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Michele Rehbein discusses the City Nature Challenge, which will take place April 25-28, 2025. This four-day annual event encourages people to find and photograph plants and wildlife in their own cities and towns using iNaturalist. Then, Izzy Vogel and Naomi O'Connor, two members of Team Minerva, a robotics team from Park City High School, tell us about their competition at the Premier event in Springfield, Massachusetts.
As part of the global City Nature Challenge, students at Brandeis trekked around campus photographing and identifying local species.
Die Biologen Gernot Kunz und Lorín Timaeus nützen das Handy zur Artenbestimmung. Zum Schluss der Serie sprechen die beiden über die weltweite Artenkunde bei der City Nature Challenge. Gestaltung: Ilse Huber- eine Eigenproduktion des ORF, gesendet in Ö1 am 11.4.2025
From butterflies to birds, experts and citizen scientists unite in a shared mission to monitor and protect nature's habitats. On my show this week, we zoom in on the declining richness of Luxembourg's biodiversity and why it matters. From powerful EU projects to local volunteers counting butterflies, my guests show how citizen science can be crucial to help collect data in a clear and scientific manner. Dr. Youri Martin, Senior R&T Engineer in biodiversity at LIST, is at the heart of Luxembourg's monitoring systems. As principal investigator of the BIODIV project, Youri and his team track protected species using standardised data methods. He coordinates the Luxembourg Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, where volunteers conduct pollinator transect walks and pan trapping to observe bees, butterflies and other insects. “Consistency in data is everything. It allows us to see real trends, and the picture is concerning.” Over 60% of butterfly mass abundance has declined in just over a decade. Citizen science has gripped John Park, who created Bee Together. From identifying butterflies to pan-trapping pollinators, John works hands-on with LIST and is cited among contributors to the new Butterfly Atlas of Luxembourg. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not,” he quotes from The Lorax. John's work has even contributed to published research on genetic drift in insects . Joining us from Austria was Gerid Hager, a research scholar at IIASA and a key figure in the EU's FRAMEwork project and Urban ReLeaf initiative. Gerid emphasised the strength of collaborative data collection from farmers and citizens alike. “This isn't just about data, it's about community, ownership, and the cultural shift towards biodiversity-friendly agriculture.” On the birding front, Patric Lorgé, field ornithologist at natur&ëmwelt, has spent decades building Luxembourg's bird monitoring network. With over 120 volunteers, he has standardised the national tracking of bird populations and authored Vögel Luxemburgs. Patric has personally observed 283 of the 336 bird species in Luxembourg, contributing vital knowledge to EU conservation frameworks like Natura 2000. Digitally documenting this natural world is Paul Braun, Digital Curator at the National Museum of Natural History Luxembourg (MNHNL). As the Luxembourg node manager for GBIF and site manager of iNaturalist.lu, Paul promotes citizen science through technology. The iNaturalist app, he explains, allows users to photograph and identify wild species globally. "The data doesn't just sit there—it feeds into research, policy, and international conservation." The show also highlighted the upcoming City Nature Challenge, a global bioblitz encouraging everyone to document as many species as possible in their city using iNaturalist. Last year Luxembourg contributed over 9,000 observations. “This is where science becomes personal and powerful,” says Paul. So, whether you're walking transects, installing pan traps, identifying birds or just using an app in your garden, you are a vital part of Luxembourg's biodiversity mission. The data you collect today could shape conservation policy tomorrow. As Youri said, “We can't protect what we don't understand. And we can't understand what we don't observe.” https://www.list.lu/en/environment/project/biodiv-iiia/ https://www.list.lu/en/environment/project/lupoms/ https://beetogetherlux.wordpress.com/ https://iiasa.ac.at/ https://www.naturemweltasbl.lu/produit/exemple-de-produit-4/ https://www.mnhn.lu/science/2024/07/11/ferrantia-90/ https://recodo.io/ https://iiasa.ac.at/blog/sep-2023/reshaping-local-frontiers-of-farming-and-biodiversity https://www.naturemweltasbl.lu/centrale-ornithologique/ https://www.ornitho.lu/ https://www.mnhn.lu/ https://www.gbif.org/ https://inaturalist.lu/ https://www.citynaturechallenge.org/ https://www.list.lu/
Calling all wildlife photographers - the 2025 City Nature Challenge begins in just under three weeks. Lichenologist Marley Ford explains how it works.
