ARPHA Proceedings 6: 79-82, doi: 10.3897/ap.e126459

"Get on board with researchers": Life Conceptu Maris marine citizen science campaign

Loredana Mulas^‡, Elena Santini^§, Marta Azzolin^|¶#, Mauro Buonocore^¤, Ilaria Campana, Lara Carosso^‡, Giovanni Coppini^«, Matteo Costantino^#|, Léa David^», Marianna Farina^˄, Livio Favaro^|˄, Natalia Fraija-Fernández^˅, Marco Gamba^|, Maria Leonor Garcia Gutiérrez^‡, Cristina Giacoma^|, Martina Gregorietti^¦ˀ, Rita Lecci^«, Giulia Luzi^ˁ, Fulvio Maffucci^˄, Francesco Paolo Mancuso^¦ˀ, Valeria Masala^‡, Erica Moura^˄, Eugenia Pasanisi^§, Juan Antonio Raga^˅, Selvaggia Santin^«, Gianluca Sarà^¦ˀ, Antonella Servidio^ˁ, Paola Tepsich^₵, Francesco Tomasinelli^ˁ, Gianluca Treglia^˄, Roberta Teti^˄, Elena Valsecchi^ℓ, Morgana Vighi^˅, Antonella Arcangeli^§

‡ Marine Protected Area of Capo Carbonara, Villasimius, Italy§ ISPRA – Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Rome, Italy| University of Turin, Turin, Italy¶ CIRCE, Centro interuniversitario per la ricerca sui cetacei, Genova, Italy# Gaia Research Institute Onlus, Turin, Italy¤ CMCC - Centro Euro-mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Lecce, Italy« CMCC – Centro Euro-mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Lecce, Italy» EOI - Eco Ocean Institut, Montpellier, France˄ Italian National Institute for Marine Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology, Napoli, Italy˅ University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain¦ University of Palermo, Palermo, Italyˀ N.B.F.C., National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italyˁ Triton Research, Napoli, Italy₵ CIMA Research Foundation, Savona, Italyℓ University of Milan Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Corresponding author: Loredana Mulas ( areamarinavillasimius@gmail.com )

Corresponding author: Elena Santini ( elena.santini@isprambiente.it )

© Loredana Mulas, Elena Santini, Marta Azzolin, Mauro Buonocore, Ilaria Campana, Lara Carosso, Giovanni Coppini, Matteo Costantino, Léa David, Marianna Farina, Livio Favaro, Natalia Fraija-Fernández, Marco Gamba, Maria Leonor Garcia Gutiérrez, Cristina Giacoma, Martina Gregorietti, Rita Lecci, Giulia Luzi, Fulvio Maffucci, Francesco Paolo Mancuso, Valeria Masala, Erica Moura, Eugenia Pasanisi, Juan Antonio Raga, Selvaggia Santin, Gianluca Sarà, Antonella Servidio, Paola Tepsich, Francesco Tomasinelli, Gianluca Treglia, Roberta Teti, Elena Valsecchi, Morgana Vighi, Antonella Arcangeli.

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Citation: Mulas L, Santini E, Azzolin M, Buonocore M, Campana I, Carosso L, Coppini G, Costantino M, David L, Farina M, Favaro L, Fraija-Fernández N, Gamba M, Garcia Gutiérrez ML, Giacoma C, Gregorietti M, Lecci R, Luzi G, Maffucci F, Mancuso FP, Masala V, Moura E, Pasanisi E, Raga JA, Santin S, Sarà G, Servidio A, Tepsich P, Tomasinelli F, Treglia G, Teti R, Valsecchi E, Vighi M, Arcangeli A (2024) "Get on board with researchers": Life Conceptu Maris marine citizen science campaign. ARPHA Proceedings 6: 79-82. https://doi.org/10.3897/ap.e126459

Abstract

The manuscript provides an overview of the mid-term results of the citizen science campaign activities conducted within the Life CONCEPTU MARIS project (LIFE20 NAT/IT/001371) whose aim is to improve the conservation status of cetaceans and pelagic sea turtles by addressing information gaps, setting up an internationally agreed-upon approach for surveillance, and identifying appropriate conservation measures. It fosters a cooperative effort by engaging the scientific community, stakeholders, policy makers and citizens in a common effort to support biodiversity.

Keywords

awareness, biodiversity, cetaceans, ferries, Habitat Directive, marine ecosystem, monitoring, sea turtle