L turned me on to these people: Sound Water Stewards From their About page:
What We Do
Sound Water Stewards supports highly trained volunteers to do education, outreach, citizen science and stewardship to sustain a healthy Puget Sound environment. We have partners in and around Island County with active chapters on both Whidbey and Camano Island. Our partnerships include researchers, governments, universities, state and local parks and other nonprofit organizations that focus on work in the Salish Sea.
You need to go through 90 hours of training (cost is $150 - this is not a rip-off) and they promote "citizen science".
Considering that my first love was Marine Biology and Physical Oceanography and was what I went to college for, this is right up my alley. I dropped out for several reasons and do not regret that decision but still keep current with the research and still have an abiding love for the ocean.
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