Underwater Forests survey

If you've conducted your monthly survey, please fill in the details on the form below.

Guidance

Please fill in the details you collected for the overall site and the first three quadrats - the fourth quadrat is optional.
The photo uploads for the whole site and the first three quadrats are mandatory (there's a bug in the form that shows them as optional).

Contact us

If you have any queries about the survey, please contact the Community Science team at communityscience@nhm.ac.uk with 'Coastal Health' in your subject line.

About you and your group panel

About you and your group

Your first name *

Your last name *

How many people took part in collecting this survey (including you)? *

If you clicked 'Other' please tell us the name of your survey location - Optional

About your survey panel

About your survey

Survey date *

Survey start time (use 24-hour format eg 09:12, 14:45) *

Survey end time (use 24-hour format eg 09:12, 14:45) *

Site location

Where did you take your survey? You can use the address lookup box, the ‘get my current location’ button or drag and drop the red marker on the map to generate the latitude and longitude.

Find your survey location

Use the address lookup, map or 'get my current location' button to generate latitude and longitude

Geolocation is not supported by this browser.

Please upload your photo of the whole site *Browse to find file (max file size: 6MB)No files selected

Quadrat observations panel

Quadrat observations

Quadrat one (Q1)

How many kelps were present in the first quadrat? *

What was the length of the longest kelp strand in Q1, in cm? *

Please upload your photo of the first quadrat site. (Check the quadrat number label is clearly visible in the image you choose.) *Browse to find file (max file size: 6MB)No files selected

What were the latitude and longitude co-ordinates of the first quadrat?

Latitude Q1 *

Longitude Q1 *

Quadrat two (Q2)

How many kelps were present in the second quadrat? *

What was the length of the longest kelp strand in Q2, in cm? *

Please upload your photo of the second quadrat site. (Check the quadrat number label is clearly visible in the image you choose.) *Browse to find file (max file size: 6MB)No files selected

Latitude Q2 *

Longitude Q2 *

Quadrat three (Q3)

How many kelps were present in the third quadrat? *

What was the length of the longest kelp strand in Q3, in cm? *

Please upload your photo of the third quadrat site. (Check the quadrat number label is clearly visible in the image you choose.) *Browse to find file (max file size: 6MB)No files selected

Latitude Q3 *

Longitude Q3 *

Quadrat four (Q4) (this quadrat is optional to complete)

How many kelps were present in the fourth quadrat? - Optional

What was the length of the longest kelp strand in Q4, in cm? - Optional

Please upload your photo of the fouth quadrat site. (Check the quadrat number label is clearly visible in the image you choose.) - OptionalBrowse to find file (max file size: 6MB)No files selected

Latitude Q4 - Optional

Longitude Q4 - Optional

Total number of kelp strands

Please enter the sum total of strands you found in all quadrats *

Your questions panel

Your questions or comments

Do you have any comments or questions? - Optional

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