Residents: Take the Citizen Scientist Survey

The Key Biscayne Community Foundation (KBCF) has received funding from the Knight Foundation, the Village of Key Biscayne, the KBCF and the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science to provide Island residents with information on the wealth of natural resources of the Key. The information will be obtained by Citizen and Professional Scientists and be freely available and continuously updated on a web site under development. Our goal is to secure a future Key Biscayne characterized by the same bounty of natural resources that exist today, thus maintaining the title of "Island Paradise".

The Citizen Scientist Project will begin with distribution of a survey to be completed by Key Biscayne residents to determine their uses of and attitudes, perceptions and beliefs concerning the areas natural resources. The success of the survey will obviously depend on a large response from recipients. The full survey effort will last six weeks, and as part of the Internet survey, respondents will be directed to www.keyscience.org, an environmental portal, which will serve to educate the respondents on some of the regions natural resources. The results from the survey will be placed in a database and analyzed as noted above to determine resident ideas on the uses of and attitudes, perceptions and beliefs concerning the natural resources of Key Biscayne.

It is worth repeating that the success of the Citizen Scientist Project is critically dependent on sufficient results from the survey to define the most critical of the Key's natural resources, gaps in our understanding of these resources and methods to fill these gaps.

The survey is available in English and Spanish at the following sites:

English version: http://survey.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_aaC0YObf8L5COPz

Spanish version: http://survey.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3lnRbfXr4MPA95r

Once again, PLEASE TAKE THE SURVEY.