SEANET Training Video

Check out the new SEANET Training video to see what it takes to become a SEANET volunteer!

Cheers from SEANET!

Happy Holidays to all the Seanetters out there! It’s been a tough year, but SEANET stands ready to welcome 2022 and wishes everyone a happy and healthy New Year!

New paper on Auk wrecks

A recent paper entitled TWO UNPRECEDENTED AUK WRECKS IN THE NORTHWEST ATLANTIC IN WINTER 2012/13 is in press in the journal of Marine Ornithology and reports on Auk die-offs in 2012/13.  SEANET data was used in the analysis of this report. Citizen-science programs such as eBird, beached-bird surveys (i.e. SEANET), and, to a limited extent, Christmas Bird Counts contributed to characterizing these events.

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Happy Holidays from SEANET

To all the Seanetters out there…….thank you for your time and dedication to this effort.  In the past year, we have expanded our coverage along North Carolina’s northeastern coast through a series of workshops that welcomed several new Seanetters to the ranks.

SEANET is the largest, coordinated monitoring program of beached birds along the east coast!  Only made possible by Seanetters!

Wishing you all:  Happiness, Good Health and a festive Holiday season!!

SEANET on Anecdata soars to 7,551 observations!

SEANET went live on Anecdata in February 2019.  This is a new, online data entry and management portal for Seanetters to upload their beach walk survey data provided by Anecdata.org.  The SEANET portal can be reached at- https://www.anecdata.org/projects/view/462

This is the actual image of the SEANET Project Page on Anecdata.

Thanks to the DEDICATION of Seanetters over the years, over 7,000+ observations were uploaded to the SEANET site on Anecdata. These observations include all the data from beach walks that recorded 1 or more beached birds from 2002 to present!!!  Visit the SEANET Project on Anecdata and explore these observations for yourself.   Thanks again to all the Seanetters out there – you are the lifeblood of SEANET!

 

 

 

 

SEANET workshops coming to you!

With the recent release of the new SEANET online data portal at: https://www.anecdata.org/projects/view/462 ,we have begun hosting regional training workshops to signup new Seanetters!  Two recent SEANET training workshops were held in Corolla and Kill Devil Hills, NC and several new volunteers have “signed up” to be Seanetters!  SEANET could not exist without the dedication and support of our volunteers. Stay tuned for more SEANET updates on this Blog.  Cheers.

GREAT NEWS!

The Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (SEANET) online data portal is back! 

For the dedicated Seanetters out there that have continued to survey their beaches and have kept copies of the their field data sheets, the online data entry portal is ready to receive your survey data.

Thanks to Anecdata.org, a free online citizen science platform developed by the MDI Biological Laboratory‘s Community Lab, the SEANET online data  portal has a new home.

For existing Seanetters,  please visit Anecdata.org to create an account, it’s free!

For new volunteers (soon to be Seanetters),  please visit Anecdata.org as well to create an account.  Once your Anecdata account is created,  please read the description of the SEANET program on the Anecdata site and then click on the “all required forms HERE” link and fill out the volunteer and beach characteristics forms. Please submit these completed forms to the SEANET program (instructions are on the required forms) to officially become a Seanetter!

Please feel free to share this great news!

All the best,

John Stanton

Interim SEANET Coordinator

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEANET moving forward……

Dedicated SEANET volunteers have always been the “life-blood” of SEANET! Over the past several months, I have received many emails inquiring about the Data Entry portal for SEANET. Since the Data Entry portal was taken off line SIX MONTHS ago, I have been searching for a replacement site to host the Data Entry portal to store SEANET survey data. Long story short, I have followed several leads, but none have emerged as a solution. However, within the last few weeks, I am glad to report that I discovered a free online database site that may be the answer to the SEANET Data Entry portal needs!  I will send updates out via this Blog and the SEANET Facebook page on the progress to create a new Data Entry portal via this free online database.

For all those dedicated Seanetters out there, THANK YOU for hanging in there and continuing to conduct your beach walks (SEANET surveys).  Please feel free to send me your completed survey data sheets to John_Stanton@fws.gov if you would like me to enter your data once the new Data Entry portal is created.  Or, keep your completed survey data forms in a safe place so that you can entered them into the NEW Data Entry portal in the near future!

Seanetters are a dedicated bunch and will prove once again they are truly the “life-blood” of SEANET!  Thanks!

 

John Stanton, Interim SEANET Coordinator

 

Will the “real” SEANET step forward?

The Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (aka SEANET) was established in the fall of 2002 by the Tufts Center for Conservation Medicine / Wildlife Clinic. The network is comprised largely of volunteers that collect data on seabird mortality, population distribution, ocean contamination, and coastal land use that are stored in a SEANET GIS-based repository. This project sustains a long-term marine and coastal ecosystem health monitoring project using seabirds as sentinels, fostering participation by citizen scientists.

http://vet.tufts.edu/seanet/

The “other” SEANET sites are:

(1)The Sustainable Ecological Aquaculture Network, or SEANET project is a National Science Foundation funded project to help scientists at the University of Maine explore how different types and scales of aquaculture fit into Maine’s multi-use working waterfront and the river ecosystem. The goal is to build a network of interdisciplinary researchers along the coast of Maine to help advance sustainable ecological aquaculture (SEA) and support marine STEM sciences in Maine’s K-12 curricula.

https://umaine.edu/seanet/

 

(2) SeaNet is a teaching tool for undergraduate students at Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station in Pacific Grove, CA. This is a guide to common marine invertebrates, seaweeds and fishes likely to be encountered on rocky shoresand kelp forests of Monterey Bay and central California.

http://seanet.stanford.edu/

 

(3) SeaNeT at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington is a portal for UNCW students.  This portal provides student access to UNCW information.

https://seanet.uncw.edu/TEAL/twbkwbis.P_GenMenu?name=homepage

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Depending on your affiliation, SEANET can mean different things to different people, but for “Seanetters” there is only one SEANET – the Seabird Ecological Assessment Network!

 

 

A time to celebrate & best wishes for 2017

Let us celebrate the effort put forth by all the Seanetters in 2016 and make plans for 2017.   Wishing everyone happy holidays and best wishes for the New Year!