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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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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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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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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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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Western Kingbird spotted by Gordon Dietzman Kansas, USA 10 seconds ago

These large attractive kingbirds are gray above with yellow below. Wings are gray/brown, bills are black. When flying the dark tail is trimmed in white. When being aggressive some red feathers may be flared on the top of the head.

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Unknown spotting favorited by Bo Gilbert จังหวัดเชียงใหม่, Thailand 25 seconds ago

wasp moth, this photo was taken in the evening.

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Bombardier Beetle commented on by KrantiAzad Punjab, India a minute ago

Thanks Tic ! Hope u will find it .. search under the stones and bricks in dry area ... but be careful from its spray !!

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Llama favorited by pitchsing West Palm Beach, Florida, USA a minute ago

Furry and gets darker from top to bottom. Has straight ears and is very focused as it seemed to be.

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Aldabra Tortoise favorited by pitchsing West Palm Beach, Florida, USA 2 minutes ago

Thank you for letting me know what type of Tortoise this is!

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Brown Butterfly favorited by Ali Hemati Pour Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia 2 minutes ago

A medium-sized butterfly in dark-brown color. Wings are striped with wavy cream lines.

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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