This program has been cancelled

Calling all nature lovers: Do you enjoy snapping pictures of cool plants, animals, and mushrooms, but have trouble identifying what you took a picture of? Are you a citizen scientist, looking to document organisms in a specific area? This iNaturalist class might be for you!

“iNaturalist is an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature. It's also a crowdsourced species identification system and an organism occurrence recording tool. You can use it to record your own observations, get help with identifications, collaborate with others to collect this kind of information for a common purpose, or access the observational data collected by iNaturalist users.” - iNaturalist.org

Presented by Dr. John Friel, Director of the Alabama Museum of Natural History, this program will provide an overview of iNaturalist, and how it can best be used for existing projects or new projects designed by the participants in this course. It will be an introductory presentation then, at the end, we will have the opportunity to go outside and practice what we learned, making observations using the iNaturalist app on our own smart devices. *We recommend you bring your own smart phone or device.

Please register below to reserve your spot!

Check out Ruffner Mountain’s iNatualist Pages for Flora, Fauna, & Fungi!