Sea search : a community-based citizen science monitoring program for Victoria, Australia, Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries Boxshall, A., Koss, R., Wescott, G. and Miller, K. 2008, Sea search : a community-based citizen science monitoring program for Victoria, Australia, Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries, in Community Development and Ecology : engaging ecological sustainability through community development, Deakin University, Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights, Geelong, Vic., pp. 1-18. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Sea search : a community-based citizen science monitoring program for Victoria, Australia, Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries Author(s) Boxshall, A. Koss, R. Wescott, G. orcid.org/0000-0002-9392-3319 Miller, K. orcid.org/0000-0003-4360-6232 Conference name Community Development and Ecology Conference (2008 : Melbourne, Vic.) Conference location Melbourne, Vic. Conference dates 26-28 March 2008 Title of proceedings Community Development and Ecology : engaging ecological sustainability through community development Editor(s) Clarke, Matthew Connors, Phil Dillon, Jo Kelly, Max orcid.org/0000-0002-0036-5259 Kenny, Sue Publication date 2008 Conference series Community Development and Ecology Conference Start page 1 End page 18 Total pages 18 Publisher Deakin University, Centre for Citizenship, Development and Human Rights Place of publication Geelong, Vic. Summary Community involvement in monitoring Victoria’s Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) engages coastal volunteers in looking after their marine ‘front yards”. The Management Strategy for Victoria’s System of Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries dedicates an entire theme to community engagement with core key performance areas. This includes community participation. The Sea Search community based monitoring program was developed in 2003 to engage volunteers in meaningful ecological data collection for future sustainability of Victoria’s MPAs. Deakin University, an academic institute, and Parks Victoria, the management agency for Victoria’s MPAs, through a research partner program, trialled three different habitat monitoring methodologies. The trails assessed volunteer ability to collect scientific data, and social science aspects for their involvement in a community-based monitoring program. Information collected by volunteers, feeds directly into their local MPA management strategies to address issues such as climate change, introduced pests and human impacts and natural ecological variation. The Sea Search program addresses the two action programmes, Agenda 21 and the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, created at the United Nations Earth Summit, held in 1992. Both documents highlight the need for community engagement and capacity building for sustainability, health and integrity of the earth. Involvement in the Sea Search program builds the volunteer’s capacity by learning scientific skills, interacting with other like minded community members, and creating relationships with all organisations involved in the delivery of the program. In this regard, Sea Search is a citizen science program involving all sectors in society by promoting public-interest and research for decision making and planning of Victoria’s system of Marine National Parks and Marine Sanctuaries. ISBN 9781741561197 Language eng Field of Research 059999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified HERDC Research category E1 Full written paper - refereed Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30018227 Document type: Conference Paper Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Life and Environmental Sciences Higher Education Research Group Centre for Integrative Ecology   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 14:06:14 EST Tue, 08 Dec 2009, 07:43:51 EST Fri, 18 Jun 2010, 13:24:53 EST Fri, 18 Jun 2010, 13:25:46 EST Wed, 24 Aug 2011, 15:16:58 EST Thu, 15 Sep 2011, 14:56:15 EST Thu, 15 Sep 2011, 14:58:03 EST Fri, 16 Mar 2012, 17:06:18 EST Wed, 27 Aug 2014, 21:58:43 EST Fri, 06 Feb 2015, 10:28:02 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 1491 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 14:06:14 EST

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