You have a smartphone. You walk outside to do stuff. You have now accomplished 90% of the City Nature Challenge. Cathy Brundage joins us in the studio to explain just how simple it is to participate in your local iNaturalist City Nature Challenge and help identify plants and animals right in your backyard! Check out and join the City Nature Challenge 2025: PA Endless Mountains Region here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2025-pa-endless-mountains-region
Put on your headphones. In today's episode, host Emily Kwong leads us on a night hike in Patuxent River State Park in Maryland. Alongside a group of naturalists led by Serenella Linares, we'll meet a variety of species with unique survival quirks and wintertime adaptations. We'll search out lichen that change color under UV light and flip over a wet log to track a salamander keeping warm under wet leaves. Emily may even meet the bioluminescent mushrooms of her dreams. Plus, we talk about community events to get outside, such as the City Nature Challenge and Great American Campout.Do you have a question about changes in your local environment? Email a recording of your question to shortwave@npr.org — we may investigate it as part of an upcoming Short Wave segment!Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at plus.npr.org/shortwave.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Jak se chce nové vedení České obce sokolské vyrovnat s dopady úvěrového podvodu, který připravil tuto organizaci o desítky milionů korun? Na jakém základě dospěly americké zpravodajské služby k závěru, že Vladimir Putin nedal přímý rozkaz k zavraždění předáka ruské opozice Alexeje Navalného? Proč by si podle psychologů měli rodiče číst společně s dětmi už od velmi raného věku? Jak bohatá je brněnská fauna a flóra, kterou mapují zájemci v rámci projektu City Nature Challenge?
Jak se chce nové vedení České obce sokolské vyrovnat s dopady úvěrového podvodu, který připravil tuto organizaci o desítky milionů korun? Na jakém základě dospěly americké zpravodajské služby k závěru, že Vladimir Putin nedal přímý rozkaz k zavraždění předáka ruské opozice Alexeje Navalného? Proč by si podle psychologů měli rodiče číst společně s dětmi už od velmi raného věku? Jak bohatá je brněnská fauna a flóra, kterou mapují zájemci v rámci projektu City Nature Challenge?
Jak se chce nové vedení České obce sokolské vyrovnat s dopady úvěrového podvodu, který připravil tuto organizaci o desítky milionů korun? Na jakém základě dospěly americké zpravodajské služby k závěru, že Vladimir Putin nedal přímý rozkaz k zavraždění předáka ruské opozice Alexeje Navalného? Proč by si podle psychologů měli rodiče číst společně s dětmi už od velmi raného věku? Jak bohatá je brněnská fauna a flóra, kterou mapují zájemci v rámci projektu City Nature Challenge?Všechny díly podcastu Hlavní zprávy - rozhovory a komentáře můžete pohodlně poslouchat v mobilní aplikaci mujRozhlas pro Android a iOS nebo na webu mujRozhlas.cz.
The 2024 City Nature Challenge is in full swing THIS WEEKEND during which a series of nature walks and events have been organised throughout the challenge which started on Friday and ends TOMORROW. Originating as a friendly competition between San Francisco and Los Angeles in the US in 2016, the challenge has blossomed into a worldwide phenomenon, with cities across the globe joining forces to observe and document the natural world in urban environments. 24 South African cities and regions are participating in City Nature Challenge 2024. Bongiwe Zwane spoke to Ednah Sekwakwa, Deputy Director for Marketing and Communications at the South African National Biodiversity Institute - SANBI - .
