CCR_HSIL_QAPP

The purpose of this repo is to provide a public, citable homebase for our HSIL project's Quality Assuarance Project Plan (QAPP), along with overview documents summarizing the work.

Contents

• linked here is the original 2024 QAPP, the 2025 amended QAPP, and the 2026 amended QAPP which now includes information regarding Kelp Quest on Zooniverse
• linked here are 1-pager overview documents providing a summary of this research

Citations

The 2026 amended QAPP includes information regarding Kelp Quest on Zooniverse - this reflects the most recent project development, and the QAPP is limited to the added Kelp Quest component. This amendment can be citated as follows:

@techreport{Randell_QAPP_2026,
  author       = {Randell, Zachary and Williams, Megan and Thomson, Reid and Larson, Shawn},
  title        = {Quality Assurance Project Plan: Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and scientific scuba divers: A methods comparison to optimize bull kelp conservation and restoration in Puget Sound},
  institution  = {Seattle Aquarium},
  year         = {2026},
  type         = {Quality Assurance Project Plan},
  address      = {Seattle, WA},
  note         = {Version 1.2}
}

The 2025 amended QAPP (generated as part of the yearly review) is the most up-to-date QAPP covering the full scope of the Seattle Aquarium's ROV benthic surveys. It, along with the original 2024 QAPP, can be found on Zenodo at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17064346 and can be cited as follows

@techreport{Randell_QAPP,
  author       = {Randell, Zachary and Williams, Megan and Thomson, Reid and Larson, Shawn},
  title        = {Quality Assurance Project Plan 2025 Addendum: Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) and scientific scuba divers: A methods comparison to optimize bull kelp conservation and restoration in Puget Sound},
  institution  = {Seattle Aquarium},
  year         = {2025},
  month        = {May},
  type         = {Quality Assurance Project Plan},
  address      = {Seattle, WA},
  pages        = {1--33}
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.17064346},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17064346}
}