Projects from Illinois

2016 National Parks BioBlitz - Pullman! icon

2016 National Parks BioBlitz - Pullman!

The Geographic Society of Chicago is teaming up with the National Park Service (NPS) to celebrate the NPS C...
Berlese Funnel 2021- Illinois icon

Berlese Funnel 2021- Illinois

Arthropods of a soil/ leaf litter sample extracted using a catch-and-release Berlese Funnel. Specimens were...
Biodiversity of the Cache River Watershed icon

Biodiversity of the Cache River Watershed

This projects seeks to document and focus attention on the biodiversity of the Cache River Watershed. The h...
Bumblebee Rapid Assessment Surveys icon

Bumblebee Rapid Assessment Surveys

Data submission project for bumblebee surveys.
Chicago Public Trees icon

Chicago Public Trees

This project is aiming to inverntory and collect data on the health and condition of street trees and park ...
City Nature Challenge 2017: Chicago icon

City Nature Challenge 2017: Chicago

Chicago's motto "Urbs in Horto" means "City in a Garden". Let's show the rest of the country how much amazi...
Deer Grove Weed Scouts icon

Deer Grove Weed Scouts

This project was designed to help the Volunteer Invasive Plant Monitors (aka Weed Scouts) in the Deer Grove...
Dekalb Small Yard Project icon

Dekalb Small Yard Project

Recording fauna biodiversity in my yard as more plant species are added.
Herpwatch McHenry County icon

Herpwatch McHenry County

Herpwatch McHenry County monitors reptile and amphibian activity through voluntary data contributions from ...
IB 444 - Plant Identification icon

IB 444 - Plant Identification

This is going to be used to keep track of plant species I'm attempting to ID for an Insect Ecology course
Illinois Big Tree Champion Register icon

Illinois Big Tree Champion Register

This project is a collection of the past/current registered big tree champions in Illinois. The Big Tree re...
Illinois Natural Heritage Database Program icon

Illinois Natural Heritage Database Program

The Natural Heritage Database Program is within the Division of Natural Heritage at the Illinois Department...
Illinois Prairies icon

Illinois Prairies

The goal of this project is to document the distribution of prairie plants and animals remaining in Illinois.
Illinois RiverWatch icon

Illinois RiverWatch

The mission of Illinois RiverWatch is to safeguard the future of Illinois rivers and streams through stewar...
Illinois Threatened & Endangered Species icon

Illinois Threatened & Endangered Species

The purpose of this project is to document the occurrence of all of Illinois' Threatened and Endangered spe...
INHS Mammal Collection icon

INHS Mammal Collection

Incorporate observations of mammals as photo vouchers in the INHS Mammal Collection.
Invasive species of Lake County, IL icon

Invasive species of Lake County, IL

To identify and GPS locations of invasive species populations that are not currently known. These location ...
Matthiessen State Park icon

Matthiessen State Park

The purpose of this project is to collect the different plant species and animals at Matthiessen State Park...
MCC's One Acre Prairie icon

MCC's One Acre Prairie

We are interested in documenting species within MCC's prairie. This is an important outdoor space on our ca...
McKinley Park Bio Blitz! icon

McKinley Park Bio Blitz!

This project is an effort to understand and identify all of the diverse life which resides in the Natural A...
McKinley Park Tree Survey~ icon

McKinley Park Tree Survey~

How many trees are in McKinley Park? What species are there? Where are they precisely? Let's find out tog...
Microorganisms of the Chicago River icon

Microorganisms of the Chicago River

A record of microscopic plants, animals, fungi, protists, and archaea in the Chicago River. This project al...
Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie icon

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie

Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie was established by Congress in 1996 with the Illinois Land Conservation ...
Mushrooms, lichens, & fungi of Illinois icon

Mushrooms, lichens, & fungi of Illinois

Show your pics of mushrooms, molds, fungal diseases, lichens, et cetera. Any kind of fungus! Mushroom...
Native Bee Mark-Release-Recapture Projects in Illinois icon

Native Bee Mark-Release-Recapture Projects in Illinois

The goal of this project is to keep track of all ongoing native bee mark-recapture projects in Illinois. Pr...
Neighborhood Nature Play Path icon

Neighborhood Nature Play Path

Use this project to plan and map your neighborhood nature play hike. The questions in this project are base...
Orland Grassland Weed Scouts icon

Orland Grassland Weed Scouts

This project helps Weed Scouts capture the location of invasive species that can harm the habitat for nativ...
Orland Seed Scouting icon

Orland Seed Scouting

Potential seed collection species at Orland Grassland.
PIF 2019 - 2020 icon

PIF 2019 - 2020

This project includes observation from bird surveys and camera trap images taken at Chicago High Schools, M...
Pond Fauna at The Grove icon

Pond Fauna at The Grove

Observations of species surveyed from ponds at The Grove, a national historic landmark in Glenview, Illinois.
Scirpus cyperinus complex in Illinois icon

Scirpus cyperinus complex in Illinois

Collects observations of Scirpus cyperinus complex taxa in Illinois. Adds a field to give finer taxonomic d...
Shells of East Waterview Way icon

Shells of East Waterview Way

Tracking the aquatic mollusk species of this small pond. Observations must be: 1. Found in the water of...
Shells of Lamera Pond icon

Shells of Lamera Pond

Tracking the species of mollusks in the pond to gain a better understanding of the impacts of invasive *Cor...
Shells of West Waterview Way icon

Shells of West Waterview Way

Compiling all of the shelled-mollusks of this small pond. Observations must be: 1. Found in the water of t...
SIU Herp Club icon

SIU Herp Club

This iNaturalist group is for the SIU Herpetology Enthusiasts of Southern Illinois to submit their herp obs...
Starhill Forest Arboretum icon

Starhill Forest Arboretum

This project documents spontaneous (not planted) species found at Starhill Forest Arboretum. Feel free to c...
Swissôtel Chicago Nature Nearby icon

Swissôtel Chicago Nature Nearby

Swissôtel invites you to discover and share nature around our hotels. We'd like you to help us discover eve...
The Prairie at Walnut Grove icon

The Prairie at Walnut Grove

To record observations at the prairie.
Time to Wake Up icon

Time to Wake Up

Take pictures of plants waking up from the long winter. Close up images of plants in Madison County, IL.
Waters School Bioblitz 2016 icon

Waters School Bioblitz 2016

Wednesday June 8th, Waters is hosting a Biodiversity Day and "bioblitz" on our school grounds. A bioblitz...
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