Community Science Volunteer Opportunity - City Nature Challenge at Jepson Prairie
April 25- City Nature Challenge at Jepson Prairie
Registration Required
**Please email volunteer@solanolandtrust.org to resolve registration link issues
10:00-12:00pm
Started in 2016 as a competition between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the City Nature Challenge (CNC) has grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find and document wildlife in and around their cities, using biodiversity recording apps and platforms like iNaturalist. Run by the Community Science teams at the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the CNC is an annual four-day global urban bioblitz at the end of April, where cities are in a collaboration-meets-friendly-competition to see not only what can be accomplished when we all work toward a common goal, but also which city can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people in the event.
Meet at the Jepson Prairie Parking Area at 10:00. Dress in layers as weather is variable at this property, event will include a demonstration on how to use iNaturalist software. Then we will go out unto the property and practice identifying species. No experience identifying these plants is necessary – training will be provided.
