Diario del proyecto Socially Distant Bioblitz (4/5/2020)

16 de octubre de 2020

Last Socially Distant Bioblitz this Sunday!

It is hard to believe, but our 10th and final Socially Distant Bioblitz is this Sunday, 18 October 2020! With only one event left, we are just 7,000 observations shy of reaching our goal of 100,000 observations. To help us achieve this, we encourage everyone to recruit 2 people to participate in Sunday’s bioblitz. Extra credit if they are new to iNaturalist!

Within the 93,008 observations collected so far from 73 countries, we’ve found some beautiful plants and charismatic animals, both common and globally rare species, and even a few new species records for iNaturalist! 13,528 species in all! It may be a challenge, but can we find 472 additional species on Sunday to reach an even 14,000?

We hope to "see" you there!

Publicado el 16 de octubre de 2020 por slamonde slamonde | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

16 de julio de 2020

More Socially Distant Bioblitzes added!

Mark your calendars! Due to requests for more Socially Distant Bioblitz events, three more events have been added (every 3 weeks on Sunday) to the Socially Distant Bioblitz Series:

26 July 2020
16 August 2020
6 September 2020

While many countries are transitioning from quarantine to modified normalcy, others are still struggling with outbreaks of Covid-19. Regardless of your region’s social distancing policies (if any are in place), all are welcome to contribute observations to these projects. Click on the links above to join a project, and all your observations on the project day(s) will be automatically added.

Looking forward to exploring more of Earth’s biodiversity with you!

Publicado el 16 de julio de 2020 por slamonde slamonde | 9 comentarios | Deja un comentario

01 de mayo de 2020

Reminder: Next SDB on 3 May

This is a friendly reminder that the next Socially Distant Bioblitz (SDB) is taking place this Sunday, May 3rd! if you would like to contribute your observations, simply click "JOIN" in the top-right corner of the project page: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/socially-distant-bioblitz-5-3-2020

We are still shy of our goal of 500 project members, so please share this event with your family, friends, colleagues, and communities, regardless of their iNaturalist experience. An estimated 20% of participants in the previous SDB were new iNaturalist users, and we would like to keep this trend going!

Publicado el 01 de mayo de 2020 por slamonde slamonde | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

12 de abril de 2020

Next Socially Distant Bioblitz: May 3rd

Hello, everyone,

Our next Socially Distant Bioblitz (SDB) has been planned for May 3, and we would love to have you join us again (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/socially-distant-bioblitz-5-3-2020)! We are trying a new, simplified sign-up process, where all participants need to do is click "join" in the top-right of the project page (link above). Once again, the May SDB will function as a collection project, so once you join the project all of your observations on May 3 will automatically be added to the project. There is no need to manually add each observation.

Also, for those of you who filled out our post-bioblitz survey, thank you! Based on your feedback, we have elected to repeat the SDB every 3 weeks, beginning May 3. These recurring bioblitz events will be tracked via the new SDB umbrella project (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/socially-distant-bioblitz-series).

Our goal for the May 3 SDB is to reach >500 observers and >35 countries! We will need your help to accomplish these goals, and we encourage everyone to spread the word to family, friends, colleagues, and communities. If you would like to share this event on Facebook, here is a link to the event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/225011655514202/

Questions about the May 3 event, SDB series, or sign-ups can be directed to myself (@slamonde), Sara (@slob973), or Michael (@mnerrie). We look forward to bio-blitzing with you again!

Publicado el 12 de abril de 2020 por slamonde slamonde | 3 comentarios | Deja un comentario

09 de abril de 2020

Share your bioblitz stories!

While observations are still trickling in, we asked the current top observer, @johndreynolds, for his account of how the day went. Here is what John had to say!

"I started at 7 am at Burnaby Lake Park, which is just within an 8 km radius of my house in Greater Vancouver. One of my first birds was a long-staying Tufted Duck, which was well off course from its Eurasian homeland. By 10 am I had 185 observations of 126 species ranging from Ensatina salamander to Fan Moss. But I was slowing down, so time to move on. I returned to my car and as I was filling in my eBird checklist on my phone I heard a White-throated Sparrow - uncommon on the west coast. I raced over to investigate and found a couple of birders who swore it wasn't them doing a random play-back, but we couldn't find the bird. As soon as they left, there it was!

https://inaturalist.ca/observations/41511077

Next stop, Colony Farm Regional Park, for a quick walk where I added 18 species, mostly birds, but also an endangered Oregon Forestsnail from a place where I'd seen them before. I also ran into BC's Minister of Public Safety, which seemed appropriate for some reason. We stood 3 m apart while he gave me some intel on some birds I needed, but it turns out we both missed a Loggerhead Shrike that was reported later that afternoon and hasn't been seen since. But I digress. I checked my tides app and realized I had just enough time to catch some inter-tidal species near my house on the rising tide. So I raced home and my wife Isabelle joined me for an hour, helping me add 28 species, including migrating Chum Salmon smolts and a Hutton's vireo which I couldn't see but recorded on my phone.

https://inaturalist.ca/observations/41535558

Around 2 pm I decided to call it a day, as I had some chores that I needed to do around the house and yard.

