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Join the PERSONAL BIOBLITZ 2020, a Rutgers citizen science project that has gone global.

WANTED: All the wild species you can discover in your everyday life.

Geese, squirrels, magnolias, spring flowers, stinkhorn, slime molds, eels, apple snails, and other crawlies and bugs – anything counts and you don’t need to know what they are. Just photograph, upload, and learn from others. Or share all exciting things you see and already know.

For the 7th year the Chrysler Herbarium at Rutgers (SEBS) is arranging this global citizen science project to help everybody and anybody to explore the everyday biodiversity around us. Lets see how many species we can report together. You can learn something new about things you might not have seen before. Beginners, experts, young and old, all are welcome to join!

When? 76 days, 1 March to 15 May 2020, 24/7, anywhere.

How? Discover, see, listen, photograph, learn, identify (and get help to identify, beginners welcome!) by uploading your observations to our iNaturalist project.

Why? Learn more about what lives right around you - birds, plants, microbes, algae, fungi, insects, mollusks, mammals… and, many of the observations will help scientists understand our world’s biodiversity.

Who? Anybody associated with Rutgers University (including friends and family of any Rutgers’ people, alumni, students, previous bioblitzers, etc.).

What? Any wild species anywhere in the world that you personally experience (some special rules apply, see website). You can report a little or a lot of observations, all up to you.

Find out more and join for free here:
2020 Project Website: https://tinyurl.com/PB-info2020
About the Personal Bioblitz: http://tinyurl.com/RUPBabout
Mailing list: http://tinyurl.com/RutgersBioblitzMail
iNaturalist, Personal Bioblitz 2020: https://tinyurl.com/PersonalBioblitz2020
iNaturalist, Flora and Fauna of Rutgers University: http://tinyurl.com/iNatFFRU
Facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/RutgersBioblitzFB

Questions? Send an e-mail to Lena Struwe, lena.struwe@rutgers.edu.

See you on the iNaturalist project website! Good luck!

Lena Struwe