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SUFB 380: Broome Community Seagrass Project with Fiona West
Seagrass monitoring projects are crucial to the overall health of coastal systems as seagrass beds all around the world are habitats of great biodiversity...and biodiversity make habitats more resistant to degradation. Unfortunately, monitoring projects are hard to start and maintain because it's difficult to find people to do the work on a consistent basis and it's difficult to find money to pay for the program. In comes community programs, or Ocean Citizen Science Projects.
Fiona West is the manager of the Broome Community Seagrass Program in the Kimberley Region of Northwest Australia. Her…
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