The Marine Education and Research Society has teamed up with sunfish researchers Marianne Nyegaard, Tierney Thys and Tor Mowatt-Larssen in a crowd-sourcing project to get a better sense of the distribution and relative abundance of two species of sunfish – Mola mola (Ocean Sunfish) and the less common Mola tecta (Hoodwinker Sunfish).
If you’ve had the good fortune of seeing sunfish off the coast of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon or California, your photos will aid this research project to better understand these remarkable fish.
To participate in this crowd-sourcing project, submit your sunfish observation data and photos here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5V5F5XL
For more information, contact info@oceansunfishresearch.org
In related news…
The citizen science program BeachCOMBERS is expanding to Los Angeles and San Diego! New beaches will be enrolled in the program soon, at which point recruitment of new volunteers will begin. For more information, contact U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, BeachCOMBERS Program Manager, David Sherer.