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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Grab a photograph of an interesting organism and share it with the community.

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Rose Drive 5th Know Your School

This is a Noah project to help us become familiar with Project Noah, uploading spottings and ...

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Maryland Day Moths

Learn flight times and distributions of diurnal moths in Maryland

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GAC Arboretum field trip

Document our field trip to the arboretum

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Catania BioBlitz

Let's start mapping and getting info about Catania wildlife, add your spottings to this mission!

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Hops Hunters

Summit Land Conservancy is looking to tap into the brewing business. With over 2500 acres of ...

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Purgatory Chasm Biodiversity

We will be exploring Purgatory Chasm - recording the biodiversity of the park and evaluating the ...

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Native Orchids of Northeast

The goal of this mission is to post your pictures of NATIVE orchids found throughout Northeast. ...

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Sit Spot

This is an exercise to observe one small natural space very closely over time, using all of your ...

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Migrating birds

Only applies to birds that migrate from or to Central Europe during the change of the seasons ...

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backyard mammals of PA

to take photos of mammals in pennsylvania

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Backyard Animals

Find animals in your backyard, or in one of your friend's backyard, or at the park. Observe the ...

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Geometric shapes of the south east U.S.

Florida's unique environment is home to many interesting patterns. This mission is out to ...

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BW 4th grade Lakeshore Field Experience

The purpose of this mission is to photograph and identify local wildlife at Lakeshore Park.

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Snakes of South Africa

Share your photos of snakes from all over South Africa. Add descriptive notes about where you made ...

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Fishes of Kentucky

"With more than 90,000 miles of rivers, streams and creeks throughout the state, Kentucky boasts ...

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Unknown spotting commented on by Sckel Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico just now

Ella dejó escapar un líquido de color naranja con un olor similar al de persevejos, pero más leves

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/23577039

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Unknown spotting spotted by GustavoMorejon Luis Vargas Torres (Cab. en Playa de Oro), Esmeraldas, Ecuador 14 seconds ago

A beautiful and big orb weaver spider (3.4 cm long) from the rainforest of Manduriacu, north west of Quito, Ecuador.

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Glass frog favorited by bee.jacbs Heredia, Heredia, Costa Rica 39 seconds ago

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American black bear spotted by LuisStevens California, USA a minute ago

This was the first time I had ever seen a bear in the wild! This mother was with her cub. Just an unforgettable experience. To my surprise this "Black" bear was blonde not black. I later learned that about 91% of the bears in this area are blond.

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Asian Koel spotted by Malcolm Wilton-Jones Malaysia 2 minutes ago

This is a male. These stayed elusive for most of our visit, being heard much more often than seen. On this last day they all displayed well.

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Malayan Water Monitor commented on by jamiewgoodspeed Singapore, Singapore 2 minutes ago

hes a fatty :)

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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