This film was a little different than what they’d done before… they had to gut more fish, for one. Read more on how participatory filmmaking with CLEAR works…
Category: Projects
Teaching kits for DIY marine plastic research (grades 7-12)
CLEAR and Let’s Talk Science have created guides on how to build and use marine plastic research devices in classrooms from grade 7-12.
Citizen science collection of beached fish tags
Scientists believe that plastics are moving from the ocean around Newfoundland, Canada, to the coasts of Scotland. You can create scientific data by collecting and logging data when you find the kind of fishing tags shown here.
Surface plastics at Holyrood, NL
We found an average of just over one pieces of plastic per square km around Holyrood, Newfoundland.
Indigneous Feminist Animal Ethics in Science: Protocols in Relation
While universities have animal ethics, the values university ethics are based upon are not necessarily Indigenous or feminist values, such as equity, humility, respect, or sovereignty…
Plastics in cod: 2016 food fishery
Data on plastics found in cod during the 2016 food fishery on the Avalon Peninsula. Data updated regularly.
How to collect guts for science
How to collect guts for science CLEAR collects fish, bird, and seal guts in Newfoundland and Labrador to see whether … More
One of the world’s lowest plastic ingestion rates in Newfoundland cod: 2.4%
The first recorded results of plastic ingestion of food fish in Newfoundland.
Classification of marine debris by citizen scientists
This project tests three different ways of classifying marine waste to determine how different methods of affect dimensions of data quality and highlight different areas of common knowledge and concern for citizen scientists.
Fish Guts!
Are your fish eating plastic? We want to find out! We will be collecting fish guts during Newfoundland’s food fishery this summer (2015) to see if fish are ingesting plastics in this area.
