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Field work & data collection are just the
beginning!
• How to manage your own
observations
• How BioBlitz projects work
• Interacting with other
people’s observations
• Exporting observations for
other uses (like ESRI
Storymaps)
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To get a sense of the audience…
1. Who has logged into the
iNaturalist website before?
2. Who has already created a
BioBlitz project?
3. Who has added identifications
before?
4. Who feels like they will need a
lot of help?
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Prizes!
Within the BioBlitz project,
whomever has
1. Most observations
2. Most enthusiastic
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Activity 1: Your Observations on iNaturalist
1. Sync any observations from
your device.
2. Log in to your account on
iNaturalist.org.
3. Look at your observations.
4. Check that all have locations.
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Activity 1: Your Observations on iNaturalist
Missing/incorrect locations? Use
batch edit feature.
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Activity 1: Your Observations on iNaturalist
Missing/incorrect locations? Use
batch edit feature.
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Activity 1: Your Observations on iNaturalist
Missing/incorrect locations? Use
batch edit feature.
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Activity 1: Your Observations on iNaturalist
1. Type to search for a location.
2. Click on the map to see a
radius appear around a point.
3. Adjust the size of the circle to
indicate uncertainty (or
encompass the entire area we
covered today).
4. “Apply” and scroll down to save
all.
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Activity 1: Your Observations on iNaturalist
Check that all have identifications
in the iNat taxonomy.
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Activity 1: Your Observations on iNaturalist
1. Add identifications to your
observations.
2. Try the identotron feature.
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Activity 1: Your Observations on iNaturalist
1. Add relevant details in the
description.
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Activity 2: Observations from a BioBlitz
1. BioBlitz project pages before &
after the event.
2. Leaderboards.
3. Observation filters
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Activity 3: Adding IDs and comments
1. Searching for observations that
need IDs.
2. Adding IDs. (Crowdsourcing
isn’t magic, it’s people—
including you!)
3. Adding comments. Be
welcoming and encouraging!
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Activity 4: Data life beyond iNaturalist
1. Set up search parameters.
2. Export data as kml or csv.
3. Use in GIS or ERSI
StoryMaps.
4. Time lapse maps in CartoDB
5. What happens with data from
iNaturalist.
6. A true snail story.
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Activity 4: Data life beyond iNaturalist
Research-grade observations are shared
with the gbif.org and other data partners
like NPSpecies.
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Activity 4: Data life beyond iNaturalist
A BioBlitz like ours today resulted in a
new detection of an invasive snail.
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