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Please join us Monday night, August 15, 2016, for Sam Kieschnick’s presentation on the iNaturalist app & website. Just this week it was featured on KERA’s All Tech Considered, The App That Aims To Gamify Biology Has Amateurs Discovering New Species Please make sure to download the app from Apple’s App Store or Google’s Play Store before you come. Also note we do not have wifi at the meeting site.
iNaturalist is a citizen science network and community or, as it is sometimes called, “facebook for nature nerds.” With a picture, place, and time, anyone can add data to our understanding of global biodiversity. It is also a great way to learn the local flora and fauna, as there are many experts that give guidance on the identifications of unknowns. iNaturalist is also used for documenting invasive species and new populations of nonnatives. It is a citizen science tool that’s incredible fun to use too.
Sam Kieschnick is an urban wildlife biologist with TPWD serving the east side of the DFW metroplex. He previously worked as a nature educator with the City of Mansfield at Oliver Nature Park, as a naturalist at the Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge, as a science interpreter with the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, as a botanist with BRIT, and as an instructor at Weatherford College. He has a master’s degree from Tarleton State University studying the genetics of pocket gophers. As an urban wildlife biologist, Sam’s focus will be on three a’s: awareness, appreciation, and action.
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