Join staff from the UCSC Natural Reserves, Ken Norris Center for Natural History, the California Academy of Sciences, legions of enthusiastic UCSC students & alumni, and members of the Santa Cruz community as we come together for a full day exploring and documenting our campus's incredible biodiversity. A bioblitz is a community event that brings together a wide variety of people to ...más ↓
Join staff from the UCSC Natural Reserves, Ken Norris Center for Natural History, the California Academy of Sciences, legions of enthusiastic UCSC students & alumni, and members of the Santa Cruz community as we come together for a full day exploring and documenting our campus's incredible biodiversity. A bioblitz is a community event that brings together a wide variety of people to rapidly inventory the living organisms found in a particular place. UCSC's wide variety of habitats and unique geophysical setting have resulted in a great number of species that call campus home. Choose from one of two shifts---morning (9 am-1 pm) or afternoon (2 pm- 6 pm)---or attend both! We'll be using iNaturalist, a citizen science website and app, to photograph and geographically pinpoint our findings and will come back together at the end of each shift to upload our records, share stories, and help each other with identifications. We hope to grow our campus's species lists, but most importantly celebrate our fellow creatures and each other! Refreshments will be served at the end of each shift when we gather back together. Smartphones or tablets with the free iNaturalist app installed aren't required, but certainly bring them along if you have them. Younger Lagoon Reserve, on our marine science campus at Long Marine Lab, will concurrently host a bioblitz from 9 am-1 pm.
Register for one or both of these events at the following URL:
https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1069/index.aspx?sid=1069&gid=1&pgid=2089&cid=3848
9 am-1 pm
-Meet at UCSC Arboretum Horticulture 2 classroom building
-Parking will be free for participants, though somewhat limited. If you're able to arrive on foot, by bike, or bus, that will be helpful.
-Directions: http://arboretum.ucsc.edu/visit/directions/index.html
2 pm-6 pm
-Meet at the Ken Norris Center for Natural History in Natural Sciences 2 room 239
-Directions: http://norriscenter.ucsc.edu/about/directions.html
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