The idea around our citizen science network is that we first generate interest. That might be through social media, website usage, or approaching the groups that already have these types of folks in there, naturalist groups and things like that.
Once we have an interest and people wanting to learn more, we hold specific training workshops in these communities where people are trying to set up these networks. We have champions in these communities who spearhead this type of thing. We might go in and do training specifically on aquatic invasive species or terrestrial invasive species, or a combination. Then those people are trained on identification.
These people are out in nature anyway. They already have their cameras and they're going out for their own enjoyment. If they happen to stumble upon an invasive species that has never been identified in that region, then we promote a tool for them to report that. There are tools in place. We would like to see a national tool for that.