Observe In Place
Photograph and record traces before touching, moving, cleaning, or collecting anything.
ESTABLISHING UPLINK
Habitat context, contamination control, living-system restraint, and database-backed upload authority.
Ecological custody treats the scene as a living relationship, not a pile of objects. Habitat, weather, nearby organisms, human disturbance, time, and media provenance all remain part of the record.
Photograph and record traces before touching, moving, cleaning, or collecting anything.
Qualified review comes before biological claims, sampling, or public certainty.
The final upload gate unlocks only when Standard ARCC and Biological Integrity certs exist in the database.