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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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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Consumers and Producers

Guilford County is home to a wide array of consumers and producers. Let's learn more about our ...

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Consumers and Producers

Guilford County is home to a wide array of consumers and producers. Let's learn more about our ...

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Hoosier National Forest - Get Outdoors Day

This mission was created as part of the Hoosier National Forests celebration of Get Outdoors Day. ...

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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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GAC Arboretum field trip

Document our field trip to the arboretum

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Hairy Woodpecker (femaly and nestling) spotted by Jellis Alameda, California, USA 13 seconds ago

Female Hairy Woodpecker and a nestling almost ready to fledge.

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Mourning cloak caterpillar commented on by Maria dB Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA a minute ago

Thanks, Luis. This was the first time I saw the caterpillar, too. So interesting to see the caterpillar form and then the butterfly.

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Oxalis commented on by ForestDragon Jonesville, Louisiana, USA a minute ago

Very likely Oxalis stricta, Yellow Woodsorrel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis_stricta

See what you think.

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Red-shouldered Hawk (nestling) spotted by QWMom Georgia, USA 3 minutes ago

As the leaves fill in more on the trees in my backyard, it's getting harder to get my camera to focus on the RSH nest in my backyard. Despite the cover, I am seeing lots more blurry white movements in the nest and can tell it's getting bigger. I still can't tell if there's more than one nestling as I never see more than one little eyeball peeping at me through the pine needles in the nest at any given time.

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Spiny Soft Shell Turtle favorited by Brett Oklahoma, USA 3 minutes ago

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greater celandine spotted by WannesVanBeeck Ranst, Vlaanderen, Belgium 4 minutes ago

During todays trip we found a greater celandine which was perfect suitable for the mission: Antwerp's Alphabet of Genera. Spotted with: NielsVanPutte and Aciinonyx

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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