Project Description

Seashore spotter: Seashore Spotter is the entry level survey designed to collect casual species records from anyone who is out and about on our coastline. No matter what you are doing at the coast, you can always submit a marine species record via the online recording form or app (for Android and iPhone). Just record your details, your location and the species – please include a photo to help them verify what you saw. Get involved here.

The Big Beach Biodiversity Survey: The Big Beach Biodiversity Survey is looking for volunteers to conduct a timed survey, recording bivalve shells and other flotsam cast up on the tide. We are asking you to record both live and dead animals and plants found on the beach. The dead animals will have originated from the adjacent sea area and can provide a really useful indication of the diversity of life living beneath the waves just off the shore. More about how to get involved here. 

Seashore snapshots: The Seashore Snapshots Survey is looking for volunteers to take digital photographs of barnacle and limpet species on our rocky shores. You don’t need any identification expertise – just know what a barnacle and a limpet look like! More information here.

For more surveys like these, including The Big Jellyfish Hunt! please visit the Explore Your Shore website.

You might also like these identification resources from Marine Dimensions: Beachcombers Guide and How to identify a Mermaid’s purse.

Please note guidelines for recording safely during the pandemic here.

Photo credit: Briege George