MARINElife
What our donation will help fund
We are delighted to have received this award at a highly very opportune time, as our work programme recovers from the pandemic following the enforced hiatus. The continued role of volunteers is crucial to our work in delivering good quality scientific data on the marine environment as cost effectively as possible. The funding will play a vital role in recruiting and upskilling volunteers, needed for the resumption of our established ferry surveys and in improving the type and quality of our seabird recording.
The funding will also be vital to upgrade our website and better connect new volunteers, with exciting new training opportunities. Finally, we have developed a large backlog of photo-identification and other data from citizen science initiatives, which we can now begin to address to a greater degree through the new funding.