Wildlife Sightings - Conservation & Education. Phylo | DNA Puzzles. EteRNA - Played by Humans. Scored by Nature. Texas Invasives. Citizen Science: Wildlife Observation Data Collection. Skip to main navigation Many people enjoy observing wildlife in many different ways. Occasionally there are opportunities for you to help the Bureau of Wildlife collect valuable data. In some cases this may require special effort but, in many cases all that is required is recording what you see while bird watching, hunting, hiking, scouting, etc. See the links below and in the right hand columm of this page for current volunteer opportunities and results of past efforts.
National Moth Week | Exploring Nighttime Nature. Bat Detective. The sonograms on the site are from thousands of hours of ultrasonic recordings made on bat surveys by volunteers all over the world. Many of the surveys were made through the Indicator Bats Program (iBats) which monitors bat populations globally by listening to the sounds bats use to navigate and find food. iBats is a partnership project between national conservation groups in many different countries and the Zoological Society of London and The Bat Conservation Trust, and is funded by The Darwin Initiative and The Leverhulme Trust. The recordings on Bat Detective were mostly made by iBats volunteers using special ultrasonic detectors. These detectors listen to sounds for 340ms snapshots at a time and then slows down the sound by ten times and plays back the sound through the detector.
The detector then listens again for 340ms and so on until the survey is finished. Bats use sound at high frequencies, so slowing down the sound means that the frequency is lowered and it can be recorded. About. Monarch Larva Monitoring Project (MLMP) - Home. iSpot | your place to share nature. Wildlife Health Event Reporter: Home. Large Pelagics Research Center - Improves Management of Large Pelagic Marine Species. Get involved! Help the Large Pelagics Research Center improve scientific understanding of large pelagic species by supporting and participating in co-operative research projects.
The LPRC initiated its Tag A Tiny program in 2006 to study the annual migration paths and habitat use of juvenile Atlantic bluefin tuna. Through this co-operative tagging program, which uses tags from The Billfish Foundation (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) recreational anglers and charter captains catch, measure and release juvenile bluefin with conventional “spaghetti”-ID tags. To date, 1,368 recreational fishermen have helped LPRC to tag 1,762 bluefin, mostly juveniles from 1-4 years old, and some “medium” size fish, nearing 70 inches. All of the records are entered into the Billfish Foundation, NMFS, and ICCAT databases. If you are a recreational fisherman, please consider joining our tagging efforts.
Click on the tags on the map below to see the number of fish tagged in each general area by Tag A Tiny participants. 3. YardMap. The CERES S'COOL Project. Bird Studies Canada. Evolution MegaLab. Did you know that thanks to a common little snail you can find in your garden, in the park or under a hedge, you can see evolution in your own back yard? OK, so evolution is a very slow process. Life on Earth started about three-and-a-half billion years ago! It's the tiny changes accumulating over a long, long time that got us here. And you can see some of those tiny steps by joining the Evolution MegaLab. Banded snails It may look like banded snails are dressed-to-kill, but really they are dressed not to be killed.
Help us find out Have shell colours and bands changed where there are fewer thrushes? Shell colour also affects how sensitive a snail is to temperature. Have shell colours changed with our warming climate? Learn more! Find out more in The science page. About | SKYWARN® National | Severe Weather Spotters, Local SKYWARN® Groups, Severe Weather Information, SKYWARN® Training. The effects of severe weather are felt every year by many Americans. To obtain critical weather information, NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS), part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, established SKYWARN® with partner organizations. SKYWARN® is a volunteer program with nearly 290,000 trained severe weather spotters. These volunteers help keep their local communities safe by providing timely and accurate reports of severe weather to the National Weather Service. Although SKYWARN® spotters provide essential information for all types of weather hazards, the main responsibility of a SKYWARN® spotter is to identify and describe severe local storms.
Since the program started in the 1970s, the information provided by SKYWARN® spotters, coupled with Doppler radar technology, improved satellite and other data, has enabled NWS to issue more timely and accurate warnings for tornadoes, severe thunderstorms and flash floods. Who is Eligible? How Can I Get Involved? Lab of Ornithology: PigeonWatch. Thanks for many great years of pigeonwatching! Unfortunately we have decided to discontinue the project. If you're still interested in pigeons, or want to expand your data collection and bird identification skills, you can participate in one of these great citizen science projects: Celebrate Urban BirdsPigeons are one of the 15 focal species for data collection.
Besides collecting data for these 15 birds, Celebrate Urban Birds helps participants in urban areas learn how to appreciate birds through the arts and attract birds by teaching small space gardening practices. What do FeederWatch data tell us? Who are the people behind FeederWatch? Participants across North America are at the core of Project FeederWatch. But besides the army of citizen scientists collecting information on birds at their feeders, several people in the United States and Canada are responsible for archiving and analyzing the data and the day-to-day operation of the project. Project FeederWatch is administered in the United States by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (CLO) and in Canada by Bird Studies Canada (BSC).
Emma GreigProject Leader, U.S. Emma Greig joined Project FeederWatch in 2013. She is actively learning the ropes and is excited to start analyzing data and writing scientific journal articles. Anne Marie JohnsonSusan NewmanProject Assistants, U.S. Anne Marie Johnson and Susan Newman do a great job of keeping FeederWatch running smoothly.
Kerrie WilcoxProject Leader, Canada Kerrie Wilcox took over Project FeederWatch at Bird Studies Canada in the fall of 2005. Kris DobneyRosie KirtonProject Assistants, Canada. Citizen Science. "I have 144 sixth grade students who FeederWatch. They are thrilled that scientists really use their data! " Bob Welch, 6-th grade teacherGreenville, Ohio Project: Project FeederWatch "The internet has certainly broadened our horizons. Jane HowellAurora, Illinois Project: NestCams. Home | ZomBee Watch. Home Page. Bee Hunt! Overview We hope you will find Bee Hunt a great way to teach and learn about pollination ecology and other aspects of natural history. Bee Hunt is a participatory science project.
It's your research. You are the scientists. By following our methods, you will collect and contribute high-quality data. Collectively your findings will help us all better understand and manage pollinators that are important in growing food and maintaining healthy natural ecosystems. Bee Hunt is open to anyone, anywhere, whenever pollinators are flying. There are four ways to participate in Bee Hunt: inventory pollinators at your site with photographs, compare species in two patches, provide nesting sites for mason bees and study when they are active, use bowls and soapy water to collect insects for a more complete inventory of species. Before you read further, please watch our 5 minute video about Bee Hunt. If you set up an inventory, you will decide when and where to study species.