Younger Lagoon Reserve Bioblitz

Join staff from the UCSC Natural Reserves, Ken Norris Center for Natural History, the California Academy of Sciences, legions of enthusiastic UCSC students & alumni, and members of the Santa Cruz community as we come together for a morning exploring and documenting Younger Lagoon Reserve's incredible biodiversity. A bioblitz is a community event that brings together a wide variety of people to rapidly inventory the living organisms found in a particular place. Younger Lagoon Reserve's wide variety of habitats and unique geophysical setting have resulted in a great number of species that call the reserve home. We'll be bioblitzing in the morning from 9 am-1 pm. We'll be using iNaturalist, a citizen science website and app, to photograph and geographically pinpoint our findings and will come back together at the end of the shift to upload our records, share stories, and help each other with identifications. We hope to grow our reserve's species lists, but most importantly celebrate our fellow creatures and each other! Refreshments will be served at the end of each shift when we gather back together. Smartphones or tablets with the free iNaturalist app installed aren't required, but certainly bring them along if you have them. The Campus Natural Reserve will concurrently host two bioblitz events from 9 am-1 pm and 2 pm-6 pm.

To sign-up for this event via UCSC's Alumni Weekend website, click on the link below:
https://securelb.imodules.com/s/1069/index.aspx?sid=1069&gid=1&pgid=2089&cid=3848

For more information:
http://norriscenter.ucsc.edu/education/norris-center-events/bio-blitz.html

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