United States Virgin Islands
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Sandwatch activities started in: 2012
Coordination of Sandwatch in United States Virgin Islands:
Sandwatch in the US Virgin Islands started in 2006 with at group at the Good Hope School in St. Croix. More recently, in 2016 the St. Croix East End Marine Park has become involved through their summer eco-camp programme and through the Friends of the St. Croix East End Marine Park.
Status of Sandwatch in United States Virgin Islands: Active
Activities and Highlights: Updates in progress
Sandwatch 'citizen science' on St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
The East End Marine Park (EEMP) kicked off its Sandwatch beach profile program with the help of its high school EcoCampers this past summer. Sandwatch is an international beach monitoring program that enables local community groups to observe, understand, and adaptively manage shorelines in the face of local and global changes in climate. It monitors ecological parameters like beach erosion (sand loss) and accretion (sand gains); water quality; sand sediments; water movement (currents and waves); and social parameters like human use and pollution.
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The East End Marine Park (EEMP) kicked off its Sandwatch beach profile program with the help of its high school EcoCampers this past summer. Sandwatch is an international beach monitoring program that enables local community groups to observe, understand, and adaptively manage shorelines in the face of local and global changes in climate. It monitors ecological parameters like beach erosion (sand loss) and accretion (sand gains); water quality; sand sediments; water movement (currents and waves); and social parameters like human use and pollution.
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