Description
Horseshoe crab populations in Long Island Sound have been studied for the past 20 years as part of Project Limulus, a citizen science project that trains volunteers to collect basic data and tag horseshoe crabs during the spring mating season. We at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk have been assisting with Project Limulus for many years, training volunteers and leading tagging nights at our local beach. We have a dedicated group of experienced volunteers that we'd love to continue collecting data outside of the few tagging nights each season. As such we have developed Project Horseshoe using the anecdata platform so volunteers can report horseshoe crab sightings year round. About this project Long Island Sound project for trained citizen scientists to report horseshoe crab sitings. Project goal The goal of this program is to continue to collect data on horseshoe crabs presence in the Long Island Sound What participants do: Photograph horseshoe crabs observed in Long Island Sound
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 50 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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Rights
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e12e4cc2-56b9-4268-9e9d-023fa7447c5f. The Community Environmental Health Laboratory at MDI Biological Laboratory publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.
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Geographic Coverage
United States
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [41.059, -73.461], North East [41.236, -72.985] |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2019-05-19 / 2020-06-20 |
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Project Data
Anecdata is a free online citizen science platform developed by the Community Lab at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Anecdata is used by hundreds of individuals and organizations to gather and access citizen science observations and provides a platform to easily collect, manage, and share their citizen science data. How Anecdata works: Project managers create projects, creating datasheets that participants fill out to share their observations. Participants join projects and use the Anecdata website or mobile app to share their observations with the project. Project data is now available for anyone to view and download!
| Title | Anecdata.org |
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| Identifier | Anecdata.org |
The personnel involved in the project:
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Sampling Methods
Long Island Sound project for trained citizen scientists to report horseshoe crab sitings. The goal of this program is to continue to collect data on horseshoe crabs presence in the Long Island Sound Photograph horseshoe crabs observed in Long Island Sound
| Study Extent | Horseshoe crab populations in Long Island Sound have been studied for the past 20 years as part of Project Limulus, a citizen science project that trains volunteers to collect basic data and tag horseshoe crabs during the spring mating season. We at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk have been assisting with Project Limulus for many years, training volunteers and leading tagging nights at our local beach. We have a dedicated group of experienced volunteers that we'd love to continue collecting data outside of the few tagging nights each season. As such we have developed Project Horseshoe using the anecdata platform so volunteers can report horseshoe crab sightings year round. |
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Method step description:
- Horseshoe crab populations in Long Island Sound have been studied for the past 20 years as part of Project Limulus, a citizen science project that trains volunteers to collect basic data and tag horseshoe crabs during the spring mating season. We at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk have been assisting with Project Limulus for many years, training volunteers and leading tagging nights at our local beach. We have a dedicated group of experienced volunteers that we'd love to continue collecting data outside of the few tagging nights each season. As such we have developed Project Horseshoe using the anecdata platform so volunteers can report horseshoe crab sightings year round.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | e12e4cc2-56b9-4268-9e9d-023fa7447c5f |
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| https://doi.org/10.15468/p62mqk | |
| https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=horseshoe |