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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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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Crystal Cove Environmental Study Loop Plants

Help Crystal Cove State Park create a digital field guide of plants at the Environmental Study ...

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Crystal Cove Raptors

Help Crystal Cove State Park understand which raptors can be found at the Environmental Study Loop. ...

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Weather

A catalogue of interesting and beautiful weather phenomena.

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South Dakota Backyard Biodiversity

When your flower beds or vegetable garden is in bloom this summer, pick a day (or a few days) to go ...

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Bats of Africa

The bat fauna of Africa and surrounding islands boasts nearly 300 species, but the distributions of ...

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Trees of Winkler

Trees form an integral part of the landscape of the modern city. Though fewer are indigenous to the ...

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Camouflage creatures

Many creatures mimic their surroundings or hides very well with the surrounding. Pet, wild, or ...

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Mission Mollusk

This mission aims to spot, and identify as many different species of Mollusk as possible. Marine, ...

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Salisbury Middle School Biodiverstiy

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

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the sarawak adventure

documenting and sharing the wildlife you encounter in and around the sarawak state.,discover the ...

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Animals in urban areas of France & Benelux.

Animals in European urban area. In Europe there are numerous areas where nature has given way to ...

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Northeastern US Trees

Creating a mission for my kids camping trip this weekend.

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Plants of New Hampshire

This mission is meant to showcase the variety of plant life that can be found in New Hampshire.

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Grasses of North America

Since there aren't many field guides dedicated to grasses, and most of those are illustrated with ...

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Unknown spotting commented on by LeanneGardner Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia 35 seconds ago

Hi Shanna! This is a Hydrangea, though I must say it looks a little unwell. The interesting thing about these plants is you can change the colour of the flowers by altering the pH of your soil. Acidic soil will produce blue flowers & they become more oink as the soil becomes more alkaline. I've also seen white varieties too. They were a very popular shrub, say when our Granparents were passing around cuttings with their neighbours :)

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Common Nightingale favorited by Jemma Horsham, England, United Kingdom a minute ago

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Amaryllis, Hippeastrum Cultivar favorited by NuwanChathuranga Laguna, Philippines a minute ago

Hippeastrum Herb., is a genus of about 90 species and 600+ hybrids and cultivars of bulbous plants in the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae. It is native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. The common name "amaryllis" is mainly used for cultivars of genus Hippeastrum. The photos were taken in a span of 4 days (May 16-May 19), showing still folded blooms up to when the flowers were all opened. Here's a related spotting of red and white amaryllis - http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/225....

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Mated Queen Green Ant favorited by Jemma Laguna, Philippines a minute ago

Oecophylla smaragdina Fabricius, 1775, of family Formicidae, commonly called Weaver Ant, Green Ant, Green Tree Ant, and Orange Gaster. This is a mated queen weaver ant. Weaver ant colonies are founded by one or more mated queens. Once mated, she looks for a nest site, gets rid of her wings, seals herself into a small chamber and lays a small batch of eggs. A queen lays her first clutch of eggs on a leaf and protects and feeds the larvae until they develop into mature workers.

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Pigeon Orchid favorited by NuwanChathuranga Laguna, Philippines a minute ago

Commonly called Pigeon Orchid, Purse-Shaped Dendrobium, Bag-Shaped Dendrobium. It produces white, 5cm wide, fragrant flowers with a yellow tinted throat. The bloom cycle is triggered 9 days after a sudden drop in temperature (at least 5.5 °C or 10 °F), usually as a result of rain, although the same effect can be artificially created. Dendrobium crumenatum flowers are fragrant, but only lasts for a day or two. Source: http://orchids.wikia.com/wiki/Dendrobium....

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Winged Queen Green Ant commented on by AgnesAdiqueTalavera Laguna, Philippines a minute ago

Thanks Lauren! :)

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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