The Natural History Museum has a citizen science project called the Big Seaweed Search running.
Understanding more about them is critical to protecting marine environments. Seaweed creates habitat where fish, invertebrates, birds, and marine mammals find food and shelter.
We know comparatively little about the abundance and distribution of seaweed species. So it is important to record them and monitor how they change over time.
Your observations will give us a better picture of how seaweeds are affected by:rising sea temperature
the arrival and spread of non-native species of seaweed
ocean acidification (the sea becoming more acidic as a result of absorbing carbon dioxide from the air)
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