
I am out helping collect juvenile salmon
samples, oceanographic data or even seal
scats, I am happy to be in my element.
Also, I get to meet and build great
relationships with many colleagues and
citizen scientists. I am so glad to be a part
of such an amazing project [the Salish Sea
Marine Survival Project]."
Citizen-in-Chief
First Place:
"Deploying the Niskin
Bottle" – Sechelt Citizen Science Crew (From left:
André Alarie, John Field and Lee-Ann Ennis)
Second Place:
"Making Citizen
Science a Family
Affair!" – Qualicum
Citizen Science
Crew (From left:
Ryan Frederickson,
Nicole Frederickson
and pooch Hunter
Frederickson)
The Sechelt
Citizen Science
Group sporting their
first-place prizes of
PSF fleeces.
Citizen Science
Snapshots
