If you see this purple card floating in the water, here’s what to do
How ‘citizen scientists’ can help track trash with the latest Lake Worth Lagoon Drift Card Study.Calling all visitors to Palm Beach County’s waterways: Be on the lookout for hundreds of floating purple cards.
If you find one, you’ve stumbled onto a research mission involving citizen scientists and a study of how debris moves through inland waterways and accumulates on the coastline.
The 15th Lake Worth Lagoon Drift Card Study kicked off May 1 when volunteers deployed 320 bright purple cards made of thin biodegradable wood at eight different sites in Palm Beach County — from Burt Reynolds Park in Jupiter to Silver Palms Park in Boca Raton.
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