BIoBlitz blog

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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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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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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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 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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