{"id":40160,"date":"2019-04-22T13:59:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-22T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=40160"},"modified":"2019-05-13T10:59:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:59:38","slug":"city-nature-challenge-2019","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/city-nature-challenge-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"City Nature Challenge 2019!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40162 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/CNC19-English_Sec-FC-1-297x300-297x300.png\" alt=\"City Nature Challenge logo\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Want to help show the rest of the world just how amazing North Carolina\u2019s citizen scientists are? Join the NC Museum of Natural Sciences for the City Nature Challenge! This competition pits several American cities against each other to see who can document the most biodiversity on the iNaturalist app over a 4-day period. We\u2019re going up against cities that are a lot bigger than we are (Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Hong Kong, London, and others), but North Carolina\u2019s amazing biodiversity and the great urban wildlife we see every day can help us win!<\/p>\n<p>We likely need over 30,000 submissions to have a shot of taking home the gold, so we need YOUR help snapping photos of Triangle Area plants, animals, or fungi between April 26-29 and submitting them online. We\u2019ve got some great prizes for the top three local contributors as a thank you, too!<\/p>\n<p>You can participate in the City Nature Challenge: Triangle Area by doing the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Join us in person downtown or at Prairie Ridge Ecostation. See the Activity Schedule below for details. (Coming soon!)<\/li>\n<li>Visit any outdoor space in the Triangle Area from April 26 to 29, take photos of the plants, animals, and fungi you see, and submit them to iNaturalist on your own! Download the iNaturalist smartphone app for Android or Apple and submit as you go or carry a camera with you and upload them through the website by noon on May 2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Follow along with the local event, view our local leaderboard, or check out the map of the area that\u2019s included at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/city-nature-challenge-2019-triangle-area\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/city-nature-challenge-2019-triangle-area<\/a>. You can see how we\u2019re stacking up against our competition on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/citynaturechallenge.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the national leaderboard<\/a>\u00a0during the event.<\/p>\n<p>Want to get ready for the City Nature Challenge: Triangle Area now?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Create an iNaturalist account<\/a>\u00a0(it\u2019s free!) through the website or the smartphone app and practice submitting your sightings so you\u2019re ready to help us win. Need help getting your iNaturalist account set up or using the website\/app? Download a printable quick guide for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1cxQEtQFJUd75XCsJ51AA9yfEd_cGQb22\/view?usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iPhone<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1YlLBi7Htqo4PvP3yPAMvWW709obL5TXW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Android<\/a>\u00a0smartphones that will walk you through the basics.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled Museum activities will be listed below as they are confirmed. Thanks for helping us show off our local citizen scientists in the City Nature Challenge: Triangle Area!<\/p>\n<h2>ACTIVITY SCHEDULE<\/h2>\n<p>More details about the following programs will be linked from below soon.\u00a0 Additional programs will be added as they are confirmed!<\/p>\n<h4>Prairie Ridge Ecostation<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Prairie+Ridge+Ecostation\/@35.8122125,-78.7167673,17z\/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89acf425fe9b0051:0x33ea11cf2a2515cf!8m2!3d35.8122082!4d-78.7145733\">1671 Gold Star Drive, Raleigh<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>All Prairie Ridge programs will start in the Outdoor Classroom at the times specified.\u00a0 Bring a smartphone or tablet with the iNaturalist app downloaded and create an account prior to attending for the best experience.\u00a0 Don\u2019t have a smartphone\/tablet?\u00a0 Bring your own camera or borrow one of ours!<\/p>\n<h4>Saturday, April 20:<\/h4>\n<p>9:30-11:30: Introduction to iNaturalist<\/p>\n<h4>Friday, April 26:<\/h4>\n<p>1:00-4:00pm: Tweens and Teens for Citizen Science<\/p>\n<p>8:30-10:30pm: Nighttime Insects<\/p>\n<h4>Saturday, April 27:<\/h4>\n<p>9:30-4:00: City Nature Challenge table<\/p>\n<p>9:30-10:30am: Aquatic Animals<\/p>\n<p>10:30-11:30am: Biodiversity Walk<\/p>\n<p>11:30-12:30pm: Micro World \u2013 The Tiny Species of Prairie Ridge<\/p>\n<p>1:00-2:00pm: Biodiversity Walk<\/p>\n<p>2:00-3:00pm: Birds (camera with telephoto capability recommended!)<\/p>\n<p>3:00-4:00pm: Reptiles and Amphibians<\/p>\n<h4>Sunday, April 28:<\/h4>\n<p>12:30-4:30: City Nature Challenge table<\/p>\n<p>12:30-1:30pm: Biodiversity Walk<\/p>\n<p>1:30-2:30pm: Trees<\/p>\n<p>2:30-3:30pm: Biodiversity Walk<\/p>\n<p>3:30-4:30pm: Insects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40170,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/40160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}