The City of Cape Town is participating in the 2024 City Nature Challenge and is inviting Capetonians and visitors to the city to participate and show people around the world that Cape Town is one of the most biodiverse cities on the planet. From Friday 26 April 2024 to Monday 29 April 2024, members of the public and city staff are encouraged to record their observations of local plant and animal species and stand a chance to win exclusive prizes. #CityNatureChallenge #CapeTownBiodiversity #HelderbergFM
Do you ever find yourself reading or talking about the worldwide climate crisis – coral reef devastation, melting glaciers, catastrophic weather – and wondering “But what can I do?” For those of us who live in urban environments, climate change may sometimes feel like a concept far removed from our daily lives. And yet, the biodiversity and nature right under our noses – and integrated into our cities – are an essential piece of a healthy planet, and a critical baseline for understanding the global climate crisis.Join some of the Bay Area's leading scientists, researchers, and educators for an engaging discussion about urban biodiversity that highlights just how interconnected humans, plants, and animals are even in (especially in) urban spaces. Plus, learn how to channel your love of nature into action by participating in City Nature Challenge, an annual international bioblitz that mobilizes people to document urban biodiversity, April 26-29. Panelists:Jesus Lozano, Urban Forestry Coordinator at the San Francisco Environment Department. Jesus coordinates the San Francisco Urban Forestry Council, facilitating collaboration among key city agencies and local organizations to provide expert advice to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on tree-related topics. Jesus previously served as the Community Engagement Manager at Friends of the Urban Forest, where they focused on connecting with communities that historically have had fewer trees. Committed to the creation of an equitably distributed urban forest, they strive to ensure its role as essential public infrastructure, habitat for local wildlife, and a connection to nature for all of San Francisco's residents.Olivia VanDamme, Community Science Coordinator, Center for Biodiversity and Community Science at the California Academy of Sciences. Olivia helps support and organize community science campaigns including City Nature Challenge, Snapshot Cal Coast and California Biodiversity Day, expanding partnerships and communications. She is dedicated to increasing access to nature for all Californians, and has focused on environmental justice, Indigenous solidarity and equity in her roles for environmental non-profits. She is an avid geographer, educator, poet, singer, environmentalist, and surfer.Cesar O. Estien, Ph.D. candidate in UC Berkeley's Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management in Dr. Christopher Schell's lab, investigating the extent to which societal inequity and environmental injustice shape biodiversity and wildlife ecology. He is currently investigating how historical redlining, income disparities, and unequal pollution burdens influence wildlife biodiversity, carnivore behavior, and human-wildlife interactions through an environmental justice lens. Manny's never turns away anyone for lack of funds. To receive a complementary ticket just email the word "grapefruit" and the title of this event to luis@welcometomannys.com.Want to support community members? By purchasing a "Pay It Forward" ticket you will allow us to provide free tickets to those who may not be able to afford entry otherwise and ensure we can create a diverse socio-economic audience that represents San Francisco.
The City Nature Challenge Bioblitz weekend is returning to Wilson County, as part of the San Antonio Metro Area Friday through Monday, April 26-29. This global event encourages people in urban areas worldwide to observe, document, and share the biodiversity present in their local environments through the iNaturalist application. The City Nature Challenge (CNC) is a friendly competition where cities and surrounding areas compete to document the most wildlife observations and species count. This initiative promotes citizen science and fosters environmental education and awareness of urban biodiversity. Participants contribute valuable data to scientists and biologists aiding conservation efforts and research....Article Link
Happy Earth Day, Nature Lovers! This week, CJ is joined by Edward Warden from Chicago Ornithological Society and Emily Kenny from Forrest Preserve District of Will County to talk about the City Nature Challenge! Throughout this upcoming weekend Friday April 26 - Monday April 29, participants from over 350 cities across the globe will be competing to upload observations to iNaturalist! Make sure to get outside this upcoming weekend and participate! If you're local to the Chicagoland Region, check out Chicago Wilderness Alliance's webpage to find a local event: https://www.chicagowilderness.org/page/CityNatureChallenge More episodes of The Birdy Bunch Podcast will be coming soon! For more information, visit our website: www.TheBirdyBunchPodcast.com Or follow us on Instagram: @TheBirdyBunchPodcast Thank you to our Patrons for supporting Season 4 of The Birdy Bunch Podcast; visit www.Patreon.com/TheBirdyBunchPodcast to sign up.
