יומן של Home River Bioblitz - Youth Water Leadership Program

Our collective observations are over 3500 around the world - https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?project_id=85808

Be sure your observations are counted by making sure they are all uploaded within the iNaturalist app. Sometime they get stuck in the que waiting to upload
Also send any of your best photos of the river (or a species) to me at sarah@wildroseeducation.com so I can make a collage of our rivers represented in our project team. By the way be sure to view our project map to see how far and wide we are across America. https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/home-river-bioblitz-youth-water-leadership-program

You're all pretty awesome for getting out there today and exploring your home rivers. :-)

Be sure to take a more general photo (not of a species) of your river visit on Sunday and then share it by posting it to our facebook event discussion https://www.facebook.com/events/933697410484572

Here, below, tell us all what river you'll be visiting, and where it's located (near what city, state, country).

While you're out collecting species data, get some land cover data too. Here's how.

Download the GLOBE Observer app to your smartphone. - https://observer.globe.gov/about/get-the-app
Create a unique account (you'll need an email address for this)
Join Wild Rose Education's Home River Bioblitz observation team using this referral code - GLIDRIKN (that's an i not a 1).
Take the tutorial within the app on your phone for the Clouds and Land Cover protocols.
Start taking observations everywhere you go!
More details at https://www.wildroseeducation.com/news

Please complete this short survey https://forms.gle/suXw6TKUsEfK7XmU6 by Sunday morning, before you head out to your home river. Grad student, Jens Benöhr's research aims to understand how citizen science can affect people’s attachment to local wildlife and ecosystems and therefore improve citizen-science initiatives. To achieve this, she's measuring place attachment before and after the bioblitz event.

Thank you for getting this done ASAP.