A community-based program in Kachemak Bay that can be adapted for other coastal communities or for RiverWalks. Students join or organize other citizen volunteers to adopt a section of a shoreline and walk it annually, surveying changes, collecting data on marine life and human impacts, and cleaning up beach litter and marine debris. The beach survey form and biodiversity checklist for Kachemak Bay Center plus the International Coastal Cleanup data form can be downloaded. Center for Alaskan Coastal Studies.
