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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

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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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