Marsh Explorer

The goal of this project is to advance our understanding of salt marsh ecology by providing researchers with large amounts of data on the distributions of marsh plants and animals. We are mapping plant and animal distributions every year over a large area of marsh in order to understand spatial patterns and how they change over time. Each year, we take ~15,000 photographs, but we lack the personnel to analyze all these photographs ourselves. We need citizen scientists to help us by identifying organisms and features of interest in the photographs using this web site.