Biodiversity of Alabama's Journal

Today we hit 100,000 observations in the Biodiversity of Alabama iNaturalist Project. Thanks to all the members who have submitted observations, and keep up the good work!

Our iNaturalist project is mentioned today in a WBHM produced segment on the possible decline of insects, and how local citizen scientists are helping to gather data on insects. Click on the link below to hear the segment and read the transcript.

https://news.wbhm.org/feature/2018/dont-swat-alabamas-bugs-may-disappearing/

Users may notice that the project page format looks different that it did previously. This is because we have converted our project from iNaturalist's tradition format to their new collection format to take advantage of some new features.

Here is a link to the iNaturalist blog about some of change for collection type projects. https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/18375-updates-to-collection-and-umbrella-projects

If you have any questions or concerns resulting from this change leave a comment.

No Alabama cities have previously participated in iNaturalist's annual City Nature Challenge, but I'm hopeful that will change next year. If any of our members are interested in organizing participation for their city please see the link below about an on-boarding process that iNaturalist is having next week. We hope to at least organize a Metro Birmingham project, but it would be great to also get Montgomery, Huntsville and Mobile projects organized as well. All we need are members that are willing to help organize participation in their local areas.

https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/18404-want-your-area-to-be-in-the-2019-city-nature-challenge-read-on