In the early evening I was on my second beer while uploading photos, and Isabelle asked how the tallies were shaping up. I figured I might be heading for around 180 species, which might rank me in 2nd or 3rd place, depending on what other people uploaded. Isabelle wasn't having it! She dragged me out as the light was fading and we picked up about 8 species of invasive plants along the road in front of our house, avoiding anything that had been planted. I was also surprised to see a Pacific Yew, which I must’ve walked past a hundred times without ever having noticed it. We went down to a dock, and Isabelle noticed a rope going down into the water. She pulled it up and there was a crab trap on the end. Nothing in the trap. But wait! What's that clinging to the side of the bait bag? A Saddleback Gunnel! Only the second I've ever seen.

https://inaturalist.ca/observations/41516242

So there you go, fun day! Many thanks to Steven and the other organizers for putting it together, and it’s great to see that new observations are still coming in.

John Reynolds. @johndreynolds"

Would you like to share your own summary or story from Socially Distant BioBlitz with us? Post it in the comments section below.

Publicado el 09 de abril de 2020 por slamonde slamonde | 7 comentarios | Deja un comentario

08 de abril de 2020

Thank you! (event summary included)

Thank you, everyone, for taking part in the Socially Distant BioBlitz on April 5th! The event was, in a word, inspiring. We experienced some amazing turnout from around the world, with 6 continents and 27 countries represented by 342 participants. The bioblitz spanned an incredible 115 degrees of latitude (Børsa, Norway to Puerto Natales, Chile) and 336 degrees of longitude (Lower Hutt, New Zealand to Honolulu, Hawaii), and at the time of writing, an even 12,400 observations have been submitted, containing nearly 3,000 species! What a great snapshot of earth’s biodiversity recorded in a single day.

Our collective “day” started not far from Melbourne, Australia, where @reiner documented an orange pore fungus (Favolaschia calocera; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41432413). Observations soon came in from China, India, Israel, and South Africa, before our European contingent put up some impressive numbers. Young @alexis_orion in Germany was the first person to submit >200 observations, and the fun did not stop there! Just a few hours after sunrise over the western hemisphere, nearly 100 bioblitz-ers in Brazil, Canada, and the United States had added to the growing tidal wave of observations. Our species tally climbed higher and higher, as participants in Ecuador, Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii joined in. The bioblitz finished a full 31 hours and 13 minutes after beginning when @masonmaron found a milky slug (Deroceras reticulatum; https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41587126) outside of Seattle, Washington.

We had so much fun organizing this event that a second Socially Distant BioBlitz is planned for May 3rd! Details and new sign-up instructions will be posted to this project page and social media in the coming days. Stay tuned! To help us better plan this next event, please take a minute to complete our short 7-question survey.

Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SDB1_Survey

Whether you are a seasoned naturalist or just starting your journey, we encourage everyone to keep exploring. There will always be new species to find, or new locations to see familiar ones in. With iNaturalist in your pocket or on your computer, always know that a global community is ready to help you become a more experienced citizen scientist.

Warm regards,

Steven Lamonde (@slamonde ), Sara Lobdell (@slob973 ) & Michael Nerrie (@mnerrie )

Publicado el 08 de abril de 2020 por slamonde slamonde | 4 comentarios | Deja un comentario

06 de abril de 2020

Event update: Time to identify

It is now several hours past midnight in Hawai'i, and the observation period for the Socially Distant BioBlitz has come to a close. If you have not submitted any observations from April 5th yet, please do so at your earliest convenience. We want your observations to be included in our event summary! Keep an eye out for this summary sometime tomorrow.

Have all your observations submitted? Great! We invite you to assist with identifying other's observations so these data can become research quality. Here's how: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/getting+started

Publicado el 06 de abril de 2020 por slamonde slamonde | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

Event update: Just a few hours left!

While April 5th has come and gone east of the Atlantic Ocean, there are still a few hours left in the Western Hemisphere. We have accomplished some big milestones so far: >300 observers, >500 identifiers, >2,000 species, and >8,000 observations! Time to turn on your lights to see what moths stop by or get your audio recording app ready for singing amphibians and other nocturnal animals.

For those of you who have finished for the day, you are invited to help identify our group's observations or just take a look at the incredible biodiversity we sampled in a single day! If you still have observations to submit, please do so within the next 30 hours so we can include them in our final "report" that will be shared with participants.

Thank you, everyone!

Publicado el 06 de abril de 2020 por slamonde slamonde | 1 comentario | Deja un comentario

05 de abril de 2020

>5,000 observations!!!

We have officially reached >5,000 observations and counting, with observations across every continent except Antarctica! What a fantastic achievement!! Thank you all so much for your participation in this project.

Now that we're this far along in our Socially Distant Bioblitz, shall we try a challenge? Capturing photos of the species you can see is easy, but can you hear anything you might not be able to see? Can you smell any plants around you that you might've missed by sight? Try for a short while to extend your senses - listen closely, breathe deeply, feel the wind, the rain, the sun as you walk - and see if you happen upon any new organisms!

Publicado el 05 de abril de 2020 por slob973 slob973 | 0 comentarios | Deja un comentario

Event update: 2,000 observations, and counting!

Dozens of observations are coming in by the minute, and we recently surpassed 2,000! Thanks, @jaydegregorio for accomplishing this milestone for the event. Check out jay's observation here:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/41445259

Shout out to @alexis_orion in Germany for being the first observer to reach 200+ observations - well done!

Also, a friendly reminder to include at least one photo or audio recording with your observations. This helps other iNaturalist users identify the organisms you find and elevate them to Research Grade - the most valuable observation level.

For those of you who are experiencing rainy weather, we hope it passes soon!

Publicado el 05 de abril de 2020 por slamonde slamonde | 2 comentarios | Deja un comentario

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