The Polistes Foundation

Macrosystems Research

Project Goal: 
Build a continental network of study sites and naturalists to collect high quality data and imagery of a location during a hike during the day and at night.
Your Role: 
Review the protocols, select a location to do a 2-hour nature hike, followed by 2-hours of mothing at night. Record and submit your data.
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The Goldenrod Challenge

Project Goal: 
Understand factors impacting species interactions, geographic distributions and changes in abundances from season to season.
Your Role: 
Photograph goldenrod plants and any associated species on the plant. Try to identify the species in the photos and submit your results to the website.
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Discover Life

Project Goal: 
Provide tools to benefit natural history studies, track impact of climate change, invasive species and ecosystem changes.
Your Role: 
Store your photographic records, map species you find, monitor locations, identify species and much more.
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Bee Hunt!

Project Goal: 
Assess whether pollination by bees is in decline and if climate change is causing a mismatch between bloom times and pollination.
Your Role: 
Find bees and document them with photographs, GPS location, a description of the habitat and additional details about the environment. Visit the Bee Hunt! website for details, and upload your data.
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Visit Bee Hunt! for futher details.
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