Crab Team Training Workshop (Lopez Island)

This event is free, but registration is required.

Interested in becoming a Crab Team volunteer monitor to help protect pocket estuaries on Lopez Island? This full-day training workshop will fully equip you to be our “Boots in the Mud” and join the Crab Team volunteer corps – no prior experience necessary. The workshop will include:

• An introduction to pocket estuaries and the invasion threat from European green crabs
• Learning and practicing the monitoring protocols
• Field trip to a potential monitoring site
• Joining a team of 3 – 5 volunteers and selecting a monitoring site
• Identification of pocket estuary critters
• Monitoring equipment

Details: We will break for lunch, but lunch will not be provided, we recommend bringing your own bag lunch. This workshop will also include a field trip to a potential monitoring site, come prepared with waterproof boots and warm rain gear.

Attendees are not obligated to monitor a site. We welcome those who are just interested in learning about citizen science and local marine habitats, and encourage you to read the Get Involved section of our website or contact us to find out what monitoring is all about!

Contact the Crab Team at crabteam@uw.edu if you have any questions. Visit the Crab Team site for more information.

This event is free, but registration is required.