Projects from Contra Costa

2014 Tilden Nature Area BioBlitz icon

2014 Tilden Nature Area BioBlitz

Welcome to the Spring 2014 Tilden Nature Area BioBlitz! Founded in 1949, the Tilden Nature Area has bee...
Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge Bioblitz icon

Antioch Dunes National Wildlife Refuge Bioblitz

Join us in the East Bay for a grassroots, smartphone-powered bioblitz to catalogue every living species we ...
Bay Area EDRR icon

Bay Area EDRR

Bay Area EDRR: Regional target species that are CDFA rated and present in less than 10% of the region. The ...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For April: Western Fence Lizard icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For April: Western Fence Lizard

April brings the return of the City Nature Challenge, an international citizen science event organized by t...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For August: Variegated Meadowhawk icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For August: Variegated Meadowhawk

Dragonflies feel the time passing. By August they’re entering into their migration: clouds of large, fast v...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For December: Banana Slugs icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For December: Banana Slugs

The world may not get any weirder — from a human perspective at least — than the bizarre, slime-trailing ba...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For February: Yellow-eyed Ensatina icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For February: Yellow-eyed Ensatina

As rain saturates the ground and streams rise, salamanders come out to wander the forest floor. There are m...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For January: Goldback Fern icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For January: Goldback Fern

Rain encourages ferns like the goldback to uncurl their leaves and spread out. You can find this California...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For July: Cuckoo Wasp icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For July: Cuckoo Wasp

The peak of summer is your chance to see perhaps the most gorgeous insect in California: the unbelievably i...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For June: Black Tegula Snail icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For June: Black Tegula Snail

June brings fog and some of the West Coast’s best low tides. While color and beauty abound in every tidepoo...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For March: Hedgepeth's Sapsucker icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For March: Hedgepeth's Sapsucker

Want to find green in nature for St. Patrick’s Day? Want to find something cooler than a four-leaf clover? ...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For May: Acmon Blue Butterfly icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For May: Acmon Blue Butterfly

As it warms up into May, insects come alive. The West Coast native Acmon blue butterfly is common here, but...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For November: Acorn Woodpecker icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For November: Acorn Woodpecker

November 2020 seems like a good month to look for a bird that symbolizes sharing, community, and vicious fi...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For October: Metepeira Spider icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For October: Metepeira Spider

October in the Bay Area brings heat waves and east winds rather than crackling leaves and dreary skies. But...
Bay Nature: Nature to Look For September: Golden-Crowned Sparrow icon

Bay Nature: Nature to Look For September: Golden-Crowned Sparrow

The autumnal equinox means the return of a Bay Area favorite: the common golden-crowned sparrow arrives som...
Berkeley Marina - BHS icon

Berkeley Marina - BHS

This project is designed for Berkeley High School students who want to contribute observations of the Berke...
BioBlitz San Francisco's Urban Forest icon

BioBlitz San Francisco's Urban Forest

Discover the urban forest of San Francisco during quarantine! The urban forest includes an amazing array of...
Biodiversity at The Gardens at Heather Farm icon

Biodiversity at The Gardens at Heather Farm

Discover and document biodiversity at The Gardens at Heather Farm and surrounding schoolyards in Contra Cos...
BIODIVERSITY PROJECT icon

BIODIVERSITY PROJECT

Find as many different organisms as possible at Mount Diablo State Park.
Browns Island Plant Catalog icon

Browns Island Plant Catalog

The purpose of this project is to make an annotated list of flowering plants, ferns, and grasses on Browns ...
City Nature Challenge 2018 - Briones BioBlitz icon

City Nature Challenge 2018 - Briones BioBlitz

Welcome to the 2018 City Nature Challenge! This afternoon / evening BioBlitz of Briones Regional Park, part...
Diablo Pheno Team icon

Diablo Pheno Team

This project is intended to help communicate phenology of certain target plants that occur in Mount Diablo ...
EAST BAY - Native Grass Stands Mapping Project icon

