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Welcome to the Billion Oyster Project (BOP) Digital Platform! The Billion Oyster Project is an ecosystem restoration and education project aimed at restoring one billion live oysters to New York Harbor and engaging hundreds of thousands of school children through restoration-based STEM education programs. Learn more about BOP here!

The BOP Digital Platform is the online dashboard for the BOP Schools and Community Science Program. Through the Platform, students and teachers collect and publish data, develop authentic field research, and create the STEM curriculum that links keystone species restoration in New York Harbor to teaching and learning in New York City Schools. Community scientists, professional scientists, and project partners also play an essential role in the BOP digital platform by collecting and publishing their own data, vetting student research, and providing field support to teachers. The platform offers a range of tools to accomplish this mission, including expedition management, field uploading, data publishing, search and download, the interactive curriculum library, student research portal, and a course calendar/registration system. The BOP Digital Platform User Guide lives here.

If you're interested in participating in our restoration and education project, click here to find out how you can join!

At BOP, we believe that open source projects are an excellent tool for environmental justice. They allow a community to collect and use data in a way that’s best for them, based on their evolving needs, in a process that emphasizes collaboration over competition. The BOP Digital Platform is an open source project, and although our technical team is small, we're striving to create a welcoming community for new contributors. We take inclusion very seriously- read our Code of Conduct for more information.

BOP's Digital Learning Specialist Heather Flanagan is the product owner for the platform- please feel free to get in touch with her to ask questions or share ideas, or submit a pull request if you'd like to contribute!