Go forth and restore:'Citizen science' harnesses help of happy volunteers

摘要

Living shorelines, citizen science and metrics-these were the buzz phra es that sounded so new and unfamiliar to me at the International Conference on Shellfish Restoration (ICSR) in Charleston, South Carolina. Things have moved on and this, the 20thanniversary of the ICSR, was time to reflect. As Dot Leonard, co-chair of the ICSR, pointed out, it i all started with concern for water quality, progressed through restora- I tion of oyster reefs (and other species) and on to studies of ecosystem services being provided by these restored reefs. 1 'Metrics' refers to the need to measure just how successful restoration " has been. The importance of metrics has been increasingly stressed in recent years as comparisons need to be made between different methods and systems used for shellfish restoration.