Update
Well all, it was a super-close competition! Looks like our friends in LA County pushed ahead of us in the eleventh hour, but it was neck-and-neck there for a bit!
The official results will be announced tomorrow, for Earth Day. We're going to pull the final tallies of observations / species / people tonight at 10 pm, so if you have any other observations from the week that you haven't uploaded yet, try to get them in this evening! And feel free to keep helping with IDs, if you can.
Overall, we're so impressed with the enthusiasm around this competition and the amazing numbers of observations you all made this week! This same week last year (noon 4/16 - noon 4/23), there were only 1776 observations made in the San Francisco Bay Area - meaning we had an almost 6-fold increase in observations for the City Nature Challenge! Amazing! And we also added new species that had never been observed on iNaturalist in the Bay Area, which is super-cool.
Thanks for being awesome, San Francisco Bay Area.
-Alison (@kestrel) & Rebecca (@rebeccafay)
California Academy of Sciences Citizen Science Team
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Just an incredible competition -- inspirational, really! Citizen science is the biggest winner here. :) Congrats to all of the participants -- I hope they realize that people from around the world watched this event and will be using the data for years and years to come. Those observations are meaningful -- each of them! :)
Thinking about a TX competition for next year... DFW vs Austin vs San Antonio vs Houston?!?
This was SO FUN. Excited for next year already-- and are you going to share which observations were new for iNaturalist?
Wow, this was so exciting! I won't lie, I am glad LA (maybe) won, but so close... Maybe next time Vermont can join in (if you can move the timing into the summer).
Maybe since Davis fell into the boundary i should have done my IDs for the bay area. Maybe next year :)
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