The City Nature Challenge is back for 2024, with the goal of getting citizen scientists to document the plants and animals they find in their urban jungles.
Con Carmelo Isgrò, biologo marino e direttore del MuMa Museo del Mare di Milazzo parliamo di City Nature Challenge 2023, la gara mondiale di biodiversità dove Milazzo è arrivata prima in Italia e terza in Europa, ma anche di Siso, di Sea Shepherd, di Trentino, di orsi, di manifestazione, di Fugatti, di Tar, di Sabrina Giannini, di Indovina Chi viene a cena, di RAI, di Lav, di Enpa, di Oipa, di Centro Fauna selvatica Il PETTIROSSO, di soccorsi Emilia Romagna, di Biblioteca Comunale di Lambrugo, di presentazione di Me l'ha detto l'armadillo, Altreconomia, di Circolo Arci Via d'acqua a Pavia e di Martina Miscioscia, di Centro Culturale Ricerca di Monza.
The final part of the How To LA series "Finding Home con DACA" with Brian De Los Santos. We also hear from a DACA recipient about life goals she's accomplished under the policy. A non-profit preservation group files a lawsuit against Glendale over the Rockhaven mental health facility. A landslide in San Clemente keeps train services closed. The California Air Resources Board sets a deadline to phase out diesel trucks. Glendale Pickleball encourages newcomers. Is San Bernardino at risk of the "Big Melt"? Former L.A. Mayor Richard Riordan receives a memorial mass. Cinemacon wraps up previews. The annual City Nature Challenge brings out the naturalists in LA. Support The L.A. Report by donating now at LAist.com/joinSupport the show: https://laist.com
On Friday's show: We talk with Erin Douglas of the Texas Tribune about an investigation into the aftermath of the 2019 ITC chemical fire in Deer Park. Also this hour: From a massive blob of seaweed that could be coming to Galveston beaches soon, to the ingredients of a Houston Matters-themed pizza at Saint Arnold, our panel of "non-experts" weighs in on The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week. Then, five years ago, three police officers were implicated in an illegal gambling ring in Chinatown. Now, a native of that same neighborhood has made a movie about it using grant money from the city. And it stars an HPD officer. We talk with director Quoc Tan Ly Huynh, who goes by Q.T. Ly. And, this weekend, Houston will participate in the City Nature Challenge, which involves residents using a mobile app to document and identify plants and animals in their neighborhoods.
Die Themen in den Wissensnachrichten: +++ Zoonomia-Projekt liefert Evolutions-Infos zu 240 Säugetier-Arten +++ Glanzwürmer lösen Knoten in Sekunden +++ Weltweite City Nature Challenge läuft bis Montag +++**********Weiterführende Quellen zu dieser Folge:Zoonomia, Special Issue, Science, 27.04.2023Ultrafast reversible self-assembly of living tangled matter, Science, 27.04.2023City Nature Challenge, Live Results, 28.04.2023Land-use change is associated with multi-century loss of elephant ecosystems in Asia, Scientific Reports, 27.04.2023**********Ihr könnt uns auch auf diesen Kanälen folgen: Tiktok und Instagram.**********Weitere Wissensnachrichten zum Nachlesen: https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/nachrichten
In this week's edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook talks to Dr Tony Rebelo, a scientist at the South African National Biodiversity Institute, about the City Nature Challenge which is taking place this weekend (28 April – 1 May) in some 500 cities around the world. It aims to motivate people to find and document wildlife in their towns, regions, and neighbourhoods. The iNaturalist app is available for free on your phone's Appstore, or you can upload photos from your digital camera to the iNaturalist website (www.inaturalist.org).
