Gavin Nichols

Joined: Feb 26, 2019 Last Active: Nov 30, 2023 iNaturalist

I am interested in Australian mollusc species & our local marine biomes. I have no formal qualifications but am highly motivated to learn as much as I can. I am an experienced beachcomber, based in Coffs Harbour since 2015 when I was inspired by finding a fresh dead Mauritia mauritiana (Linnaeus, 1758) and coming to the realisation that it wasn't a permanent resident. I then decided to create a cumulative species list for multiple locations in the Solitary Islands Marine Park and document that on a Facebook group. Other like minded people have joined me but I have come to realise that iNat is the place to share occurrences of molluscs. I do wish to create a few datasets from historical posts to the Facebook group via the sandbox at the ALA if I can figure out how to do it. I plan to post to iNat typical shells members of the facebook group have identified at rank of species for confirmation whilst avoiding duplicate records. if I can get the historical observation data from Facebook posts.

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