Projects from Philadelphia

Beard lichens of SE Pennsylvania icon

Beard lichens of SE Pennsylvania

Tracking the occurrence of Usnea species in the five county region
Birds of Philadelphia icon

Birds of Philadelphia

Track and monitor the bird species that inhabit or fly over the city of Philadelphia, PA. Everything from r...
Center City Philadelphia - Biodiversity Survey icon

Center City Philadelphia - Biodiversity Survey

This survey project is intended for students of String Theory schools, but is open to all. The goal of the ...
City Nature Challenge 2019: Greater Philadelphia Area icon

City Nature Challenge 2019: Greater Philadelphia Area

Philadelphia is competing in the City Nature Challenge for the first time and we need your help to win! Cit...
City Nature Challenge 2019: Greater Philadelphia Area  - Philadelphia icon

City Nature Challenge 2019: Greater Philadelphia Area - Philadelphia

The City Nature Challenge is coming to the Greater Philadelphia Area, and while we'll be competing with cit...
City Nature Challenge 2020: Greater Philadelphia Area icon

City Nature Challenge 2020: Greater Philadelphia Area

Philadelphia is competing in the City Nature Challenge again and we need your help to win! Cities around th...
City Nature Challenge 2020: Greater Philadelphia Area and South Jersey icon

City Nature Challenge 2020: Greater Philadelphia Area and South Jersey

While the official Philadelphia City Nature Challenge Area includes Philadelphia county and all counties th...
City Nature Challenge 2021: Greater Philadelphia Area icon

City Nature Challenge 2021: Greater Philadelphia Area

Philadelphia is competing in the City Nature Challenge again and we need your help to win! Cities around th...
City Nature Challenge 2022: Greater Philadelphia Area icon

City Nature Challenge 2022: Greater Philadelphia Area

Philadelphia is competing in the City Nature Challenge again and we need your help to win! Cities around th...
City Nature Challenge 2023: Greater Philadelphia Area icon

City Nature Challenge 2023: Greater Philadelphia Area

Philadelphia is competing in the City Nature Challenge again and we need your help to win! Cities around th...
City Nature Challenge 2024: Greater Philadelphia Area icon

City Nature Challenge 2024: Greater Philadelphia Area

Philadelphia is competing in the City Nature Challenge again and we need your help to win! Cities around th...
East Coast Urban Wildlife icon

East Coast Urban Wildlife

This project pools together observation across major metropolitan centers to document the diversity within ...
Ele and Mario's neighborhood weed walk icon

Ele and Mario's neighborhood weed walk

this is a preschool homeschool project for my kids to collect information on weeds and other plants in thei...
Environmental Science Fall 2019 icon

Environmental Science Fall 2019

Environmental Science students will record their observations of plant life on their way to school and home.
Gowen Gardens: Plants icon

Gowen Gardens: Plants

The plants found on the grounds of Gowen Gardens.
Greensgrow Life icon

Greensgrow Life

We want to know all the little critters and plants that live at Greensgrow West
Invasive Plants from Botanical Gardens: Philadephia icon

Invasive Plants from Botanical Gardens: Philadephia

Looking at invasive plants that are from botanical gardens in Philadelphia (Awbury and Morris Arboretums) a...
Invasives of Philadelphia icon

Invasives of Philadelphia

Tracking all the invasive species in Philadelphia!
ISM Biodiversity Survey icon

ISM Biodiversity Survey

This project is intended for Independence Seaport Museum's River Ambassadors to observe, document, and iden...
Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware icon

Lenape Indian Tribe of Delaware

The Lenape Tribe of Delaware is working on a project to catalog the natural flora and fauna found on their ...
Master Watershed Stewards - Chester Delaware icon

Master Watershed Stewards - Chester Delaware

These are the specimens that we observed during spring 2021 as part of our Basic Training program.
McIlvaines Fungi of Philadelphia icon

