This was a presentation for the Geographic Alliances who are all organizing BioBlitzes in 2016. After going out in the field and making observations of biodiversity, we came back to National Geographic to work with the data. I used this presentation as a guide and then demonstrated many parts of it live in the browser. I wouldn't recommend using only the presentation.
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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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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
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 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.
AFTER a BioBlitz…
Click into the observations and it takes you to…
This view. Explore the filters.
This view. Explore the filters.
Look for photos that need ID help.
These observations need the MOST help.
Type your observation on the right.
“wild pig” didn’t match with a taxon so it’s just placeholder text now even though they know what it is, iNat doesn’t know what it is.
Id at the level of “Plants” is better than “Something…”
Everyone loves comments. Welcome new users and encourage them!
See the export button after creating the filter (DON’T EXPORT ALL OF INATURALIST!).
This button probably won’t include as many observations, so better to use the other one.
There will be a follow up webinar about how to do a story map. Here’s one from Hawai’I Volcanoes BioBlitz.
http://story.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/?appid=45867f2ae46e4587afb8e7c7b343b9b8