Baltic Sea Project

At the shores of the Baltic Sea  On the 27 August we celebrated the international Baltic Sea Day by taking the school kids from Kello school to the shores of the Baltic Sea, specifically to a small boat harbor in the northern Baltic Sea in Finland. Weather cooperated the whole day while me, Suvi and Toivo received one 6th or 7th class after another from morning till afternoon. I am Essi Keskinen , a marine biologist at Metsähallitus Parks and Wildlife Finland. Our government organization Metsähallitus manages the state-owned land and water areas, national parks and conservation areas. My job is to do underwater marine species and habitat mapping and use that knowledge to try and best manage the Bothnian Bay underwater nature for future generations. My colleague Suvi Saarnio from ELY-center (Center for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment ) is a special planner and a marine specialist. Her job, in addition to underwater mapping, is to work in a Finnish-Swe...

Check the BioBlitz tutorial video prepared by UNESCO BSP citizen science programme team coordinators  Link to the video on Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sgVrkTHKwE Baltic Sea Day on the 27th of August 

From observations to citizen science “Observational data collected by crowdsourcing are called citizen observations. They are observations made on the observer's own initiative and on a voluntary basis on various topics observable in the environment and they have been submitted for common use. Observations can be made either on an individual citizen’s own initiative or they can be activities jointly agreed by different associations or groups…  Various targets and environmental monitoring applications can also be agreed to be used for observation. In that case, crowdsourcing and voluntary work may also be extended to ensure a sufficient number of observations to verify the accuracy of the observations or to summarize the observations. When also ordinary citizens are involved in asking research questions and drawing conclusions from summaries of findings, it can be called citizen science. Citizens’ observations are a part of citizen science.” ( https://www.ymparisto.fi/fi-FI/K...