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    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Terms of Use
  • Latest News
    • 2015 Archives
  • Participating Countries
  • Our Publications
    • The Sandwatcher Magazines
    • The Sandwatch Manual(s)
    • Most Significant Change Stories
    • Sandwatch Brochure
    • Sandwatch Workshops
    • Sandwatch Competitions
    • International Conferences >
      • Lincoln Symposium
      • Rio+20 Conference
      • UNESCO Experts Meeting
      • The Bonn Conference
      • Paris, UNESCO HQ 2009
  • Beach Records
    • Countries with Beach Records
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    • Sandwatch Turtle Toolkit
    • Sandwatch Training Videos
    • CCESD Course Materials

Beach and Group Records Form

  • Part 1 About Your Beach
  • Part 2 Monitoring
  • ​Part 3 Action
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Complete Part 1 only once, after the first visit to the beach, unless any information has changed.
    Email address will be kept private and not shared.
    Location of Beach - complete ONE of the following 3 fields:
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
    Tick one or more of the boxes.
    Include up to 3 photos of the beach (with caption and date taken):
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
Submit
    Date of monitoring:
    Complete the items measured at this visit:
    - 1-5 by observation point
    Characteristic
    Point A
    Point B
    Point C

    ​1.0 Beach width (m)

    2.0 Wave height (m)
    ​2.1 Wave period (interval)
    2.2 ​Wave direction

    3.0 Direction of longshore current
    3.1 ​Speed of longshore current (m/sec)

    4.0 ​Sand size (mm)
    4.1 ​Sand shape
    4.2 ​Sand colour

    5.0 Number of pieces of litter collected within 2m either side of the beach width transect line​
    5.1 Weight of litter collected within 2m either side of the beach width transect line (kg)

    - 6-10 for whole beach





    10 Water quality characteristics


    Include up to 3 photos of the beach (with caption and date taken):
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
Submit
    Date action started:
    Date action finished:
    Include up to 5 photos showing the project “before” and “after” the action ​(with caption and date taken):
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
    JPG, PNG or GIF, 2-3 MB adequate
Submit

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