{"id":836413,"date":"2026-03-19T14:51:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/836413\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:51:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:51:17","slug":"watch-the-growing-citizen-science-movement-collecting-data-to-help-monitor-thames-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/836413\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: The growing citizen science movement collecting data to help monitor Thames health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A growing citizen science movement is helping to monitor river pollution by tracking litter across sites between Hammersmith and the Isle of Dogs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thames21.org.uk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thames 21<\/a> volunteer initiative \u2018River Litter Detectives\u2019 trains local residents to record waste on the foreshore \u2013 categorising litter into sewage-derived litter, plastic items, and other types of litter.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme coincides with the charity recently launching their \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thames21.org.uk\/citizen-science-dashboard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Citizen Science Dashboard<\/a>\u2019 to help monitor the health of the river across London and the Thames Basin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thames 21 Communications Manager Liz Gyeke said: \u201cWe welcome everybody to come down to the foreshore to take care of their environment and to work with us to get people-powered data so we can use this data to make changes for the better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new online dashboard currently holds more than 8,000 water quality samples and 2,000 riverfly surveys \u2013 making it one of the most complete citizen science tools in the UK.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A growing citizen science movement is helping to monitor river pollution by tracking litter across sites between Hammersmith&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[239713,239714,239715,239716,748,393,4884,36583,257,16,15],"class_list":["post-836413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-riverpollution","tag-riverthames","tag-thames21","tag-wetwipeisland","tag-britain","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-hammersmith","tag-london","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116256406619640491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}