Community Platform

Shared stories, insights, and data

Living Observatory develops and maintains a community platform built on a structured database that connects people, projects, places, and research. The platform can serve as a field notebook, a lab webpage, and a place to share project updates, and more. Together, members’ contributions create a growing archive of restoration projects and data and valuable resource for learning.

Explore the Platform

Discover and contribute

  • Projects: Members can create project webs, organized like chapters, that connect people, places, and photographs in the database to tell a project’s story. Share your project.

  • Insights: Record observations, connect evidence to people and places, and organize ideas with tags. Choose what to share or keep private, and reflect together through discussion threads. Draft an insight.

  • Photos and albums: Members can share field snapshots and photo-monitoring records that capture the arc of change.

  • Data archive: The platform supports file uploads on project pages as well as ingestion of structured data. Contact us to discuss how the platform can support your data needs.

  • Teams: Privately share data and insight threads, and collaborate on project webs. Set up a team.

  • Join: Want to set up an account? Email us at info@livingobservatory.org

 
 

 

Living Observatory Research and Reports

Our research covers a wide range of questions concerning how former cranberry farmlands respond to restoration actions. How quickly does wetland function return to soils? How does groundwater discharge change following these actions?

LO community members, and partner organizations pursue these questions through research and monitoring. We help make that knowledge easier to find and share through our community platform.

Read the 2026 Impact Report (PDF) to meet the people behind the work and explore LO’s contributions to research, technology, the Native Plant Nursery, and community learning.

Read Views from the 2026 Summit to learn about perspectives on monitoring, innovative practice, and long-term stewardship.

Read the 2020 Learning Report for a primer on cranberry bog ecology and the science of wetland restoration.
This seminal report entitled “Learning from the Restoration of Wetlands on Cranberry Farmland: Preliminary Benefits Assessment” brings together findings from early restoration projects. It offers a starting point for understanding the ecological changes researchers were observing and the potential benefits of restoration.

Browse the Latest Research & Publications
Our library of community publications grows each year. Explore scientific papers, technical reports, and other resources on water, soils, vegetation, wildlife, and the technologies used to study them.