We are excited to announce that our sea star surveys are back- starting June 19th at Tonquin Beach! Come and help us monitor the health of our colourful star-shaped friends as part of a 9 year citizen science monitoring project on our coastline.

This year's surveys will be happening at our Tonquin Beach site. With the help of citizen-science volunteers like yourselves we will gather our 9th year of sea star wasting data, contributing to a North-America wide monitoring program done by MARINe. 

Survey dates are:

- June 19th @ 7:30am

- July 17th @ 6:30am CANCELLED

- August 31st @ 7:00am

No pre-survey signup is required, we will meet at the trailhead in the Tonquin Beach parking lot. Remember to dress for the weather, wear sturdy waterproof footwear (for traversing slippery rocks) and come ready to survey some sea stars! 

You can learn more about our Sea Star Stewardship Program on our website, and check out our beautiful storyMap created about this project, 'Star Citizens Saving Sea Stars' here: https://arcg.is/0iD0DW.

If you have any questions please email our Program Coordinator, Sophie, at sophie.vanderbanck@simrstofino.org.