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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Arthropods of Kentucky

This mission will document all types of Arthropods of Kentucky. Including insects, spiders, ...

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Island of Malta

Malta is a very small island nation south of Sicily in the Mediterranean.

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Phenology in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks

Your mission is to collect phenology observations on species found in Grand Teton and Yellowstone ...

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National Moth Week 2013 Ohio

http://nationalmothweek.org/2013-registration/ July 20-28th, 2013 My son John, daughter Hope, ...

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Pittsburgh Biodiversity Survey

The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy needs your help to document the diverse range of organisms that ...

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Spady Species

Our students are posting spottings of plants and animals that reside on our school campus. Our ...

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Argentina Wildlife

Argentina Wildlife by SongYanzhi http://projectnoah.org/spotting/

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Niwot Biodiversity Gang

See something you don't know or are interested about? Is it anywhere in the front range? You should ...

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Nature of Piedmont Wildlife Center

Living things found in and around Leigh Farm Park and the ground of Piedmont Wildlife Center, ...

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florida birds

this mission is for all the bird lovers out there

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Exploring Your Local Ecosystem

In class today, you learned about producers and consumers. As we continue our study of wildlife and ...

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My Local Ecosystem

In class today, you learned about producers and consumers. As we continue our study of wildlife and ...

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Charles Carroll Middle School Bioblitz

Charles Carroll Middle School in New Carrollton, Maryland is conducting a schoolyard bioblitz in ...

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Salisbury Middle School Biodiversity

Students and teachers at Salisbury Middle School are collecting and sharing wildlife observations ...

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World Science Festival Cicada Count

We're calling all citizen scientists to help track 17-Year Cicadas! Join the World Science Festival ...

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checkered keelback favorited by MateoBuhayTomas-mendez India 22 seconds ago

This snake's eyes are rather small, and shorter than its distance from the nostril in the adult. Its rostral scale is visible from above. The internasal scales are much narrowed anteriorly and subtriangular, with the anterior angle truncated and as long as the prefrontal scales. The frontal scale is longer than its distance from the end of the snout, and as long as the parietals or a little shorter. The loreal is nearly as long as it is deep. There is one preocular and three (rarely four) post-oculars. Its temporals are 2+2 or 2+3. There are normally nine upper labials, with the fourth and fifth entering the eye and five lower labials in contact with the anterior chin-shields, which are shorter than the posterior. Scales are arranged in 19 rows, strongly keeled, with outer rows smooth. Ventrals are at 125–158, anal divided, with subcaudals at 64–90. Coloration is very variable, consisting of dark spots arranged quincuncially and often separated by a whitish network, or of black longitudinal bands on a pale ground, or of dark cross bands, with or without whitish spots. Two oblique black streaks, one below and the other behind the eye, are nearly constant, lower parts white, with or without black margins to the shields.(wiki)

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Philippine Pit Viper favorited by MateoBuhayTomas-mendez Metro Manila, Philippines 23 seconds ago

"The Crotalinae, commonly known as pit vipers or crotaline snakes, are a subfamily of venomous vipers found in Asia and the Americas. They are distinguished by the presence of a heat-sensing pit organ located between the eye and the nostril on either side of the head."

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Unknown spotting commented on by CostaBoyJack Cheshire, Massachusetts, USA 23 seconds ago

very awesome

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Blue Malaysian Coral Snake favorited by MateoBuhayTomas-mendez Shah Alam, Malaysia 23 seconds ago

(blue Malaysian coral snake)

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Rough green snake favorited by MateoBuhayTomas-mendez Tennessee, USA 23 seconds ago

Opheodrys aestivus, commonly known as the rough green snake, is a nonvenomous North American colubrid. It is sometimes called grass snake or green grass snake, but these names are more commonly applied to the smooth green snake (Opheodrys vernalis). The European colubrid called grass snake (Natrix natrix) is unrelated. The rough green snake is docile, often allowing close approach by humans, and seldom bites.

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Spectacled cobra favorited by MateoBuhayTomas-mendez India 24 seconds ago

Scales smooth,glossy.presence of spectacled marking makes identification easy. size ranges from 0.8 feet to 7.25 feet. easy to identify from other similar looking snakes like rat snake,banded racer is that the third and fourth supralabial scales of this snake touches the eye.active by day and night.feeds on rodents and toads.very common snake with medical importance.Fast and alert but very shy.tend to escape most time if encountered.climbs well.

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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