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- 1. An Intro to iNaturalist cassi saari Illinois Native Plant Society @bouteloua on iNaturalist & @boucur on Twitter Patrick McCrea DeKalb County Forest Preserve District @mccrea on iNaturalist
- 2. Ecological restoration practitioner - design and monitor habitat restoration projects in Chicagoland region Volunteer curator on iNaturalist, president of NE Chapter Illinois Native Plant Society Plant-obsessed! Love to hike and botanize hi! Im cassi saari (@bouteloua)
- 3. Wildlife Ecologist for DeKalb County Forest Preserve District Restores and creates wildlife habitat Patrick McCrea (@mccrea) Monitors wildlife species within the preserves and throughout the county
- 4. iNaturalist Started in 2008 (masters project) Ken-ichi Ueda @kueda Scott Loarie @loarie iNat is completely free and open source: github.com/inaturalist api.inaturalist.org
- 5. iNaturalist is an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature iNaturalist is a crowdsourced species identification system and an organism occurrence recording tool
- 6. iNaturalist is an app and website for nature nerds
- 7. Why do I use iNaturalist? Get help with identification Nature journal Learn more about species Help others identify Volunteer Awesome while traveling Look for fun places to explore Use data for my work Contribute to global database / community science
- 8. Why does DeKalb County use iNaturalist? dsfsdd General species inventory Locating rare species Locating remnant species Collecting seed Species distribution Areas of interest (nesting sites, ephemeral pools) Tracking invasive species Get people involved and identifying species Connect with nature and build a community that cares
- 9. Do you or your organization use iNaturalist?
- 10. iNat is growing fast
- 12. Plant Literacy
- 13. beebalm purple prairie clover false sunflower golden Alexanders pale purple coneflower grey-headed coneflower stiff goldenrod We cant protect and manage what we dont know Andy Stahr
- 14. Ways to Learn
- 15. Learning on iNaturalist Community of expert amateurs and professionals Automated species identification / computer vision Record your notes on ID Nature journal time/place/with who/associate species Database of verified images to compare At different stages of life not just picturebook ready Blake Bringhurst
- 16. An observation records an encounter with an individual organism at a particular time and location.
- 17. Explore
- 18. Document
- 19. Share
- 20. Identify Anyone can add an identification to an observation Refining process dont have to know which species Community ID system can opt out if needed Casual Grade, Needs ID, Research Grade (community verified)
- 21. Community
- 22. Identify Botanist at the Museum of Natural History of the Mediterranean of Livorno, Italy Scientist with the Roman Society of Natural Sciences
- 23. Discuss
- 24. Community
- 26. My Life List
- 27. My Observations My Identifications for Other People
- 28. Preserved specimens since 1822 (GBIF) : Up to ~40/year Observations on iNaturalist: >9,000 in 2019 Common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
- 29. In conjunction with specimens Heberline & Isaac 2018 "iNaturalist as a tool to expand the research value of museum specimens"
- 30. Range expansions Ralph Foster, Ichthyology Section, South Australian Museum
- 31. Range expansions Marianne Nyegaard, PhD student studying mola in Australia
- 33. New species
- 34. Research projects Physcomitrium mosses Rafael Medina at Augustana College Find, report, and send samples Studying genome duplication in plant evolution
- 35. Research Mountain goats and climate change
- 36. Land management Tracking invasive birdsfoot trefoil at Poplar Creek in Cook County, IL
- 37. Monitoring rare populations Observation Fields
- 38. Upload your own place boundaries Flora of the Cal Slag
- 39. Tool for other data collection Observation Fields:
- 41. Taxon page
- 42. Range Maps Ken Slade Danaus plexippus (monarch)
- 43. Taxonomy & Names Ken Slade Danaus plexippus (monarch)
- 44. Similar species Ken Slade Danaus plexippus (monarch)
- 45. Photo source (check copyright)
- 46. Photos
- 47. Sounds
- 48. No video yet
- 49. GIFs
- 50. No media at all
- 53. Taking identifiable photos Use your hands Try different angles/features Scale figure Use macro mode Crop
