COASST Alaska Beached Bird Data, September 2007-June 2009, Parrish, JK

COASST Alaska Beached Bird Data include beached bird data from the Coastal Observation and Seabird Survey Team (COASST). COASST is a citizen
science program in coastal Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California that trains people living in coastal communities to gather highly rigorous and
independently verifiable data on beach-cast birds, human use of beaches, and beach oiling. Started in 1998, COASST now supports more than 500 volunteers
monitoring over 300 coastal sites. In this project, COASST was maintained in six communities in Alaska (St. Paul, St. George, Cold Bay, Seward,
Homer, Sitka) and extended to six more (Dillingham, Kodiak, Juneau, Ketchikan, Unalaska, Kenai), with the goal of comparing the initial patterns
of data from Alaska to those from similar programs in the lower 48. Between September 2007 and June 2009, COASST conducted 14 training sessions,
established relationships with 16 partner organizations, and recruited more than 100 participants to survey 53 year-round and 19 seasonal beaches.
Within the same time period, 733 surveys were collected and include records on 259 carcasses. These datasets were archived as part of the North Pacific Research Board legacy project recovery effort undertaken by Axiom Data Science and NPRB in 2025. The goal of the recovery effort was to assess the NPRB-funded data projects from 2002 to 2014 and archive final data packages that were ready for publication to increase long-term accessibility and discoverability. Data packages were archived as is given limited funding and resources.