Description
Project goal: Students at MDES (Mount Desert Elementary School) continue their intertidal population study of the invasive green crab and other intertidal dwellers on Somes Sound. This project began in 2014 with data collected in the early fall and early spring each school year. About this project: Students at MDES (Mount Desert Elementary School) continue their intertidal population study of the invasive green crab and other intertidal dwellers on Somes Sound. This project began in 2014 with data collected in the early fall and early spring each school year. This study of green crab populations in the intertidal zone is done at Suminsby Park on Somes Sound, Maine. Students randomly sample 1/4 meter plots and extrapolate to get the meter square data. Data is collected on green crabs, blue mussels, periwinkles, dog whelks, and limpets populations. Data is collected in the upper, mid and low littoral zone.
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.
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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: 00c2daff-a286-451b-b50e-38c69d8d1c63. 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
Suminsby Park, Mount Desert, ME
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [44.336, -68.305], North East [44.336, -68.305] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Species | Carcinus maenas, Littorina littorea, Mytilus edulis, Nucella lapillus, Testudinalia testudinalis |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2014-06-24 / 2018-10-02 |
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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
Students at MDES (Mount Desert Elementary School) continue their intertidal population study of the invasive green crab and other intertidal dwellers on Somes Sound. This project began in 2014 with data collected in the early fall and early spring each school year. This study of green crab populations in the intertidal zone is done at Suminsby Park on Somes Sound, Maine. Students randomly sample 1/4 meter plots and extrapolate to get the meter square data. Data is collected on green crabs, blue mussels, periwinkles, dog whelks, and limpets populations. Data is collected in the upper, mid and low littoral zone.
| Study Extent | Students at MDES (Mount Desert Elementary School) continue their intertidal population study of the invasive green crab and other intertidal dwellers on Somes Sound. This project began in 2014 with data collected in the early fall and early spring each school year. |
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Method step description:
- Students randomly sample 1/4 meter plots and extrapolate to get the meter square data. Data is collected on green crabs, blue mussels, periwinkles, dog whelks, and limpets populations. Data is collected in the upper, mid and low littoral zone.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 00c2daff-a286-451b-b50e-38c69d8d1c63 |
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| https://doi.org/10.15468/ustxyf | |
| https://bison.usgs.gov/ipt/resource?r=suminsby-park |