The results are in!

Personal Bioblitz Spring 2019 results
The Spring 2019 Personal Bioblitz ran between March 1 and May 15, 2019, for the sixth year in a row. Participants reported in any wild or naturalized species they saw any place in the world during this time period. Observations were uploaded to a project on iNaturalist using a smartphone app or website application. The iNaturalist website functions as a forum and database for help with species identification, storage of photos, mapping of locations, and automatic creations of species lists, both for each participant and for the project as a whole. The observations are also adding to the global depository of species observation data that is available to researchers and citizen scientists worldwide. This project was sponsored by the Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers University, with participants from all over the world.
Results of Personal Bioblitz 2019, report by Lena Struwe
Total number of observations: 20105 (this is the second best ever, we had more in 2017)

Total number of taxa seen: 3978 (this is the third best ever, we had more in 2017 and 2018)

Active participants: 48

Most Reported Species:
Garlic Mustard (104 observations)
Black cherry (96 observations)
Dandelion (95 observations)
Common Mugwort (91 observations)
Common Greenshield Lichen (65)

Who saw most taxa (species and higher taxonomic units)?
Annika Lindqvist (annikaml): 878 taxa !!! congratulations!
Sara Rall (srall): 667 taxa
Jason R Grant (jasonrgrant): 525 taxa
Eva Hedström (evahedstrom): 459 taxa
Erik Danielsen (er1kksen): 429 taxa

Who reported the most observations?
Sara Rall (srall): 6128 observations
Annika Lindqvist (annikaml): 2442 observations
Erik Danielsen (er1kksen): 1539 observations
Eva Hedström (evahedstrom): 1025 observations
Jason R Grant (jasonrgrant): 997 observations

More details at our iNaturalist project page:
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/personal-bioblitz-spring-2019

Congratulations everybody!

Report by Lena Struwe (lena.struwe@rutgers.edu), 5/29/19

Posted on May 29, 2019 12:31 PM by vilseskog