whitneybrook's Journal

Learning Tools
10 Question Taxa Challenge
Learn the Land Allow browser to know your location
iNat Monthly Bingo Provides a taxa to look for in the current month
Easily Missed Species Tool - lists species found nearby that haven’t been observed in a local spot, ie list of species that could be observed to confirm presence in this particular location.

iNaturalist Year in Review

• My 2024 Year in Review
• My 2023 Year in Review
• My 2022 Year in Review
• My 2021 Year in Review
• My 2020 Year in Review
• My 2019 Year in Review
• My 2018 Year in Review
• My 2017 Year in Review

Observer Stats

• My observation heat map
• My dynamic tree of life for observations
• My Observations by Year
• Longest Observation Streaks - Enter in the name of any user
• Plants I haven’t observed in Teton County
• Plants I haven’t observed in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Identifier Stats

• What I identify
• My identification heat map
• My IDs by type
• My Mavericks
• My PreMavericks
• My identifications by Year
• My comments - will show comments for YOU if you are logged in. To view for any user, replace “whitneybrook” with the username in this URL: https://www.inaturalist.org/comments?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=%40whitneybrook&commit=Search

iNat Tips
How to use URLs
Observation Fields List

Useful URL elements
Teton County, WY: place_id=1784
Park County, WY: place_id=1914
Wyoming: place_id=15
Greater Yellowstone Area (Zone) = 120717
Identified by: ident_user_id=whitneybrook
Project Flora of the Yellowstone Ecosystem: project_id=flora-of-the-yellowstone-ecosystem

Workflow

• Notification Review
• Taxa I’ve Observed vs Total iNat Observations. Taxa need 100 observations to be included in CV, so keep special eye out for taxa with lower than 100 observations. Also a way of checking on my overzealous CV use.
• Useful Tasks for Nonexperts

Area Specific
Newest Species IDed in Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

Frequent identification searches and comments.

Plants

Plant Identification Notes and frequent comments
Search Yellowstone Ecosystem Plants with Coarse ID without mosses
Search All Yellowstone Ecosystem Needs ID Plants
Search Wyoming Plants with coarse ID without mosses
Review first ID plant taxa - Some cool finds, miss identifications, ornamentals not marked casual, observations where recruiting experts can help.
Global Unknown Pinaceae

Unknowns

My process for reviewing unknown is in this journal post.
All Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho Unknowns
Yellowstone Ecosystem Unknowns
Wyoming Unknowns
Montana Unknowns
Idaho Unknowns
Washington Unknowns
Unknowns by new accounts in the US
Phylogenetic Projects for Unknowns

Frequent Comment Scripts
I based my common comments on iNat Frequently Used Responses. I use short cuts via the apple text replacement feature on my iPad. Settings>General>Keyboard>Text replacement

Casuals

Process for reviewing missing observation dates. I ended up reviewing all casuals so it would be easier to monitor new missing dates and found that the vast majority of observations in casual probably belong there, but there are mistakes. Main causes: data that people expected to upload from metadata didn’t import and accidental/incorrect DQA votes.

Consider checking your casual observations. Replace “whitneybrook” with your user name in this URL: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?reviewed=any&quality_grade=casual&order_by=observed_on&photos=true&user_id=whitneybrook

• All Wyoming, Montana, Idaho Casuals with Photos Sorted by Date - will not work unless initial review is done for all states, per below.
• Wyoming Casual with Photos Sort by Date - Go to last page and work backwards to find missing dates
• Montana Casual with Photos Sort by Date - Go to last page and work backwards to find missing dates
• Idaho Casual with Photos Sort by Date - Will need to search smaller geographic area, e.g. county. Then go to last page and work backwards to find missing dates.

Annotation Projects

• Whitebark Pine Project: When uploading observations of whitebark pine please add the following Observation Fields:
  -- Needles/fascicle (integer, enter the number of needles per fascicle)
  -- cones shown? (text, are there cones or cone fragments shown in the photos? Enter yes, no, possibly)
  -- Pest/disease (text, Is there evidence of pests or disease affecting the whitebark pine under observation? If no then enter "none"; if you aren't sure enter "unknown", and if yes then enter the common name of the pest or disease, e.g., mountain pine beetle).

Uh Oh! Search for IDs I did that might be wrong
By Scientific Name (replace name): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=whitneybrook&place_id=any&taxon_name=Pinaceae
By Taxa ID number (replace number): https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=whitneybrook&place_id=any&taxon_id=50829 (Waiting to confirm I know what I’m doing for correcting Viola IDs)