Science and Research committee  Yes. We're similar in that a lot of our work can be done individually. We have had a lot training programs in the past to help train volunteers, but we had to shut that down for the last two and a half years. We're just getting started up again this year with some of our work. We were pretty much shut down for the last two or three years, except for a couple of volunteers who were willing to work on their own doing acoustic bat surveys and salamander monitoring.

Science and Research committee  For our group, we follow standard protocols. We use OSAP as a base to collect standardized fisheries, channel data and thermal data from the stream. For forests, we'll do EMAN or salamander plots to look at the biodiversity of the forest and salamander population. We'll then do other formalized standard protocols for other tentative ecological research.

Science and Research committee  Thank you for the chance to address the committee. I'm going to talk about our group a little bit and our experience with the role of citizen science. We're definitely on a different scale than the last group you talked to. We're a small NGO in the east end of Toronto. We operate in what's now the Rouge Urban National Park.