City Nature Challenge Final Results - Go Texas!

RESULTS
Overall (all 16 cities together):
Observations: 124,092
Species: 8557
People participating: 4051

The "big three" stats:
Most observations: Dallas/Fort Worth
Most species: Houston
Most people participating: Los Angeles

Observation ratios:
Lowest observation to species ratio (so most observations that resulted in new species for that area's CNC): Duluth/Twin Ports
Highest average number of observations per participant: Dallas/Fort Worth

Verifiable & Research Grade stats:
Highest percentage of verifiable observations (aka, eligible for research grade - evidence of the organism, not captive or cultivated): Dallas/Fort Worth
Highest percentage of verifiable observations that made it to research grade: Chicago

Increase in engagement compared to the same 5 days last year (4/15-19/16):
Greatest xfold increase in observations: Salt Lake City (Wasatch Front)
Greatest xfold increase in species: Duluth/Twin Ports
Greatest xfold increase in people making observations: Salt Lake City (Wasatch Front)

What did the City Nature Challenge add to each city? (aka, comparison of totals for each city up to 4/13/17, and then at the end of the CNC):
Greatest xfold increase in observations: Duluth/Twin Ports
City that added the most new species: Houston
City that added the most new iNat users: Los Angeles

And overall we added 3077 new species to all 16 cities combined and 5689 new iNaturalist users!

Amazing results.
Thank you all for participating and I look forward to next year's challenge.

Posted on April 22, 2017 09:06 PM by texasnaturetrackers