Please bring the following: - laptop and power supply - any field guides you've got for the area - a dish to share if you'd like for the potluck - a reusable plate, cup, and utensils

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Tuesday, April 30

City Nature Challenge 2024 South Bay ID Party

Identify iNaturalist observations for the City Nature Challenge 2024

By Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful

Date and time

Tuesday, April 30 · 6 - 9pm PDT

Location

Willow Glen Branch Library

1157 Minnesota Avenue San Jose, CA 95125

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 1 day before event

Eventbrite's fee is nonrefundable.

Agenda

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Overview of Event and Potluck

We'll lay out our food, load our plates, and have a brief overview and instruction on what we're doing and how to use the iNaturalist Identify Tool.

6:30 PM - 8:45 PM

Observation Identification Begins

If you're knowledgeable about species, start confirming them on iNaturalist. If you are not that knowledgeable yet, you can help classify the "Unknowns"

8:45 PM - 9:00 PM

Close Out

Wrap up with a highlight of what we accomplished today and how you can continue identifying species through May 5th.

About this event

3 hours

Join BioBlitz Club and Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful for our second South Bay ID Party! At the end of April each year, we host BioBlitz events as part of the City Nature Challenge - a global event where hundreds of cities from around the world will compete for the highest number of observations, observers, and species on iNaturalist. The entire Bay Area is participating as one city, and in order to help us win, we need to identify as many observations as possible. With over 25 events in the region, that’s a lot of observations to confirm!

During the event we will demonstrate how to identify observations on iNaturalist. You can get ready by watching this video. Afterwards participants could identify observations on their own laptops, individually or in small groups.

Even if you don't know how to identify organisms to species level, you can still help! By sorting "unknown" observations to "plants", "mammals", "insects", or "fungi", experts in those fields can find observations that need to be identified.

Register to receive more details!

Photo credit: Merav Vonshak

Organized by

Keep Coyote Creek Beautiful

We host events to get people engaged and outside to learn or help the creek through creek and trail cleanups, community science projects, restoration events, weeding parties, and recreational activities.