
City Nature Challenge
On April 9, Arizona Project WET hosted several teachers for a workshop to introduce community-based science tools and methods in anticipation of the upcoming City Nature Challenge (CNC). Starting in 2016 as a competition between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the CNC has grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find and share wildlife in their cities. The CNC is an annual four-day bioblitz to document biodiversity. This year the CNC runs from April 29 to May 2. The workshop prepared teachers to utilize the online community science tool iNaturalist with their students to conduct a bioblitz on their school campus, local park, or other green space.
Additional virtual workshops will be hosted by SARSEF over the next few weeks. These will include:
Using iNaturalist for Student Research
iNaturalist and the National Phenology Network: Recording Biodiversity
How Community Science Data is Used in Research
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