school coastal monitoring

The shallow, coastal waters at sandy beaches are of exceptional importance for the recreation, tourism and associated job market. Coastal waters give variety of goods and services provided by the Nature to the mankind. Recent development in environmental sciences changed the water quality assessment from the chemical pollutants measurements to the ecosystem approach ? based on the observations of the animal and plant life, considering that living creatures are the best indicators of the environmental health. Many of such observations are relatively simple, the main problem is the frequency of observations and continuity. This project allows junior students to take part in the research, process the data, and watch the results on the internet. Project is open for more participants and will benefit from the broad data exchange.