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Welcome to the program. Your enrolment gives you access to everything below for twelve months. There are no modules to complete, no deadlines, no progress bars. The program runs at your pace — driven by field visits and conversations with Gazza.

Gazza reads your Shoreline Watch records before every session. He updates your lesson plan after every interview. The cycle is: talk to Gazza → get your plan → prepare for the field (tide, equipment, focus) → carry out the plan at the bay with Shoreline Watch → return to Gazza for a debrief. Repeat until the evidence supports field certification.

What enrolment includes
✓Two-day field camp — Jacobs Well EEC, research vessel, Moreton Bay. Late July / August 2026.
✓Gazza — 12 months, expert mode — reads your records before every session, updates your plan after.
✓Your personal lesson plan — built from your first interview, updated from every session after.
✓Shoreline Watch and RMTools — Shoreline Watch from day one. RMTools when Gazza says you're ready.
✓The Waterline Scripts — six conversation frameworks for public interpretation at the site.
✓Field certification — when Gazza's assessment and your field record support it.

Questions at any time: steward@forshorebirds.org · Your first step is below.

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Start here.

Your plan doesn't exist yet. Gazza builds it from a conversation — your interview is the first step.

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Talk to Gazza Ten questions. Gazza maps where you are — your ecological literacy, your field experience, what draws you to the bay. From that conversation he builds your personal lesson plan.
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Get your plan After the interview, Gazza writes your plan — your starting stage (Reader, Interpreter, or Ambassador), three to five focus areas, and what to do at the bay next. It lives on this page.
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Prepare, then go to the bay — with Shoreline Watch Before you go: review your focus areas, check the tide table (aim for 2 hours either side of high tide), confirm your binoculars are adjusted and Shoreline Watch is loaded. At the site: spend the first minutes watching before recording — get your eye in. Then work through what Gazza has set you. Every observation is a record. Every record is data. Gazza reads it before your next session.
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Return to Gazza — your records travel with him Before you arrive, Gazza has read your Shoreline Watch records. He knows what you counted, what you logged, what the data shows. The conversation begins from there — not from scratch. Your plan updates. The cycle continues at your pace.

No schedule. No fixed pace. When you have prepared, been to the bay, and have observations behind you — Gazza is here. He will have read your records.

Start your interview with Gazza →
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Field Camp

Two days at Jacobs Well EEC — research vessel, Moreton Bay, supervised assessment. Target: Late July / August 2026. Details will be sent by email as the date approaches. Your Gazza relationship starts now — camp timing is independent.

Your current stage
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Plan — · Updated —
Talk to Gazza → Shoreline Watch
Gazza's assessment
Your assessment will appear here after your first interview with Gazza.
Gazza · Bar-tailed Godwit · AI Mentor ·
What to focus on now — 0 priorities
Your field record
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Bay visits
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Gazza sessions
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Species recorded
Gazza's notes from your last session
Notes will appear here after your first interview.
What comes next Carry out your study plan. Open Shoreline Watch at the site and log what you observe. Come back to Gazza when you have visits recorded.
Talk to Gazza → Shoreline Watch Reading
Unlocked by Gazza
RMTools — Roost Management Assessment
Structured site assessment. Gazza determined your field literacy is ready for this instrument.
Open RMTools →
Conversations With Birds