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Description

Volunteers will be participating in citizen science by sampling beaches for summer beach spawning forage fish. We then process the sample down from a 4L container to an approximately 500mL container using a gold panning process referred to as sieving and vortexing.

These smaller samples are investigated under a microscope to look for the eggs of surf smelt (summer) and Pacific sand lance and surf smelt (winter). Read more about forage fish here.