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CLEAR guidelines for designing equitable scientific tools
When we design scientific instruments, we think of about users that are scientists with degrees in well-funded institutions, but also rural Newfoundlanders, who also have research questions and a right to answer them. To this end, we have several guidelines for how we design and build our tools.
DIY Microscopes
A list of different do-it-yourself microscope designs!
LADI Trawl
The LADI trawl is an open source, scientific surface trawl for monitoring marine plastics. You can build your own for $500 or less.
Ice Cream Scoop
To address the problems of marine plastics and public science, we created an educational tool geared towards children: the Ice Cream Scoop Trawl.
Plastic Entanglement Trap (P.E.T.)
The P.E.T. is a do-it-yourself ocean plastic monitoring device based on filtering plastics through a mesh bag containing textured balls constructed out of materials easily found in household settings.
Marine Debris Tracker
Your can use beach clean ups to create data about local marine macroplastics. This protocol uses the Marine Debris Tracker so data goes into a public data set that scientists can use.
Sandy Beach Surveys
Beach surveys give valuable information as to the types, quantities, and even sources of marine plastics floating at sea.
