SandSnap is an app created to help scientists create a sand grain database and educate the next generation about coastal processes.
Science is fascinating and increasingly there are opportunities for ordinary citizens and students to engage. At a recent meeting focused on Engineering With Nature solutions, I struck up a conversation with Dr. Brian McFall who is a scientist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Coastal & Hydraulics Laboratory and Engineer Research and Development Center . He mentioned his involvement in a project called SandSnap.
McFall told me, “The goal for SandSnap is to amass a nationwide beach grain size database by engaging citizen scientists and educate the next generation about coastal processes.” It is a pretty simple process since most of us walk around with smartphones these days. Citizen scientists simply take a picture of sand at a beach with a U.S. coin and then upload it to the. The phone’s built in GPS system will pin the specific location.
Before answering that question, some context is appropriate. McFall wrote in an email, “There is a nationwide understanding of our beach's shape from airbornethat has been captured multiple times, and there is a good understanding of the waves and tidal forcing acting on our beaches using the extensive network of wave and tide gauges around our coasts, but there is no nationwide beach grain size database.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers distributes sand along the beach on January 14, 2020 in Miami Beach, Florida. The project is part of a $16 million dollar project funded by the federal government to use a total of 61,000 tons of sand to widen the beaches in an effort to fight erosion and protect properties from storm surges.
is trained to estimate beach sand grain size using a U.S. coin as a scale of reference. You can even see image submissions and extracted grain size data on the SandSnap web application thanks to cloud-based storage technology.
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