Guest: Director Marketing at SANBI Nontsikelelo Mpulo joins John to chat about the exciting upcoming city nature challenge starting tomorrow and how you can be a part of it. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The City Nature Challenge began as a friendly rivalry between LA and San Francisco. Now millions of people globally are helping biologists by taking photos of their local plants and animals. Local governments must provide green bins for California residents. What to put in there, how to keep the waste from getting gross? KCRW answers your questions. Downtown LA's Grand Central Market has remained an LA institution since 1917. How has it managed to stick around so long? By embracing change.
In this episode, host Olubunmi Bakare is joined by Ana Ka'ahanui and Stella Tarnay, founders of Capital Nature and Forest Health and Community Outreach Specialist, Kasey Yturralde of the DC Department of Transportation's Urban Forestry Division. They discuss exploring and learning about the natural environment in Washington, DC and the surrounding area.************************************************************************************************************************************Links to programs and events discussed in the podcastUrban Forestry Division, all topics in DC Urban Forestry, maintenance, tree preservation, history, forest health, urban wood reuse: https://trees.dc.gov/Urban Wood Reuse: https://urban-wood-reuse-dcgis.hub.arcgis.com/Forest invasive species: https://trees.dc.gov/pages/forest-health#spotDC Open Streets: https://open-streets-dcgis.hub.arcgis.com/Where to go if you have an issue with a tree, call 311 or try https://311.dc.gov/Here are some of the links we mentioned:Capital NatureCity Nature Challenge Ana leading City Nature Challenge observation events for DPR and Friends of Oxon Run on Saturday, April 29 at Pope Branch Park and Oxon Run ParkDownload the free citizen science app iNaturalistDC Street Tree MapUDC's DC Master Naturalist programGreen Spaces for DCNCR PRISMCity WildlifeBug Guide.netDOEEE - Urban AgricultureWashington is has the #1 ParkScore in the countryCasey TreesOne of our favorite books: City of Trees by local naturalist and forest bathing guide Melanie Choukas-BradleyPulitzer Prize winning fiction book about trees: The Overstory by Richard Powers ***********************************************************************************************************************************Earth by HoliznaCC0 is licensed under a CC0 1.0 Universal License.
*Cotton planting is wrapping up in South Texas, but the crop is a few weeks behind in the Coastal Bend. *U.S. Transportation Secretary addresses the AM radio issue. *Farmers on the Texas High Plains are still waiting for rain as spring planting time has arrived. *South Texas farmer and rancher Russell Boening testified before Congress this week. *Extreme South Texas is getting scattered showers and row crops are looking good as a result. *Equine asthma is a common disease in horses. *The 8th annual City Nature Challenge is coming up.
Si parla con Carmelo Isgrò direttore del MuMa Museo del mare di Milazzo dei successi della City Nature Challenge e delle iniziative del museo, ma anche delle 16.000 pecore annegate nel trasporto Sudan Arabia, della Corte Costituzionale che boccia Regione Liguria che voleva cacciare sui terreni incendiati dopo 3 anni, del piano cinghiali in Lazio, di Oipa, di Enpa e di parlamento europeo su gas fossile e energia nucleare
To prevent small businesses from being priced out of Boyle Heights, a nonprofit is buying commercial property and offering tenants a share in ownership. On May 15, a gunman entered a Taiwanese church in Laguna Woods, killing one person and injuring five others. How are SoCal's Taiwanese and mainland Chinese American communities processing what happened? In LA, more than 2500 species were identified by about 1400 observers in this year's City Nature Challenge. The western fence lizard was the most observed species.
In this week's edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Alderman Eddie Andrews, the City's Deputy Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, about the annual global City Nature Challenge. This year, over 400 cities are expected to take part in a bid to find out which can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people. In last year's edition, Cape Town had the most observations, came second in the number of species identified, but fell short on how many people took part. So, the race is on for this year's event which takes place from Friday through to Monday and the City is hoping we will bag all three top spots this year.
Natural Resources Specialist with the City of Colorado Springs Cody Bear Sutton talks about the City Nature Challenge. More information by clicking here.
