Backyard Buoys is highlighted in The Arctic Sounder. The article spotlights subsistence hunter John Hopson, who deployed several Spotter buoys in the coastal waters off Wainwright, Alaska. Hopson and his peers — along with communities in the Pacific Northwest, the Pacific Islands, and elsewhere in Alaska — access the data collected by their Spotters via an app and use it to ensure that ocean conditions are safe enough to hunt and fish.