Project Noah

Project Noah is a tool to explore and document wildlife and a platform to harness the power of citizen scientists everywhere.

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Wildlife at Red Top Mtn.

Help the Rangers at Red Top Mountain State Park keep track of the various species of wildlife that ...

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Just Amazing

It is to see all the amazing living things we have here and to see all those things come together.

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Rays of the World

To document the distribution and abundance of rays, stingrays, guitar fish and other elasmobranchs.

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Great Lakes Backyard Habitats

The purpose of this mission is to gather and compile an extensive list of flora and fauna that ...

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Prairie Builders Schools

Mission to schoolyard prairies

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Flora N Fauna

Its about to protect the biodiversity of the Kochi metro city. 1.The spottings should be from ...

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Snakes and reptiles

Snakes and reptiles worldwide

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Sea turtle foraging grounds

We want to document all possible sea turtle foraging grounds in the Costa Rican Pacific.

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California Mojave Flora & Fauna

The Mojave Desert, the driest and smallest of the North American deserts, occupies only 7 percent ...

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Wisconsin Trees and Plants ID

To identify and become familiar with the names of plants and trees we see in Wisconsin.

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Swansfield Wildlife Tour

Please share ANY interesting things you spot in the Swansfield community. These can be insects, ...

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Caterpillars of Eastern North America

It seems that everywhere we look we see butterflies and moths, but we never seem to think about ...

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Exotic Flowers of the Western Ghats

Mission to find out the exotic flowers of western ghats and beautiful flowers around the nearby ...

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German Flowers and Birds

For all German users, its this a mission to collect pictures from birds and flowers. I hope you ...

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Animales o plantas invasoras o plagas. Invasive plants or pest

Animales o plantas invasoras. Invasive plants or animals. Las invasiones biológicas pueden ocurrir ...

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Unknown spotting favorited by Atul Escondido, California, USA 19 seconds ago

Shiny tan moth with plain wings other than two small white eyes.

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Owlet Moth favorited by Atul Escondido, California, USA 30 seconds ago

Brown and gray moth with patterned wings.

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Spotted Eye Hoverfly favorited by SatyenMehta Maharashtra, India 34 seconds ago

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Red Costate Tiger Moth commented on by bayucca Dasmariñas, Cavite, Philippines a minute ago

Confirmed by the Master himself, that's cool!!! I was still thinking about this different body colors and markings. But I am happy that I was with my guess not completely out of the row ;-)...

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Secretary Bird favorited by Lizzy Kenya a minute ago

Huge bird "taller" than 1 metre. Although it is called secretary, it is not gentle at all! from "serpentarius", you could know it mainly feeds on snakes, & sometimes mice, lizards, bird eggs, etc. Instead of pecking around, it stamps on the prey to stop its motion and pick it up & drop on the ground hard. What a violent bird @@

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Greater Coucal commented on by SatyenMehta Gujarat, India 2 minutes ago

Wonderful spotting!

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Mapping Nature on Your Smartphone

For the developers at New York start-up Networked Organisms, smartphones are the butterfly nets of the 21st Century. Their tool, Project Noah, lets people upload photos of plants and wildlife around them, creating a map of the natural world and contributing to scientific research in the process.

WSJ
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What kind of beetle? This app knows

Bespectacled scientists of yore would carry around hefty field guides, made up of hundreds of pages of text and photos. But these days, smartphone owners have a lighter option: an app called Project Noah, which aims to help people identify plants and animals as well as collect data from "citizen scientists" about where certain species are located.

CNN
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Designing ecosystems for talent development

Project Noah enables us to be part of a more focused online community where we can learn more about wildlife around us and contribute to scientific research. It pulls participants into deeper, more meaningful engagement by enabling people to go on “missions” to collectively map changes based on sightings.

The Economist
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A smart way to save wildlife

A modern invention that may also hold the key to saving species in the future. Project Noah is a global study that encourages nature lovers to document the wildlife they encounter, using a purpose built phone app and web community. In addition to the virtual "collection" of species, Project Noah encourages citizen science by linking up with existing surveys including the International Spider Survey and the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network.

BBC
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Dial-a-Class

New mobile applications include a tool called NOAH that lets you take cellphone pictures of bugs and trees and then sends back an identification of the exact type in as little as 24 hours.

NY TIMES
With support from National Geographic