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here in Pacifica erosion is eating away at California's coastline to study the rising sea levels from El Nino scientists of turning to crowdsource drone and smartphone imagery from photographers like Eric Chang Eric the Nature Conservancy's El Nino coastal monitoring program is a citizen science project that leverages volunteers like like me and other drone enthusiasts to go map the coastline so that we can generate interesting information in anticipation of rising sea levels so let's take off the drain see what we can stick on the Pacifica for five all right great so the drone is just over there we're gonna launch and I'll I'll do a quick lap before we fly out there pretty cool to see a droid in 360 yeah there we go there we go so we're at high tide at the moment the best time to be doing any sort of mapping specifically for this program it's the best time because there the program is interested in when water encroaches upon urban environments or on people so anyone who owns the drone wants to get involved with the project where can I find out more now go to nature org slash El Nino and it will tell you how to use your drone or use your phone to capture imagery that the nature conservancy to use great let's take a quick journey during selfie there we go ready yeah I bring in a really close one - great love it thanks Eric you're welcome