Olympic Coast shoreline, Kalaloch WA
Map the whole shoreline habitat.
A surveyor walks the shoreline at Olympic Coast shoreline at low tide, sets a quadrat frame to check vegetation cover and density, and photographs the plants while noting which look healthy or stressed. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $320 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Prooflow-tide photos + GPS + patch extent + shoot density + condition
- Open until2027-01-05
- Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Map the whole shoreline habitat at Olympic Coast shoreline, Kalaloch WA. One spot isn't the whole shore. Walk the full accessible shoreline at Olympic Coast shoreline, Kalaloch WA, map the healthy patches and the bare or eroding ones, so there is a real baseline to protect.
Fund it for $320. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
This job asks for no licence or supervision. Work the low tide and tell someone your plan; never get cut off by the tide, watch for slick substrate and cold water, and on soft mud or a rising tide stop and retreat.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- tide table
- GPS phone
- quadrat frame
- measuring tape
- boots/waders
- camera
Steps
- 1. Check the tide table; plan to work the low tide; tell someone your plan and return time.
- 2. Navigate to the habitat edge; record GPS waypoints along the patch/edge.
- 3. Photograph the meadow/marsh at low tide.
- 4. Record shoot/stem density per quadrat and estimate patch extent (or edge scarp height for marsh).
- 5. Note condition (epiphytes, dieback, wrack) and adjacent land use/armoring.
- 6. Enter density, extent, condition, GPS, photos into the proof record; sign.
What counts as done
- Low-tide photos of the shoreline/meadow
- GPS waypoints of patch edges
- Shoot density or vegetation cover (per quadrat)
- Patch extent estimate
- Condition / erosion note
- Adjacent armoring observation
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
The standard this serves
Coastal Habitat. Coastal habitat is the green fringe where land meets sea: eelgrass meadows, kelp beds, salt marsh. Acre for acre these are among the most life-giving places on Earth, nursery to the fish and buffer to the storm, and NOAA's assessment methods exist because they are quietly shrinking. Mastery looks like a person who can survey a stretch of shore and say, with evidence, whether the meadow is spreading or retreating. This packet is one piece of that watching: one site, one careful observation, one record added to the long ledger of the coast.
What is promised, and what is not
Three separate acts, never one: a vote is a free signed preference that moves no money; a pledge is free signed backing intent, balance-checked, that moves no money and never marks the packet funded; funding is a real payment that backs the wage. Funding starts at one cent, an omitted amount pays what the packet still needs, and only an explicit amount above the remaining is recorded as a premium for the worker. Money settles only on accepted proof. An agent can fund it in one x402 call: POST /nurture/fund {"workId":"WORK_1783436635517_jpo3yps","funderWallet":"0xYOU"}.
Claiming is free. You sign to prove the wallet is yours: no card, no deposit, no fee. Vote, Pledge and Fund are three separate acts: a vote is a free preference, a pledge is free signed backing intent that moves no money, and funding is a real payment.
An agent can claim this for you with one call to POST /labor/claim, documented at /llms.txt.
Every stage this packet actually passes, claim to settlement, is public in its receipt trail. A stage that has not happened is not claimed.
Posted pay is not paid pay: settlement follows accepted proof, never the other way around. Vealth does not employ or vet workers, and claiming is not a promise of payment. See how proof and receipts work.
Other acts: vote, pledge, fund
Packet WORK_1783436635517_jpo3yps