City Nature Challenge Uploading and Identifying Phase

Hi everyone,

First off, AMAZING job on the City Nature Challenge this year! We are so awed by and grateful for all the time and effort you all put in to making this year's City Nature Challenge so hugely successful. Whether your city made 100 or 10,000 observations, we're all part of this collective effort to help bring awareness to urban biodiversity and grow our naturalist community who cares about nature everywhere. We know that we've taught people about species around them they didn't know existed, shown people how to participate in collecting data for science and management, and hopefully created new stewards of nature. THANK YOU!!!!

We wanted to remind all of you that we're now in the "uploading and identifying" phase of the City Nature Challenge. Your CNC participants can continue to upload their observations, as long as they were made in the April 27-30 window. We also have these few days to give people time to look at observations and work on confirming or refining the identifications. If you haven't used it yet, definitely click the "Observations" tab near the top of your city's CNC project on iNaturalist and then click the "identify" button to see all the observations that still need IDs to help them get to research grade.

Whatever your numbers are at 9am your time on Friday will be your "final" numbers for the results of the City Nature Challenge! We'll announce the "big" results: observations, species, and people, on Friday. And we'll send out more detailed and nuanced results that dive a bit deeper into the data by Monday and will highlight many of the cities!

As you're going through observations, if you see any interesting ones - rare/endangered species, great photos, observations with great stories, etc., please add them to our interesting finds spreadsheet! The media loves hearing about particular observations that are unique or important or interesting, and we'd love to have many to share from all over the world: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZRQtep9gzUK3sN2QgkFuV4xhb_YhZtGd3CMSlzszYf4/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks to all of you again - we are so appreciative of everything you've done in support of the City Nature Challenge, and we couldn't have worked with a better group of people - you all are incredible!

Lila, Alison, and Amy
CNC Coordinators

Posted on 02 May, 2018 16:39 by texasnaturetrackers