UrbamarBio: exploring marine biodiversity through citizen science.
UrbamarBio is a citizen science project that allows research to work hand in hand with the public and make known the coastal and marine wealth of Barcelona, Sant Adrià del Besós and Badalona, strengthening the links between citizens and urban natural resources, increasing the feeling of relevance and co-responsibility in its preservation and conservation.
Through collective actions, which will be snorkeling and diving sessions, on the beaches of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area.
The main objective of the project is to promote citizen science and value the natural resources of the Barcelona Metropolitan Area coastline, detecting the marine and coastal species present in the seves beaches through collective actions, which will be Snorkeling and diving sessions, at the mateixes platges, with all the biodiversity seen and reported by the MINKA citizen science platform.
Objetivos
Phases and activities
This project began in 2016 and consists of a total of more than 600 species recorded on the beaches of Barcelonès, and more than 9,000 biodiversity observations. Thanks to all these scientific data, the First Participatory Guide to Barcelonès has been published and the fish layer of the Barcelona City Council Atlas has been created.
Thanks to the collaboration with OCAD University and the artist Roxane Taillefer, we have created an illustrative story to bring you closer to the urban marine biodiversity of Barcelona and so that you can learn about the great submerged paradise that we have close to home in an illustrated way. Do you want to read it?
Place
Beaches of Barcelona, Sant Adrià del Besòs and Badalona
Dates
Public
The target audience of the project is the following:
- A Centers for young people that take place in the coastal neighborhoods of the cities
- To the general public of Barcelonès from 14 years of age with good swimming ability.
- Divers with Open Water
Modality
citizen science project
How to take part?
Biodiversity data of UrbamarBio
This project has the collaboration of:
