Projects from New England

2015 UMass Boston Fall Bio 102 icon

2015 UMass Boston Fall Bio 102

To record observations from our class
2018 UMass Boston Fall Bio 102 icon

2018 UMass Boston Fall Bio 102

This is a class project for a non majors class on Evolution. The education goal is for students to learn ab...
2019 Sunflower Project icon

2019 Sunflower Project

Sunflower project for Adler lab 2019! Observation requirements -Must be in kingdom "Plantae" - minimal ...
2023 New England Plants ID-a-thon, Feb. 24-26 icon

2023 New England Plants ID-a-thon, Feb. 24-26

Welcome to the second annual ID-a-thon for New England plants! This is a 48-hour period in which we try to ...
2024 New England and New York Plants ID-a-thon, Feb. 23-25 icon

2024 New England and New York Plants ID-a-thon, Feb. 23-25

Welcome to the third annual ID-a-thon for New England plants! This year, by request, we're expanding this t...
Amphibians and Reptiles of New England icon

Amphibians and Reptiles of New England

To catalog the diversity of amphibian and reptile species in the New England area
Anemone Curation Project icon

Anemone Curation Project

An exploration of the diversity and distribution of Anemone.
Asclepias Curation Project icon

Asclepias Curation Project

Exploration of the distribution and diversity of
Beacon Envirothon icon

Beacon Envirothon

The purpose of this project is to identify organisms around Rhode Island on club hikes and individual hikes.
Betula Curation icon

Betula Curation

A curation project of Betula species found within New England.
BIOL 298: It isn't easy being green icon

BIOL 298: It isn't easy being green

Observations from Fall 2019's BIOL 298 second year seminar. Observations must be a plant.
BIOL 422: Social Distancing In Nature icon

BIOL 422: Social Distancing In Nature

For students in Caitlin Fisher-Reid's BIOL 422 course to contribute to during the 2nd half of the Spring 20...
Buzz pollinated Angiosperms of New England icon

Buzz pollinated Angiosperms of New England

Evaluating the distribution of New Englands buzz pollinated angiosperms. Poricidal anthers are often associ...
Buzzards of New England icon

Buzzards of New England

Birds of prey have always been my favorite animals, and I want to see how close they are to home. I also w...
Caterpillar and Sawfly Host Plants of the NE US icon

Caterpillar and Sawfly Host Plants of the NE US

The goal of this project is to record caterpillars (larvae of Lepidoptera butterflies and moths and Symphyt...
Cattails vs Phragmites icon

Cattails vs Phragmites

Phragmites is an invasive species that is competing for habitat and resources with cattails. We are looking...
Citizen Science Course UMass Boston Spring 2016 icon

Citizen Science Course UMass Boston Spring 2016

A place to share the class observations
Following the Sea Potato, Colpomenia peregrina icon

Following the Sea Potato, Colpomenia peregrina

We're tracking the expanding range of an algae known as the Sea Potato. For more information, check out thi...
Freshwater Algae of New England and New York icon

Freshwater Algae of New England and New York

Microorganisms are incredibly diverse. A small sample of water from a local pond can contain dozens of spec...
GARDEN MICROHABITATS: container gardens underground icon

GARDEN MICROHABITATS: container gardens underground

Rewilding our yards can be an essential contribution to staving off the 6thMassExtinction currently in prog...
GARDEN MICROHABITATS: soil biota icon

GARDEN MICROHABITATS: soil biota

Rewilding my yard is being undertaken in order to count and increase the biodiversity supported on a 2.5 ac...
GARDEN MICROHABITATS: twine & post highways icon

GARDEN MICROHABITATS: twine & post highways

Since trying to rewild my 2.5 acre yard I have found that many items I took as organizing or practical for ...
Leaf Litter Life New England USA icon

Leaf Litter Life New England USA

LEAF LITTER LIFE The goal of this project is to explore what organisms associate with leaf litter piles ...
Lysimachia curation project icon

Lysimachia curation project

investigation of the diversity and distribution of Lysimachia in New England
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MIV

Moth Light / Bug Light New England and New York icon

Moth Light / Bug Light New England and New York

This project is to establish both common and occasional visitors to moth light set ups for educational appl...
Museum of Science Butterfly BioBlitz 2019 icon

Museum of Science Butterfly BioBlitz 2019

Welcome to the first-ever Museum of Science Butterfly BioBlitz! Become a citizen scientist and help us trac...
Natural Dye and Eco Print Plants of New England icon

Natural Dye and Eco Print Plants of New England

Hello fellow nature enthusiasts! I am currently studying at Indiana University for my MFA in Printmaking, b...
New England asters and goldenrods icon

New England asters and goldenrods

Crowd-sourcing project to help document and identify asters and goldenrods in New England. This project doe...
New England Plants ID-a-thon, Feb. 25-27, 2022 icon

New England Plants ID-a-thon, Feb. 25-27, 2022

Welcome to the 2022 ID-a-thon for New England plants! This is a 48-hour period in which we try to add ident...
New England's Organisms: Flora, Fauna, Fungi icon

New England's Organisms: Flora, Fauna, Fungi

All iNaturalist observations in the New England area are welcome (i.e., Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode I...
Night Gallery New England USA icon

Night Gallery New England USA

Observing nocturnal animals in natural settings can be a challenge but photographing them with reduced dist...
OLD Sunflower Project icon

OLD Sunflower Project

Observations of flowers by Rosemary’s sunflower team, Summer 2019. Preliminary data
Partridgeberry in New England icon

Partridgeberry in New England

Discover and track populations of partridgeberry (Mitchella repens) in the New England region of United Sta...
Pollinator Interactions on Plants (PIP) of the NE US icon

Pollinator Interactions on Plants (PIP) of the NE US

Take pictures of pollinators on plants to help Vermont Center for Ecostudies scientists assess flower prefe...
Potentilla & Prunus Curation Project icon

Potentilla & Prunus Curation Project

This is a curation of New England local Potentilla and Prunus genera and species in family Rosaceae. Proje...
Ranunculus Curation Project icon

Ranunculus Curation Project

An exploration of the diversity and distribution of Ranunculus.
Rubus icon

Rubus

A curation project of the New England Rubus
Snails and Slugs of New England icon

Snails and Slugs of New England

Discover and log the Land Snails and Slugs of the New England area! (Pulmonates and Gastropods)
Solidago and Hieracium Curation Project icon

Solidago and Hieracium Curation Project

An exploration of the distribution and diversity and Solidago of New England
The Encyclopedia of Leaf Scars: New England icon

The Encyclopedia of Leaf Scars: New England

A collection of observations that feature Leaf Scars in our region! Leaf Scars are an infinitely helpful bu...
The Encyclopedia of Seeds: New England icon

The Encyclopedia of Seeds: New England

A project to compile observations that include images of plant seeds, seedheads, fruit, cones, or anything ...
Tree Branch Falls: species microhabitat icon

Tree Branch Falls: species microhabitat

After most storms I end up picking up many fallen branches. These are not living branches in most cases for...
Trifolium Curation Project icon

Trifolium Curation Project

Exploration of the distribution and diversity of Trifolium in New England
Trillium Curation Project icon

Trillium Curation Project

Exploration, Identification, and Annotation of Trillium in New England.
vaccinium pyrolla icon

vaccinium pyrolla

collection and distribution of these plants
Vetches of New England icon

Vetches of New England

Vetches of the family Fabaceae
VINS 1st Annual Photo Contest icon

VINS 1st Annual Photo Contest

Submit your wildlife photos from 2016-2017! Simply include the following info with each submission: -T...
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