CNC: next steps, identification help needed this week, and results announced May 6

From Shannon Jones, Frost Science Museum:

Hello fabulous City Nature Challenge friends!

Thanks for an incredible four days of observing our local nature! I am so proud of how much Miami accomplished… but we aren’t done yet!

So what's next? Well, we're done taking pictures, but there are still quite a few things that can be done before the challenge is officially over:

Uploading: Did you take a photo between April 26-29 but didn’t upload it to iNaturalist… YOU STILL HAVE TIME! They need to be uploaded by May 5th.

Identifying: The main reason we have a week between the ending of making observations and announcing the results is so that people have time to identify observations, get more species and make observations “research grade.” You can learn more about best practices of making observations here: https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/getting+started#identify

Steps for Identifying:
Go to our project here https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019-miami-and-upper-keys
Click the “identify tab”

Once you're on the identify page, you can filter for particular taxa (using the "species" box or using the taxon buttons in the filters) if you'd like (e.g., birds, plants, grasses, lizards). You can also click the "unknown" button in the filters: to see all the observations that were uploaded with no ID at all. For these unknowns, if you don't know the species it's still useful to add a coarse ID like "plants" or "grasses" or "reptiles" so that the people who know these taxa can find these observations more easily to identify them.

A big part of identifying is also helping us mark observations of organisms that are clearly captive or cultivated as such. If you see a human-planted plant or an animal that's in a zoo or aquarium, PLEASE mark these observations Captive / Cultivated (if you're in the identify page).

Results: Whatever your numbers are as of 9am YOUR TIME on Monday, May 6 will be your results! We will send them out officially when we receive them 😊

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
Shannon

Shannon C. Jones
Conservation Programs Manager
(305) 434-9514 | frostscience.org
1101 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33132

Posted on May 2, 2019 05:51 PM by aphaywood