Layal Liverpool
LEANING over the water’s edge, I spot what I am looking for. I take out my tweezers and tug, pulling off a small piece of algae and transferring it into a plastic tube. I top my sample off with a few drops of pond water, squeezed up through a little pipette.
I am one of a growing number of international volunteers helping to monitor the health of the environment by sampling diverse aquatic ecosystems through the Algal Bloom Monitoring project, a citizen science initiative run by the US-based Open Field Collective (OFC).
Before I head home, I snap a…
