BIOL 225: Biodiversity & Climate Change: Commemorative Species Months

Developed in 2009 by French scientists, PlantNet is a citizen science project for instant plant identification via smart phone. Photos of leaves, berries, or the entire organism, then compares the image to other known images based on machine learning.

eBird is among the world’s largest biodiversity-related science projects, with more than 100 million bird sightings contributed annually by eBirders around the world and an average participation growth rate of approximately 20% year over year. A collaborative enterprise with hundreds of partner organizations, thousands of regional experts, and hundreds of thousands of users, eBird is managed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

iNaturalist is a crowdsourced species identification system and an organism occurrence recording tool. The social network allows users to share biodiversity info about plants and animals to help each other learn about nature. By recording and sharing your observations, you help create research-quality data for scientists to understand and protect nature.

eMammal is a data management system and archive for camera trap research projects. This cyber-tool is designed to not only be useful to scientists, but also to the citizen scientists who aid scientists in photo collection.