This post was created following a webinar by Deb Kramer, Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, and Merav Vonshak, BioBlitz Club as part of our...

iNaturalist iNaturalist is our main app. It's a free smartphone app, used by millions of people worldwide. It's a social media network...

There are so many iNaturalist projects out there! On our Naturalist Training series webinar on 3/18/24 we explored some of them, as well...

iNaturalist made the first page of the New York Times on Sunday 12/11/2022! You can read the entire article by Amy Harmon here. The...

A 1.5" newt trying to cross Alma Bridge Rd. Luckily we found it and moved it safely to the hill side The first 3 months of the 2022-2023...

I love gadgets. Especially the gadgets that help me find and document critters. Here are some of my favorites: A spoon: spoons are the...

Land planarians, snails, slugs, insects, arachnids, worms, oh my! A guest post by Robin Agarwal This year, for the first time, Bioblitz...

Download and print our short wildflower guide here and go out and enjoy spring!

Concerned Citizens Fight to Reverse Local Extinction Trend, Seek Volunteers Over 100 heartfelt comments were read out loud, one by one,...

The report includes an introduction about Pacific newts biology, their diet and life cycle, and how to distinguish the two species found...

The first ever Gall Week event took place between 10/2-10/10/2021. As the project had only materialized two weeks earlier, it was...

Next time you're out for a walk in your neighborhood or on a hike in the Bay Area, try looking closely at some of the oaks, especially...

It's our fourth anniversary today - happy anniversary everyone! Our first BioBlitz was exactly four years ago on 8/19/2017, in Coyote...

In November 2017, Anne Parsons, a citizen scientist and Midpeninsula Regional Open Space trail patrol volunteer, noticed many dead newts...

Our team of volunteers surveys a 4 miles section of the Alma Bridge Rd once a week during the newt migration season, and twice a week during

In addition to newts, we also document many other roadkills. So far, we documented over 400 individuals of 70 different species. Most...

Two species of newts live on the hills around Lexington Reservoir: California Newt (Taricha torosa) and Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha...

To learn more about pacific newts and about our project: You can view all our data under our iNaturalist umbrella project Alma Bridge...

The South Bay BioBlitzes iNaturalist project combines all the BioBlitzes we’ve done so far: 679 people have documented together over...

After the beginning of COVID pandemic and the shutdown of public events in Santa Clara County, we canceled the rest of our events for the...

We use iNaturalist to document our efforts. It's an invaluable tool for us. If you don't know what iNaturalist is, or if you are not sure...

Citizen science is often called community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, volunteer monitoring, or online...