A Coastal Stewardship Technician with the Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation says a twenty thousand dollar grant from RBC will help them develop an app for their Coast Watchers program.
Alyssa Bourassa says it will allow their Coast Watchers volunteers to take data on the shoreline easily.
"It will allow our Coast Watcher volunteers to take data on the shoreline easily and have it in an accessible format for us to analyze and share with organizations that are also interested in data specific to Lake Huron."
Bourassa says this is the 16th monitoring season for the Coast Watchers program and the more data they can collect, the more accurate it's likely to be and the easier it is for them to see trends developing.
Bourassa says they currently have a team of 160 active Coast Watcher volunteers collecting data from Sarnia to Tobermory and into Georgian Bay. She says they collect data once a week from May till October.
"They collect data once a week from May till October and they take data on atmospheric conditions, shoreline erosion, any species or wild life, algae blooms and plastic erosion, With this app, we're really trying to focus on the most pressing issues in Lake Huron."
Bourassa adds the app will help them focus on the two most pressing issues along the Lake Huron shoreline right now, which is plastic pollution and climate change.