In this week's edition of Being Green, Glynis Crook speaks to Alderman Eddie Andrews, the City's Deputy Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Spatial Planning and Environment, about the annual global City Nature Challenge. This year, over 400 cities are expected to take part in a bid to find out which can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people. In last year's edition, Cape Town had the most observations, came second in the number of species identified, but fell short on how many people took part. So, the race is on for this year's event which takes place from Friday through to Monday and the City is hoping we will bag all three top spots this year.
Natural Resources Specialist with the City of Colorado Springs Cody Bear Sutton talks about the City Nature Challenge. More information by clicking here.
(English/Español) The City Nature Challenge starts on Friday, April 29, and in this episode Billy talks with Angel Mario Hualpa Erazo of Ecuador's Green Jewel, based in Loja in southern Ecuador. We get to know Loja, hear about Green Jewel's conservation and environmental education programs, and talk about the City Nature Challenge. This episode is in English and in Spanish. We start with a shorter English summary and continue with the full discussion in Spanish. El City Nature Challenge empieza el Viernes, 29 de Abril, y en este episodio Billy habla con Angel Mario Hualpa Erazo de Green Jewel, basado en Loja, en el sur de Ecuador. Conocemos Loja, aprendemos de los programas de conservación y educación ambiental de Green Jewel, y hablamos del City Nature Challenge. Este episodio es en inglés y español. Empezamos con el resumen en Inglés y seguimos con la conversación entera (a los 11 minutos y 50 segundos) en español. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wildlife-observer-network/support
(English/Español) The City Nature Challenge starts on Friday, April 29, and in this episode Billy talks with Angel Mario Hualpa Erazo of Ecuador's Green Jewel, based in Loja in southern Ecuador. We get to know Loja, hear about Green Jewel's … Continue reading →
After today, there are only two more days in April. After today, there are 247 days left in 2022. But for now, it is still April 28 and this is the appropriate Charlottesville Community Engagement. After this installment, is it my hope that you will know slightly more than you did before. I cannot quantify precisely. I am Sean Tubbs, the host and producer.Charlottesville Community Engagement is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts in your email, become a free subscriber. To keep them coming, become a paid one! On today’s program:The Jefferson Madison Regional Library is celebrating National Poetry Month today with a series of scrolls The General Assembly takes action on Governor Youngkin’s vetoes and recommendations More documents filed in the Goldman v. Brink case to force a 2022 House of Delegates electionThe Virginia Film Festival is taking submissions and Virginians get a breakCharlottesville City Council approves a rezoning for 170 units in the Fry’s Spring areaAn update on the elevators at Midway ManorFirst-shout is for the Saturday premiere of Raised/RazedIn today’s first subscriber-supported shout-out, Preservation Piedmont wants you to know about this Saturday’s premiere of Raised/Razed, a film by filmmaker Lorenzo Dickerson and Jordy Yager about the life and destruction of Vinegar Hill, one of the oldest African American neighborhoods in Charlottesville. The Maupintown Media production charts the lives of residents over nearly a century as they built prosperity in the face of racially discriminatory policies at every level. The film will be willl be shown outdoors at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center at 8 p.m. Tickets are available on the center’s website with donations to be divided between seven Black-led organizations. Visit https://jeffschoolheritagecenter.org/ to learn more. General Assembly convenes for veto session Virginia legislators returned to Richmond yesterday to continue the 2022 regular session of the General Assembly by responding to vetoes and recommendations from Governor Glenn Youngkin. Before both the House of Delegates and Senate convened at noon, the House Democratic Caucus met and ousted minority leader Eileen Filler-Corn. Brandon Jarvis of the Virginia Political Newsletter reports a secret ballot motion to remove Filler-Corn passed with 25 votes. That’s the minimum required by caucus by-laws. There are 48 Democrats in the 100-member House of Delegates. Jarvis reports a motion to remove Delegate Charniele Herring failed. There was no vote for a new leader. In total, Youngkin had vetoed 26 bills and made recommended changes to 117 others. David Blount, legislative liaison for the Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission, reports in his update to