McIlvaines Fungi of Philadelphia

An attempt to locate and document the Philadelphia fungal taxa that mycologist Charles McIlvaine documented...
Native Plant life of Pennsylvania's Piedmont counties icon

Native Plant life of Pennsylvania's Piedmont counties

Track the plants located in the Piedmont physiographic region of Pennsylvania.
Native Plants of Philadelphia icon

Native Plants of Philadelphia

This project captures U.S. native plants growing in Philadelphia, PA
New detections of Spotted Lanternfly icon

New detections of Spotted Lanternfly

By excluding areas where known infestation is occurring, this should produce a map of new or unknown observ...
Northern Fall Bioblitz 2020 - Philadelphia icon

Northern Fall Bioblitz 2020 - Philadelphia

Join Philadelphia and its surrounding counties as we document our fall biodiversity. We've done the City Na...
PhilaBug - Urban Entomology Database icon

PhilaBug - Urban Entomology Database

Thank you for contributing to Philadelphia's insect database project. Your contribution helps scientists un...
PhilaBug - Urban Entomology Database icon

PhilaBug - Urban Entomology Database

Thank you for contributing to Philadelphia's insect database project. Your contribution helps scientists un...
Philadelphia Beetles icon

Philadelphia Beetles

What Kind Of Beetles Are In Philadelphia ?
Philadelphia Caterpillar Host Plant Survey icon

Philadelphia Caterpillar Host Plant Survey

A project to list the Lepidoptera breeding in Philadelphia. All observations must be caterpillars and have ...
Philadelphia City BioBlitz 2018 (2) icon

Philadelphia City BioBlitz 2018 (2)

First ever Philadelphia city-wide BioBlitz
Philadelphia Mycology Club icon

Philadelphia Mycology Club

Our mission is to study, collect, and document fungi; to foster accessibility, diversity, and inclusivity t...
Philadelphia Mycology Club Umbrella Project icon

Philadelphia Mycology Club Umbrella Project

This project is intended to explore the fungi of the Greater Philadelphia Area including all 6 of the surro...
Philly Scientist Draft icon

Philly Scientist Draft

Philly Scientists Test project
Plants near me icon

Plants near me

Observation made in center city
Plants of Southeastern PA Bioregion icon

Plants of Southeastern PA Bioregion

Plants of southeastern PA and neighboring NJ.
Potentially Problematic Plants in the Wissahickon icon

Potentially Problematic Plants in the Wissahickon

This project, curated by the Wissahickon Restoration Volunteers, aims to track non-native plants that have ...
PowerCorpsPHL Cohort 16 icon

PowerCorpsPHL Cohort 16

PowerCorpsPHL Cohort 16 Ecology Coordinator field observations
rocky horror fungus show icon

rocky horror fungus show

best of funguses in and around philadelphia!
SEEDS National BioBlitz 2023 : Temple University icon

SEEDS National BioBlitz 2023 : Temple University

A BioBlitz focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a given area. The TU SEEDS cha...
South Jersey Fungi icon

South Jersey Fungi

Upload photos of mushrooms from the South Jersey/Philly suburban area for identification.
Spring Emphemerals in the Wissahickon icon

Spring Emphemerals in the Wissahickon

Mapping native spring ephemerals in the Wissahickon
Street Trees of Philadelphia icon

Street Trees of Philadelphia

Trees and shrubs that are planted, or sometimes volunteer, along the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania....
Temple Bird Strikes Project icon

Temple Bird Strikes Project

Temple Bird Strikes is a project to document the bird collisions occurring with building on Temple Universi...
University of Pennsylvania Campus Bioblitz - Fall 2016 (Pilot) icon

University of Pennsylvania Campus Bioblitz - Fall 2016 (Pilot)

Welcome blitzers! The main goal of this event is to stage a "dry run" of some survey methods in hopes of de...
What Do Birds Eat (Philadelphia)? icon

What Do Birds Eat (Philadelphia)?

What are birds eating in Philadelphia county? This can be migrants, breeding birds, or wintering birds. And...
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