Community science

Environmental programs

• Oregon Forest Pest Detector: Oregon Forest Pest Detectors volunteer to help prevent the damaging impacts of invasive forest pests by monitoring for and reporting potential infestations. Volunteers are are important in early detection and rapid response of control efforts.
• Master Woodland Manager: The Master Woodland Manager training is a master's level course for landowners who are interested in an intensive forest management training and sharing the knowledge gained through this training with people in their local communities. Graduates of the program have been serving Oregon for 40 years.
• Oregon Naturalist: The Oregon Naturalist Program is for people interested in Oregon’s natural history and natural resources management who want to dedicate their time as volunteers. Take courses online and on-location in Oregon’s beautiful outdoors.
• Oregon Season Tracker: Oregon Season Tracker aims to link natural resource managers, educators, researchers and others through collaborative community science. We seek to understand weather patterns and how plants and other living things in our ecosystem respond and adapt across diverse Oregon landscapes.
• Oregon Environmental Literacy Program (in English): The Oregon Environmental Literacy Program supports K-12 teachers in collaboration with non-formal educators to foster environmental literacy by engaging students in activities and experiences that increase their awareness, understanding and knowledge of the environment and their relationship to it.

Gardening and Pollinator programs

• Bee Steward Program: Do you want to help pollinators on your farm, managed forest, rangeland, golf-course or community garden? The Bee Steward Program enhances bee habitat across the state by offering practical training on how to build, maintain and establish pollinator habitat.
• Oregon Master Beekeeper Program: Are you curious about bees and how to keep them? Are you interested in learning how to become a better beekeeper? Do you want to help others learn about bees? Bee informed with the Oregon Master Beekeeper Program!
• Master Gardener™: A program that educates Oregonians about the art and science of growing and caring for plants. This program also facilitates the training of a highly educated group of volunteers. These volunteers extend sustainable gardening information to their communities through education and outreach programs.
• Master Melittologist Program: Although we estimate there are several hundred species of bees in Oregon, the Master Melittologist Program trains citizen scientists to both collect and curate specimens of native bees and their floral associations, which has led to countless discoveries.

Featured resources

Credit: Alyson Yates (Cropped from original)

iNaturalist.org (in English)

People from around the world use this site (and its associated app) to record the organisms that live around them. On the website, you can explore maps of observations, including learning about the organisms people are observing in your area!

Oct 2024 | Online resource

2023-24 Oregon Coast Quests Book (in English)

This new edition contains 30 Quests along the Oregon coast, including four that are completely new to the book.

Jul 2023 | OSU Sea Grant Publication

Careers in Science Webinar Series 2020 (in English)

This series of webinars is for students in grades 6-12 who want to explore careers in marine science.

Jun 2020 | OSU Sea Grant Publication

Volunteer program and renovation at science center (in English)

This video walks viewers through the upgrades made to the Hatfield Visitor Center in Newport, Oregon.

Jun 2020 | OSU Sea Grant Publication