Since I am now a "professional in training" I guess I should write a more serious description. You know, adulting and all that....

Hello humans! My name is Eric and I am a biology student studying at Marquette University. This is largely a result of the passion and knowledge that I gained from iNaturalist. As opposed to what my original profile said, I am now largely focused on plants with my knowledge in birds slowly falling to the wayside. Yet overall, I have a little bit of knowledge about just about everything from fish to lichens to river mussels. Feel free to tag me about most things in South East WI, though I may end up just pointing you to more specialized people.

You have my permission to use my images for any non-commercial educational use as long as you credit and notify me. I like to know where my things end up. Vanity and all that. For commercial use or otherwise, please contact me and we can figure something out. Usually, it's free anyways.

Some Useful Resources For IDing:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/179OG0Ly6laVL5PlbWrkl7uVG874Bgrbxv1yEmV40m9k/edit?usp=sharing

Often Used Responses During IDing Process:

https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/responses#multiple

All the Observations I've IDed

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?ident_user_id=824054&not_user_id=824054&place_id=any&subview=map&view=species

Identifier Profile
https://jumear.github.io/stirfry/iNat_identifier_stats.html?user_id=eric-schmitty

Things I Haven't Seen

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?geoprivacy=open&subview=map&taxon_geoprivacy=open&unobserved_by_user_id=eric-schmitty

Since I have had a couple people come to me with cool stuff that they have done with my observations, I'm going to start including some of that here!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1erJ70DbYASpSY2CNKrNnbKGWwee910GmkW_1ijAY9-4/

Favorite Taxa

View All