20 JULY 2015
Everyone likes to go to the beach. And when you are dealing with kids who refuse to study science, measuring the sand can make it fun and foster a new generation of citizen scientists.
This is the idea behind Sandwatch, a project that began in 1999 in the Caribbean. Today it involves schools all over the world monitoring their local coastal environment with the aim of protecting it. In particular, the work Sandwatch does in small island developing states such as Kiribati highlights the challenges coastal communities face from climate change.
Source: SciDevNet