Honored to unveil the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset today at #ESRI #FedGIS! 🎉 A major step in making species distribution data more accessible for research and conservation. Explore it here: 🌍📍🔗 https://lnkd.in/g4SAJK-t
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About us
iNaturalist is the world’s largest community of naturalists. Every month millions of people from around the world explore nature and collaborate on science and conservation through our free website and mobile apps. Please note: we're a small team of just 13! Many enthusiastic volunteers have also listed their affiliation with iNaturalist.
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- Technology, Information and Internet
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- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- San Rafael, California
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- Nonprofit
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- 2008
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- Education, Science, and Biodiversity
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Updates
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🎉 Celebrating 100,000 Modeled Taxa in the iNaturalist Open Range Map Dataset! To mark this milestone, we're making model-generated distribution data even more accessible. Explore, analyze, and use this data to power biodiversity research! 🌍🔍 https://lnkd.in/g3AZGA2n #iNaturalist #Biodiversity #OpenData
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"It is extremely rare to observe, let alone closely examine, the flowering of Climacoptera lanata." A botanist in Kazakhstan photographed this tiny flower and it's our Observation of the Week! Read the story here: https://lnkd.in/gW63mZsr #botany #nature #citizenscience
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Great interview with Australian iNatter Thomas Mesaglio (thebeachcomber) about iNaturalist and #CitizenScience - definitely worth a listen! #nature #communityscience
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"I love to find every type of mushroom. Basically I'd like to know about them all. Every day is a treasure hunt." A naturalist in Ireland spotted this Horn Stalkball fungus (Onygena equina), which only grows on horns and hooves - it's our Observation of the Week! Read the story at: https://lnkd.in/gWvws2kW #fungi #citizenscience #nature #communityscience
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Thank you to the Change Happens Foundation for believing in iNaturalist's transformative impact for people and biodiversity! Read more: https://lnkd.in/gwBFvjsS
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“I used to shoot only subjects I thought would make for aesthetic social media posts but now I try to shoot everything.” A macro photographer saw these tiny slime mold sporangia in the United States and it's our Observation of the Week! Story here: https://lnkd.in/gMisPyVq #communityscience #citizenscience #biodiversity
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If anyone missed this webinar, you can access a recording here! https://lnkd.in/gtTnbR_5
Join us on Wednesday to learn more about plant phenology and easy ways to get involved! You can register now for this January 22 #NSFfunded event: https://bit.ly/4jrPSgy See this in your own timezone here: https://bit.ly/4jcug7z
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"To me, macro photography is like a window to an alien world right under our noses." A macro photographer in Singapore posted this amazing spider egg case, and it led to a great ID discussion on iNat - it's our Observation of the Week! Story here: https://lnkd.in/gvFCKwcX #communityscience #citizenscience #nature #arachnology
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Sometimes, what seems like an ordinary observation turns out to be anything but! In this case, it's a frog extraordinarily far from home. This is a great example of early detection and rapid response to #invasivespecies!
I was doing my usual look at recently posted photos of reptiles and amphibians in Tasmania on iNaturalist a couple of weeks ago, and I saw a frog that didn't look like any of our locals. I sent a message to my friend Craig Broadfield to confirm, as he's a frog expert, and yep! We had a Peron's Tree Frog who likely stowed away with an imported plant or something. So we reported the sighting to Biosecurity Tasmania. A couple of weeks later and Biosecurity Tasmania managed to locate and remove the frog! ABC write-up on how it was located: https://lnkd.in/gcvqdKrD iNaturalist observation: https://lnkd.in/gbaYpNxh Fantastic to to see everything coming together to keep our environment safe! cc/ Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania (NRE Tas) Carrie Seltzer, Ph.D.