- 54. Identifying Sedges Habit & Habitat Clumping or creeping? Wet or dry? Reproductive Parts Plants that are still in flower are often not identifiable to species. Vegetative Parts Are any parts of it hairy? How broad are the leaves? What color is the base of the stem? What does the sheath (where the leaf meets the stem) look like? Photograph the individual fruits (perigynia), preferably with something for scale Are the male and female parts on separate spikes or together? together separate Carex sartwellii has a blackened stem base Carex woodii has dark red stems Carex stricta has fibrous leaf sheaths
- 55. Take a lot of photos
- 56. Create an Observation from App
- 57. Create an Observation from Computer
- 59. App vs. Website I use the app to Make observations View observations near me while traveling I use the website to do everything else Upload observations from camera Add/refine identifications Add IDs, comment, fave other users observations Create and manage projects Write journal and project posts View taxon pages View stats Find local or taxonomic experts Export data
- 60. Explore Page Filters https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=35&taxon_id=81598&year=2018
- 61. Help identify
- 62. Suggestions / Compare tool
- 63. Geoprivacy Location privacy Manual option - personal geoprivacy Automatic - taxon/species geoprivacy: taxa that may be threatened by collection/harvesting or otherwise disturbed due to the public's knowledge of its location Open Obscured Private Random point within a 0.2 x 0.2 degree rectangle (~150 square miles)
- 64. taxa that may be threatened by collection or harvesting or otherwise disturbed due to the public's knowledge of its location Species Geoprivacy
- 65. such as... many orchids and other rare, showy plants many species of reptiles and amphibians wild leeks in the Chicago area Showy lady slippers by Bill SpiersOrnate box turtle by Bryan Box Species Geoprivacy
- 66. Thimbleweed (Anemone virginiana) open taxon geoprivacy Wild leeks (Allium tricoccum) obscured taxon geoprivacy .trade-offsSpecies Geoprivacy
- 67. Accessing Hidden Coordinates 1. User-to-user trust system Your Relationships page: inaturalist.org/relationships User selects trust with hidden coordinates 2. Traditional Project To set up, requires account to have 50 observations Requires manually adding observations to project Users must grant access to coordinates for the project Download any important data regularly
- 68. Easy to interpolate true coordinates based on your other nearby observations that day Obscure entire day Upload observations out of order Not everything is set to auto-obscure that should be Please flag the species for curation Be careful who/which projects you trust with accessing coordinates Consider whether you should post it online at all Staff are exploring improvements to geoprivacy Geoprivacy Caution & Tips
- 69. Kids and iNaturalist: Best Practices Younger children: consider using the Seek app instead
- 70. Kids and iNaturalist: Best Practices Younger children: consider using the Seek app instead Use iNaturalist yourself first Focus on wild organisms Teachers: Dont set large observation/ID requirements or require research grade Watch out for copyrighted images/gaming the system Curate their observations yourself iNaturalist Teachers Guide
- 71. Should I create a project? Managing Projects Guide Probably not, unless: Bioblitz/event Create a sub-community Need access to private coordinates Require certain observation fields
- 73. Adding Place Boundaries All states and county boundaries already in database Search existing places before adding new ones To add a new place to iNat, your account needs a minimum of 50 observations Places arent currently transferable - make the place from an organizational account, not a personal one
- 74. DeKalb County Forest Preserve District inaturalist.org/projects/dekalb-county-forest-preserve-district
- 78. Getting more help FAQ page: inaturalist.org/pages/help Ask on the forum: forum.inaturalist.org General support email is help@inaturalist.org @bouteloua is happy to help! Bugs! File a bug report on the forum
- 79. Main iNat Tips Dont just use the app more features on the website Take multiple, identifiable photos Dont be afraid to ask for help ...or to make mistakes
- 80. cassi saari @bouteloua cassisaari@gmail.com Patrick McCrea @mccrea & @dekalbcountyfpd pmccrea@dekalbcounty.org Thanks! Questions?