area officials that none of the vetoes were overridden. Blount reports that no action was taken on the state budget, but the chair of the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee had an update. “We’re working to resolve our differences while also maintaining the Senate position as it relates to the importance of funding core services, especially in the areas of education and health and human services,” said Senator Janet Howell. For a full recap of the action on the vetoes and recommendations, check out the Virginia Mercury’s coverage.We’ll hear more from Howell in tomorrow’s installment of Charlottesville Community Engagement. Attorney General’s office files briefs in 2022 House race caseThe final round of briefs in a federal case to force a House of Delegates race this November may have been filed this week. Richmond Attorney Paul Goldman filed suit against the Board of Elections last year claiming the certification of winning candidates in the 2021 race was not valid because the districts are outdated because they are based on the 2010 Census.In March. the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals sent the case back to the Eastern District of Virginia to answer the question of whether Goldman has the right to have filed the suit. In a new brief filed on Monday, Solicitor General Andrew Ferguson argues Goldman does not have standing. “Goldman’s brief is long on rhetoric but falls short on standing—the only question the Fourth Circuit authorized this Court to answer,” reads the motion. “He offers no explanation of how he has suffered the sort of particularized injury-in-fact that Article III requires for any plaintiff who wants to invoke federal jurisdiction.”The brief goes on to argue that the action by the Virginia Supreme Court to adopt new legislative boundaries in late December did nothing to invalidate the elections of 2021. “The Supreme Court merely drew the maps for the next election,” the motion continues. “The Commonwealth of Virginia’s conduct of the 2021 election did not violate the United States Constitution.”The brief also argues that a federal judicial order to hold a state election this year would be intrusive and would lead to “judicially created confusion.” The state also argues that oral argument on this question is not necessary.In response, Goldman filed a surrebuttal arguing that the state’s latest motion introduced new matters that he deserves to have the right to respond to. On Tuesday, Judge David Novak issued an order supporting Goldman’s request to consider a case called Avery v. Midland County as he reviews how to proceed with the case. JMRL celebrating Poem in Your Pocket DayIf you happen to be on the Charlottesville Downtown Mall today, you may have someone approach you with a small scroll. If so, take it, and rejoice that you have been handed an item of poetry. The Jefferson Madison Regional Library is once again celebrating Poem in Your Pocket Day at several locations throughout the area.“On this annual international day honoring the power of poetry to inspire and delight, children, teens and adults are invited to stop by any JMRL library branch to pick out a poem scroll tied with a bow,” reads the information release for the day. “Unwrap it, and possibilities unfold: read it to yourself, share it with someone close (or even a stranger), or just tuck it in your pocket for a rainy day.” The library system has teamed up with local businesses and other organizations for this occasion. Partners include: 2nd Act Books, Botanical Fare, Chaps, Mudhouse (Downtown), Splendora’s Gelato (Shops at Stonefield), UVA Medical Center, and Virginia Discovery Museum.There’s also a virtual program at 2 p.m. with “An Afternoon with Laura Shovan.” The poet and children’s author will discuss her work with Supervising Children’s Librarian Tasha Birckhead. Shovan is the author of The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary. Tonight at 7 p.m. there will a Poetry in the Park at Market Street Park next to the library. Everyone is to read their favorite poem at an open mic event. That goes through 8:30 p.m. Virginia Film Festival waiving fees for Virginia filmmakersThe Virginia Film Festival is six months away but time is running shorter to enter your submission. If you live within the Commonwealth or attend a school here, you can send in your work without having to pay a fee. “The VAFF showcases celebrated new narrative and documentary features, independent and international projects, fresh perspectives on timeless classics, and local filmmakers from throughout Virginia,” reads the submission webpage.For those outside Virginia, the Early Bird Deadline is June 6, 2022 and you can submit a feature for $30 or a short for $10. For reference, features are anything over 31 minutes. The regular deadline is June 27, 2022 and those fees go up to $50 and $25 respectively. Students