Digital Technology helps Advance Citizen Science and Monitor Biodiversity During the Pandemic — Flashback Friday - FISHBIO

Digital Technology helps Advance Citizen Science and Monitor Biodiversity During the Pandemic — Flashback Friday - FISHBIO

This Flashback Friday, read about how scientists overcame social restrictions during the pandemic and continued data collection with a little help from citizen scientists. Training non-professionals to observe and communicate the location and health of local wildlife as part of “citizen science” is a cost-effective way to collect large amounts of data and monitor biodiversity, including in freshwater environments. Unfortunately, the social restr…