TITLE: Mo&#39;orea Coastal Use Monitoring  Protocol
AUTHORS: Ellis Gelt, Grace Sandel, Kiran Bengard, Laura Barragan, slicata, Ellinor Arzbaecher, jparadise, Juliet Capriola

[DESCRIPTION]
This procedure is used for costal monitoring and has been tested along the majority of the coast of Mo'orea, French Polynesia; completed by UC Berkeley's Island Sustainability classes. This protocol includes steps to collect observation data regarding birds, costal armoring, and boats, along shoreline transects. 

[BEFORE_START]
- Wear attire appropriate for constant re-entry into the water.
- Check that a working seconds stopwatch is present..



[GUIDELINES]
- Do not trample coral.
- Do not walk through private property, unless you have explicit authorization.
- Write observations in a field notebook.
- Take pictures to document your transect.
- Try interacting with people as soon as possible and explaining what you are doing/getting feedback.

[STEPS]
SECTION: GAIA GPS Tracking
1. Have two team-members start a track on GAIA GPS. Make sure both members have full battery.
SECTION: Birds
4. When you see a bird, record the number and identify whether the bird(s) is an egret or heron. Refer to the bird ID sheet, linked here.
SECTION: Birds
5. Record the timestamp at the time you spotted the bird.
SECTION: Coastal Monitoring
6. Start time-stamp as soon as the coastal profile changes or as soon as you are no longer able to monitor.
SECTION: Boats
10. Walking along the shore, take a timestamp of any boats, canoes, jet skis, or other vessels on the water that are visible to you. Record under Time-Stamp using military time up to the millisecond.
SECTION: Water Outlets
17. Walking along the shore or as close to the shore as possible, write down the timestamp of every water outlet walked by.
SECTION: Water Outlets
18. Try estimating the width of the outlet (in feet or meters. Write down the estimate.
SECTION: Final Steps
20. At the end of the day, take a picture of your notebooks before data entry.
3. When done tracking, save and export the track as a .gpx file.
SECTION: GAIA GPS Tracking
2. After starting track recording, with the GAIA-App take a picture of the group’s hand-watch with seconds showing on the hand-watch (will help make sure time on watch and GPS time are synced).

SECTION: Coastal Monitoring
7. Record the coast types on the data sheet using the following categories: unArmored (no apparent human-made alteration), armRocks (armored coast w/ piles of rocks/stones), armSeaWall (armored coast cement/concrete wall), and armOther (other category of armored coast). When you encounter a perpendicular structure (dock/over-water bungalow/stone alignment), record a time-stamp and the type of perpendicular structure on the data sheet.
SECTION: Coastal Monitoring
8. Estimate the distance in meters from the coastal armoring to the shoreline and record on the data sheet.
SECTION: Boats
11. If a fishing vessel, ID each vessel as one of the following under fisherBoat: outrigger, motorboat, swim on-foot. Leave this section blank if not a fishing vessel.
SECTION: Coastal Monitoring
9. Start a time-stamp if backtracking or if you left the coast and make note.
SECTION: Boats
12. If applicable, note the type of fishing gear under fisherGear: spear, line, or net.
SECTION: Water Outlets
19. Mark if the water outlet is flowing and any other relevant observations about it.
SECTION: Boats
13. Under fisherN, record the number of fishermen in the crew if applicable.
SECTION: Boats
14. Under vesselType, regardless of if the vessel is for fishing, ID the vessel from the following categories: closed-cabin motorboat, opened-cabin motorboat, tourist-operator motorboat, sailboat, jet-ski [indicate number of jet skis in ()].
SECTION: Boats
15. Under anch-navigating, indicate whether the vessel (regardless of if it is fishing), is anchoring or navigating.
SECTION: Boats
16. Repeat for each new vessel spotted. Use a single entry for each vessel unless it is a group of jet skis which pass at the same timestamp. Indicate if you cannot see the gear in the fishing boat.