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Demonstrating conservation impacts in California Marine Protected Areas using large-scale participatory science data
25 Jun 20264 min read0 viewsJournal Feed
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- by M. V.
- Eitzel, Nick Ulle, Ryan Meyer, Ben Goldstein Measuring human interactions with protected areas is a key need in conservation social science, both to assess the potential for continuing negative impacts on sensitive resources and to support positive relationships with important places. Our paper investigates human activities in California Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) using an emerging approach of large-scale participatory data collection coupled with statistical analysis.
- Twelve organizations across the state developed, standardized, and implemented a data collection protocol for volunteers to record human activities, called “MPA Watch.” From 2012−2020, approximately 1,900 surveyors conducted more than 31,700 surveys, observing more than 1.2 million activities at 104 different sites across California’s coast, both inside and outside MPAs. We analyzed these data using generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) with zero inflation to account for sampling bias associated with volunteer-driven data.
- We included covariates regarding weather and tides; time of day, week, and year; and beach type and amenities.
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25 Jun 2026
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25 Jun 2026