EDMUNDS UNDERWATER PARK, Seattle, WA
SATURDAY, APRIL 14th
Janna Nichols (the other half of Pacific NW Scuba) is an amazing Fish and Invertebrate ID instructor. As such, she started a Pacific NW Critter Watchers group in conjunction with her REEF surveying work. Pacific NW Critter Watchers group's mission is to: Put Fun into Critter Watching and Promote Critter Surveying in the PNW. They conduct quarterly survey dive days and the next one coming up is Saturday April 14th. I will be partipating by diving with a youth dive group from a local environmental school.
Join us for a Potluck lunch and BBQ, and do a dive or two as your schedule allows. This is the perfect chance for beginners, intermediate or experienced critterwatchers to get together, do a few surveys, talk about fish, and meet other critterwatchers! Never done a survey? Come anyway! The REEF experts like Janna, Wylerbear, and REEFDiver will show you how! They'll supply loaner slates, underwater paper, scan sheets, pencils and ID books. This is also a good time to turn in your completed surveys from the past few months. Come anytime you like - REEF divers will be there from 10am - 3pm.
You'll find dive site maps, directions, reviews, etc here.
Who's planning on attending:
1. Janna (Janna)
2. Wylerbear (Georgia)
3. REEF Diver (Valerie)
4. dive_girl (Nicolle)
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If you have never gone fish surveying before, you can learn more starting with Janna's Quick Start REEF Surveying Guide.
So why join a REEF Survey Dive Day?
Improve your ID skills by being able to discuss what you've seen with more experienced folks
Contribute to REEF's data collection by:
- obtaining a strong sample from individual sites
- focusing efforts on particular sites of interest
- defining the minimum number of surveys for the data to be really useful and the number of surveys at which the statistics stabilize
So just how good are your PNW ID skills?
Click here to take the REEF PNW Fish Quiz
Click here to take the REEF PNW Invertebrate Quiz
