New England

School of Ants

Project Goal: 
Make detailed maps of the wildlife that lives just outside our doorstep.
Your Role: 
Make an ant sampling kit, record data, submit data online and send in your specimens
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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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The Lost Ladybug Project

Project Goal: 
Find out where all the ladybugs have gone; over the past 20 years ladybugs that were once very common have become rare.
Your Role: 
Collect some ladybugs, photograph them, try to identify them and upload your pictures.
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Global Biodiversity Information Facility

"GBIF allows anyone, anywhere to access data about all types of life on Earth"GBIF uses a network of nodes and coordinates the biodiversity information facilities of participating countries and organizations.Consists of over 400 million records and is frequently cited as a source in peer-reviewed literature.

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NatureServe Explorer

"NatureServe Explorer provides conservation status, taxonomy, distribution, and life history information for more than 70,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities and systems in the United States and Canada. The data available through NatureServe Explorer represent a “snapshot” of the U.S. and Canadian data managed in the NatureServe Central Databases. These databases are dynamic, being continually enhanced and refined through the input of hundreds of natural heritage program scientists and other collaborators.

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Encyclopedia of Life

Project Goal: 
Gather and provide global access to knowledge about all life on Earth. Increase awareness and understanding of living nature.
Your Role: 
Contribute your expertise to enhance the base of knowledge at EOL by: providing data; curating content; creating a collection; or submitting research grade images and video.
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Map of Life

This app is amazing. It allows you to search for where specific species of plant or animal live or list all the different things that might be living near you.  The database uses over 350 million records and is quite fast. Its still in demo mode so take the time to learn how to use it.

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4-H Science

Project Goal: 
Reach more than 5 million young people in science with hands-on learning to ensure global competitiveness and prepare today's youth to become the next generation of science, engineering and technology leaders.
Your Role: 
Participate in any of the different science related events and activities from Youth Science Day to Veterinary science.
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