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Study Extent

Horseshoe crab populations in Long Island Sound have been studied for the past 20 years as part of Project Limulus, a citizen science project that trains volunteers to collect basic data and tag horseshoe crabs during the spring mating season. We at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk have been assisting with Project Limulus for many years, training volunteers and leading tagging nights at our local beach. We have a dedicated group of experienced volunteers that we'd love to continue collecting data outside of the few tagging nights each season. As such we have developed Project Horseshoe using the anecdata platform so volunteers can report horseshoe crab sightings year round.

Sampling

Long Island Sound project for trained citizen scientists to report horseshoe crab sitings. The goal of this program is to continue to collect data on horseshoe crabs presence in the Long Island Sound Photograph horseshoe crabs observed in Long Island Sound

Method steps

1. Horseshoe crab populations in Long Island Sound have been studied for the past 20 years as part of Project Limulus, a citizen science project that trains volunteers to collect basic data and tag horseshoe crabs during the spring mating season. We at The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk have been assisting with Project Limulus for many years, training volunteers and leading tagging nights at our local beach. We have a dedicated group of experienced volunteers that we'd love to continue collecting data outside of the few tagging nights each season. As such we have developed Project Horseshoe using the anecdata platform so volunteers can report horseshoe crab sightings year round.

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