Keep Up the Good Work!

Hello Natural North Carolina participants!

Just wanted to check in and say thank you to everyone who has participated so far. We've now got over 7300 observations! I hope that you are all enjoying being a part of this project and will keep making submissions. Over time, we are building a fantastic resource for everyone in North Carolina, an atlas of the life in our state so that we can track changes in species distributions over time, make more detailed species maps throughout the state, and create a field guide to NC life so that people can ID the things they find. You're helping make this possible and I thank you!

You may have noticed that there's been a bit of change happening on the leaderboard recently. The NC Arboretum in Asheville has started using Natural NC in a lot of their programs, so look for them to start moving up the ranks quickly. Also, there have been a lot of new sightings at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences that we're working to upload now. We've been training teachers, environmental educators, and citizen scientists throughout the state to get involved in citizen science through Natural NC and we've had a boost in participation from that as well.

I personally encourage everyone to try to knock me off the leaderboard! I have been #3 for a long time, but I hope someone will move past me and take one of the top three spots.

As a non-native to this state, I am constantly impressed by the wealth of biodiversity we have in this gorgeous, amazing place! Your photos and sightings are a total eye opener to me and I am so thrilled that you are all a part of this. Thank you!

Chris

Publicado el agosto 29, 2015 05:03 TARDE por chrisgoforth