Medmerry Breach Photo Point
You can now take part in a project that is both citizen art and citizen science by contributing mobile phone photos of the ever changing Medmerry Breach. This is not only an art project but also an essential part of CHASM as we look more closely at factors affecting the coastal marine environment.
Part of Culture Spark, an art project administered by Chichester District Council, visitors to RSPB Medmerry are invited to take photos at a fixed photo point overlooking the Medmerry breach, and uploading them to an online storage facility through which they can be observed and downloaded.
The objective of Culture Spark is to create an online observatory of the ever changing face of the Medmerry Breach. The additional advantage is that this citizen science project is also charting the change in the Medmerry foreshore for use by coastal managers, the RSPB, and coastal change scientists.
Follow this link to access the images taken at the Medmerry Breach photo point
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