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Jun 172 min read
What are BioBlitz events and how can you organize one?
This post was created following a webinar by Deb Kramer, Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful, and Merav Vonshak, BioBlitz Club as part of our...
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May 62 min read
Favorite apps
iNaturalist iNaturalist is our main app. It's a free smartphone app, used by millions of people worldwide. It's a social media network...
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Mar 293 min read
The great diversity of iNaturalist projects
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...
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Dec 12, 20221 min read
New York Times article about iNaturalist
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...
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Dec 1, 20222 min read
An unusual beginning of the newt season
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...
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Jun 28, 20222 min read
Favorite gadgets
I love gadgets. Especially the gadgets that help me find and document critters. Here are some of my favorites: A spoon: spoons are the...
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May 11, 20222 min read
Please Document Invasive Species Under Your Garden Pots!
Land planarians, snails, slugs, insects, arachnids, worms, oh my! A guest post by Robin Agarwal This year, for the first time, Bioblitz...
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Mar 30, 20221 min read
It's spring flowers time!
Download and print our short wildflower guide here and go out and enjoy spring!
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Dec 9, 20212 min read
100 Public Comments: Speaking for the Imperiled Newts of Santa Clara County’s Lexington Reservoir
Concerned Citizens Fight to Reverse Local Extinction Trend, Seek Volunteers Over 100 heartfelt comments were read out loud, one by one,...
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Oct 27, 20211 min read
2017-2021 newt patrol survey report
The report includes an introduction about Pacific newts biology, their diet and life cycle, and how to distinguish the two species found...
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Oct 15, 20212 min read
Gall Week 2021 recap
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...
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Aug 31, 20211 min read
It's fall gall season!
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...
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Aug 19, 20211 min read
BioBlitz Club 4th anniversary!
It's our fourth anniversary today - happy anniversary everyone! Our first BioBlitz was exactly four years ago on 8/19/2017, in Coyote...
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Dec 17, 20202 min read
How it all started
In November 2017, Anne Parsons, a citizen scientist and Midpeninsula Regional Open Space trail patrol volunteer, noticed many dead newts...
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Dec 17, 20201 min read
Where we are now
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
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Dec 17, 20201 min read
Other roadkills
In addition to newts, we also document many other roadkills. So far, we documented over 400 individuals of 70 different species. Most...
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Dec 17, 20201 min read
A little bit of information about newt biology
Two species of newts live on the hills around Lexington Reservoir: California Newt (Taricha torosa) and Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha...
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Dec 17, 20202 min read
Important links
To learn more about pacific newts and about our project: You can view all our data under our iNaturalist umbrella project Alma Bridge...
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Dec 5, 20201 min read
CHECK OUT ALL THE COOL THINGS WE DOCUMENTED TOGETHER IN OVER 40 EVENTS IN THREE YEARS!
The South Bay BioBlitzes iNaturalist project combines all the BioBlitzes we’ve done so far: 679 people have documented together over...
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Dec 3, 20202 min read
COVID EVENTS: VIRTUAL WALKS, PRESENTATIONS, AND BIOBLITZES!
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...
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Jul 19, 20191 min read
WHY WE LOVE iNATURALIST
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...
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Jul 19, 20192 min read
WHY IS CITIZEN SCIENCE SO IMPORTANT
Citizen science is often called community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, volunteer monitoring, or online...
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