Ryan Flagg manages ONC’s Community Based Monitoring team, whose work is closely linked to the Indigenous Engagement, Post-Secondary Education, and K-12 Education teams.  He is responsible for working with several teams at ONC to manage three national programs: Community Fishers, Community Observatories, and Marine Domain Awareness. Ryan helps coordinate and deliver in-person/field-work and remote support of partners, projects and community-based monitoring infrastructure. The work of the Community Based Monitoring team is achieved through the ongoing development of national programs, the co-design and implementation of short and long term projects, assisting in funding applications, delivery of expert training and technical advice, facilitation of workshops and desktop studies, acquisition of instrumentation and support hardware, coordination of sampling logistics, and interpretation and reporting of data.