EAST BAY - Native Grass Stands Mapping Project

The goal of this project is to utilize iNat to begin to assess and record native grassland stands in the Ea...
Gehringer Native Plant Garden icon

Gehringer Native Plant Garden

Monitor and track the biodiversity of this demonstration garden in Concord, CA.
GG&BF 2014 icon

GG&BF 2014

On behalf of the TWS/CNPS 2014 Gourmet Greens and Beasts Feast, attendees have been challenged to log the m...
IB 157 Strawberry Creek Collections icon

IB 157 Strawberry Creek Collections

This project ties iNaturalist observations to voucher specimens collected for IB 157 Ecosystems of Califo...
Insect of Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve icon

Insect of Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve

This project records observations of Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve
Jordan Kim's Pleasant Hill Bioblitz icon

Jordan Kim's Pleasant Hill Bioblitz

My project for my horticulture IPM class at DVC. It will focus on observations done at, or on the Iron Hors...
K2 Ecosystem Health icon

K2 Ecosystem Health

Research an Ecosystem and Determine Whether It Is Fragile or Resilient
Lake Anza Birds icon

Lake Anza Birds

This project aims to document seasonal and long-term bird use of Lake Anza and the immediate environs. I h...
Liberty High School Environmental Science! icon

Liberty High School Environmental Science!

This will be part of our Nature Journal. Extra Credit will be awarded each week to who submits the most RES...
Limeridge Open Space icon

Limeridge Open Space

I'm curious to see how diverse the ecosystem I see through my window daily is, it's health, and what balanc...
Mt. Diablo, Morgan Fire 2013 icon

Mt. Diablo, Morgan Fire 2013

We are collecting observations made within the perimeter of the September 2013 Morgan Fire on Mount Diablo ...
Pleasant Hill Instructional Garden Flora & Fauna Observations icon

Pleasant Hill Instructional Garden Flora & Fauna Observations

To provide ongoing student, garden and community educational and recreational resources, visitors will loca...
Raptors of The Bay Area icon

Raptors of The Bay Area

I want to see where most raptors of the Bay Area live, and what the most common ones are.
Research Projects at Big Break Regional Shoreline icon

Research Projects at Big Break Regional Shoreline

Description Needed. For Students only.
Saklan BioBlitz icon

Saklan BioBlitz

Discover and track all living things in our local community to see the diversity of life around us!
San Pablo Creek - Orinda icon

San Pablo Creek - Orinda

This is an opportunity to reconnect, learn and protect your local habitat. Keep your town beautiful for you...
Save Mount Diablo 2015 Bioblitz - Morgan Fire footprint icon

Save Mount Diablo 2015 Bioblitz - Morgan Fire footprint

The Morgan Fire presents a unique opportunity to study post-fire effects; areas once impenetrable due to de...
Sobrante Ridge regional preserve icon

Sobrante Ridge regional preserve

Cataloging observations
Species in EBRPD icon

Species in EBRPD

Species in East Bay
SRVHS Biodiversity 2018 icon

SRVHS Biodiversity 2018

Students will make observations in the community surround San Ramon Valley High School
Suburban Biodiversity of the East Bay Area icon

Suburban Biodiversity of the East Bay Area

Our aim is to identify and document wild species observed in suburban, urban, and commercial properties wit...
Sycamore Valley Regional Open Space Preserve icon

Sycamore Valley Regional Open Space Preserve

The purpose of this project is to document the species of Sycamore Valley Open Space Preserve and any impac...
Urban Wildlife of the East Bay, California icon

Urban Wildlife of the East Bay, California

Observations of everyday urban wildlife (of the non-human variety) on the east side of San Francisco Bay. W...
Wildcat Canyon Regional Park icon

Wildcat Canyon Regional Park

Observations in Wildcat Canyon Regional Park – including access points and trail easements which aren't inc...
Wildflowers of San Francisco Bay Area icon

Wildflowers of San Francisco Bay Area

Collection of wildflowers found in greater San Francisco Bay Area. Ranging from Point Reyes National Seash...
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