The City Nature Challenge Starts Tomorrow!
As of 12:01AM tonight our time, the Western Mass City Nature Challenge begins! The weather looks to be not perfect for the weekend, but at least there’s no heavy rain or 90-degree days forecast.
We hope you have a wonderful time and see many species and places that thrill you! As always, feel free to ask questions as a comment on this journal post (or on any journal post). We’ll keep you up-to-date each day with cool sightings and how the numbers are mounting up.
Tomorrow’s workshops and field trips include:
Learn iNaturalist for Nature Appreciation and Citizen Science
Friday, April 28, 2023; 11AM – 12:30PM; Science and Engineering Library in the Lederle Graduate Research Center, UMass Amherst
This workshop begins in the Learning Studio of the Science and Engineering Library. We'll get to know the iNaturalist app, how it works, and what the web interface looks like. Then we'll step outside and put it into practice with our individual devices. Please bring a smartphone or tablet with iNaturalist already installed. To sign up, follow the link to the event page and register with your name and email.
Learn iNaturalist for Nature Appreciation and Citizen Science - VIRTUAL
Friday, April 28, 2023; 2:30PM – 3:30 PM
This workshop takes place entirely online over Zoom. We'll get to know the iNaturalist app, how it works, and what the web interface looks like. This will include an observation taken live on the smartphone app and uploading previously taken photos through the web interface. To sign up, follow the link to the event page and register with your name and email. You will be sent the Zoom link.
Bioblitz at Hitchcock Center
Friday, April 28th, 2023; 4:30-5:30PM; Hitchcock Center for the Environment, 845 West St. Amherst
Join Melanie Radik and Lynn Harper, the co-organizers of the Western Mass City Nature Challenge, for an hour or so exploration of the woods and fields of the Hitchcock Center. This walk is geared towards those who are new to iNaturalist and the City Nature Challenge. If possible, please bring a smartphone or tablet with iNaturalist already installed.
And because one of your co-organizers (that would be Lynn Harper) is always forgetting something when she goes on a hike, we want to ask: Do you have lunch, water, and snacks packed? Your cell phone and/or camera? Extra batteries? Is everything fully charged? All the appropriate charging cords for your car? An external power brick? Tick/insect repellent? Sunscreen? Binoculars, maybe your spotting scope? How about a loupe for tiny mosses or insects? (Or just look through your binoculars the wrong way.) An aerial net, dipnet, dredge net, or beating sheet, should your fancy run in those directions? Tall waterproof boots, if you’re going into wetlands (or just sneakers you don’t mind getting wet and a change of dry socks for afterwards)? Digital or paper maps? Are you sure you have enough snacks?
Have fun!
---Lynn Harper and Melanie Radik, co-organizers
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