Get started with iNaturalist
Event description
Join us online to learn all about iNaturalist – a platform to help you learn about and record the nature around you. Plus contribute to scientific understanding of biodiversity and environmental change.
This session will get you ready for the City Nature Challenge (Friday 28 April – Monday 1 May) and future citizen science activities like the Great Southern Bioblitz (October).
iNaturalist is also a great tool for people involved in bushcare work, as it lets you build up a picture over time of the biodiversity within your site.
This online session will cover:
- An introduction to iNaturalist
- Step by step instructions on how to make observations with iNaturalist
- Practice submitting an observation using your smartphone, tablet or computer
- How our observations feed into the City Nature Challenge
Make sure you have your smartphone, tablet or computer handy during the session, as we’ll have a break in the middle and use this time to snap a photo and practice making an observation.
About your presenter:
Stephen Fricker, from Ferox australis, will share his experiences and guide us through the process of making iNaturalist observations, unlocking this powerful tool to help you learn more about the plants and animals you see in your surrounds (think at the beach, in local parks and reserves, at school, in our gardens, and while out exploring our natural places). Ferox australis, Latin for Wild of the South, is an Australian based not-for-profit organisation aimed at engaging citizens in science globally.
About the City Nature Challenge:
The City Nature Challenge 2023 is an exciting opportunity for residents and visitors to Greater Adelaide to explore the region’s natural beauty. Held in cities across the world on Friday 28 April – Monday 1 May, the City Nature Challenge gets us outside and engaged with the nature around us.
During the 4-day challenge, simply snap a photo of any wild plant or animal in the Greater Adelaide Area and upload it to iNaturalist platform. All observations are then pooled to this project so that we can compete with participants from all over the world to see who can get the most observations and species recorded in their city. Plus your observations contribute to scientific understanding of biodiversity within our cities, suburbs and surrounds.
Observations anywhere within the Greater Adelaide region count. This extends across metro Adelaide, the Fleurieu, Barossa, Adelaide Hills, north to Wild Hose Plains and as far east as Tailem Bend. You can see the full map here.
We encourage you to download the iNaturalist App beforehand, so you're all ready to go.
This online session will go for 45 minutes. However you are welcome to stay online if you have additional questions at the end.
Please register (FREE) to receive the zoom link.
This event is supported by the Greater Adelaide Environment Network (GAEN): an alliance of 9 environment centres across the Greater Adelaide region and beyond. There are environment centres in the Barossa, Mount Pleasant, Gawler, Norton Summit, Adelaide CBD, Port Adelaide, Willunga, Normanville & Strathalbyn. Discover and connect with your local centre here.
The Port Environment Centre is funded by Green Adelaide with additional support from the City of Port Adelaide Enfield and the Suzanne Elliott Charitable Trust.
Attendee information may be used for follow up evaluation, in order to assess the longer term impacts of our events. Follow up contact may be made (in the form of a survey) but participation in any evaluation is optional.
Marni ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna yartanga inparrinthi
It is good that we all acknowledge we are living on Kaurna Country.