Come join us out in the beautiful tidal marsh areas of Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge to learn about the Refuge and the iNaturalist App. With this community science platform, you will get a guided experience observing and … Read more

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Come join us out in the beautiful tidal marsh areas of Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge to learn about the Refuge and the iNaturalist App. With this community science platform, you will get a guided experience observing and … Read more
Join expert naturalist Damon Tighe for a super fun night searching out oak galls and investigating moths. You’ll check out oaks for galls on the leaves and continue to check back on moths attracted to our UV light set-up. Who … Read more
This is a moderate hike of 4 to 5 miles round trip with about 750 feet in elevation gain: First, you’ll head to enchanted Jewel Lake, host to tortoises and river otters. Then you’ll hike to the top of Wildcat Peak … Read more
Join the Environmental Volunteers for an exciting day of citizen science at the Baylands Nature Preserve. A Bioblitz is simply a snapshot of the plants and animals in a given location at one time. Help to record all the living things … Read more
Explore the North Coyote Valley Conservation Area with SCVAS! Join us for a BioBlitz to explore the plants and animals that call this part of the Coyote Valley home! Gates will be open to the public from 9AM to 12PM. … Read more
This year’s Snapshot Cal Coast featured 4,083 people logging 46,683 observations of almost 4,000 species into the iNaturalist app from June 13 to July 4.
Entomologists thought the Brazilian bee Plebeia emerina had disappeared in California in the 1950s. But two colonies were rediscovered in Palo Alto in 2013, and now a four-year-old has found two more.
After 50,000 people made nearly 1.3 million observations worldwide, what was the most common species found in the Bay Area and in the world?
The California Academy of Sciences Citizen Science team will be hosting our first virtual bioblitz, Saturday, June 6! A bioblitz is a group of people working together to document as many species as they can using the iNaturalist app. Normally … Read more
The global species-finding competition returns on April 24, minus the competition.