Citizen Science Opportunity - Fascinating and Lots of fun!

Don’t BE a crab - FIND A CRAB! 

Light Trapping Project 
Training Session

with Hakai’s Lauren Krzus

Friday, April 10, 12 noon

Salt Spring Sailing Club 
152 Douglas Rd.

Here is a great opportunity to contribute to a fascinating scientific research project to: a) learn more about Dungeness Crabs in Ganges Harbour; and b) help document how crabs are surviving in a climate-changing world.

Last summer, several volunteers from Nature Salt Spring contributed some time (a couple to a few hours each)  to help with a fascinating study of Dungeness Crabs in BC Coastal waters. The Study, sponsored by the Hakai Institute’s Sentinals of Change Program, uses a simple light trap left in the water overnight to capture night-swimming marine larvae.

Volunteers pull the trap up in the morning, dump out the ‘catch’, and record how many, if any, Dungeness Crab larvae are present. We also get to observe an amazing diversity of marine life that is attracted to the light - (see the strip of photos below). If you can contribute a couple or few hours of your time this summer, it will help us spread the roughly 60 hours of total data collecting - and it’s guaranteed interesting. No experience necessary.

If you’re interested please join our FREE short training session.

(If you can’t make this training session but would still like to consider volunteering, please let us know by emailing through this link ) 

(when the project starts, your time investment and schedule are entirely up to you)