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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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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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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Oysterling spotted by Leuba Victoria, Australia a minute ago

Broadly convex soft white caps attached to wood by a very short eccentric stipe. Caps were a pale creamy white and smooth with slightly translucent margins. Gills were bright white, close and radiating from point of attachment out to the margins.

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Eurasian Oystercatcher commented on by Gaia80 Vestfold, Norway 2 minutes ago

Thanks Martin! This was very helpful indeed.

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Indian flying fox favorited by HordjoAnigPanandigan Medak, India 6 minutes ago

The Indian flying fox (Pteropus giganteus) is a species of megabat in the Pteropodidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, China, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Also known as the greater Indian fruit bat, it lives in mainly forests. It is a very large bat with a wingspan between 1.2 and 1.5 m (3 ft 10 in and 4 ft 10 in). It is nocturnal and feeds mainly on ripe fruits, such as mangoes and bananas, and nectar. This bat is gregarious and lives in colonies which can number a few hundred. Their offspring have no specific name besides 'young'. They have one to two young. The Indian flying fox lives in tropical forests and swamps, where a large body of water is nearby.

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Cidar beetle favorited by Mark Ridgway Alawwa, Sri Lanka 12 minutes ago

Callirrhipis marmorea Fairmaire, 1878 (Ripiceridae : Coleoptera) Ann. Soc. Ent. France 47: 272 in Nature and Life in Southeast Asia III (Chujô, 1964) The male, length 14-16 mm, brownish gray, with strongly punctured above, antennae are flabellate at least half the length of the entire body and with the long and slender branches. Female, length 18 mm, black, smooth with fine pubescent above, antennae are serrate to pectinate about as long as the head and thorax taken together and have only short branches. The larvae are parasites of cicada nymphs.

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Tropical Swallowtail Moth favorited by Gaia80 Sabah, Malaysia 12 minutes ago

A very common moth around here, Lyssa menoetius can be mistaken easily as another similar species - Lyssa zampa. These L. menoetius are every abundant here, maybe it is their season. Much more common than Lyssa zampa, I did not see any Lyssa zampa during my stay here.

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Tropical Swallowtail Moth commented on by Gaia80 Sabah, Malaysia 12 minutes ago

Such spectacular patterns, truly amazing 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