from all over the world can submit their work, regardless of length, for $10. The 2022 Virginia Film Festival begins November 2 and runs through November 6. Second shout-out is for the Rivanna River Fest and an E-Bike demoIn today’s second Patreon-fueled shout-out, did you know we are now in the middle of the Rivanna River Fest? A host of partners including the Rivanna Conservation Alliance and the Nature Conservancy are holding a series of events this week to celebrate that waterway that helps define urban Albemarle and Charlottesville. This all culminates in the main event this Sunday, May 1, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rivanna River Company on the banks of the Rivanna. This includes the Rivanna River Paddle Race, the virtual Fix a Leak Family 5K, There will also be Water Quality Monitoring Demonstrations, City Nature Challenge, Pop-up Environmental Education Activities, and a Guided Bird Walk at Riverview Park. Learn more at rivannariver.org!In the same area on the same day, there will be an ebike demo day at Meade Park this Sunday, May 1, from 2:00-4:00. A pair of interested ebike owners in town will be bringing their bikes, and anybody who's interested can stop by, ask questions, and take test rides. They will have some ebikes with seats for children. If you’re going, drop them a line in this form. Council considering amendment of Friendship Court agreementThe current Charlottesville City Council had the chance this month to check in with the redevelopment of Friendship Court. The Piedmont Housing Alliance came before Council on April 18 with a request to amend an agreement that governs a $6 million forgivable loan granted in November 2020 for the first phase. The amendment is a technical one because the full amount had not been allocated by Council in a subsequent budget cycle. Brenda Kelley is the redevelopment manager for the city of Charlottesville, a position currently housed in the Office of Community Solutions. “This request is not asking for additional funding,” Kelley said. “This funding is already approved in this current budget.” Council had no issue with the amendment. “This was kind of staggered mostly because of COVID,” said City Councilor Sena Magill. “Friendship Court was really trying to help ease some of the potential future unknown burden that we might be facing with COVID.” The item will require a second reading and it will be on the consent agenda for the May 2 meeting. Construction of the first phase of Friendship Court is now underway. See also: Council approves agreement for Friendship Court funding, October 30, 2020 Council approves rezoning for 240 Stribling, new agreement to pay for sidewalksCharlottesville City Council has voted to rezone nearly 12 acres of land in the Fry’s Spring neighborhood in order for Southern Development to build 170 units. They also voted for the first time on a proposal that would tie a specific infrastructure project to increased revenues that will be generated by higher property taxes. “This is going to allow us to get infrastructure that we need in that part of the city that we would not have otherwise done,” said Councilor Brian Pinkston. Approval came at the April 18, 2022 meeting. Last year, the City Planning Commission recommended approval of the rezoning but only if Stribling Avenue would be upgraded as part of the development.Southern Development agreed to loan the city $2.9 million to pay for sidewalks and drainage on Stribling Avenue. Interim City Manager Michael C. Rogers recommended against the agreement as it was written at Council’s first reading on March 21. “We did have discussions with the developer, [Charlie] Armstrong, and we did come to agreement, a funding agreement,” Rogers said The amended agreement would keep the loan at $2.9 million. The idea has always been that Southern Development would be paid back through the tax revenue generated by higher assessments based on the new development. The initial agreement would have given Southern Development 100 percent of the new tax revenue, but that would have been against the city’s policy to allocate a percentage of new real estate tax funds towards education. “We negotiated that it would be 60 / 40 and 60 percent would go to repay the loan,” Rogers said. “And we agreed for that arrangement, it would be a longer financing agreement.” The city will also allocate $1.3 million funding in the Capital Improvement Program for the project as well to cover the costs and possible overruns. “And from discussions with the engineer, that should be enough to cover the project,” Rogers said. Armstrong said the $2.9 million will be available to the city shortly.“The agreement stipulates that we would have those funds available and drawable by the city before we can pull a land disturbing permit,” Armstrong said. City engineer Jack Dawson said he did not have a timeline when the roadway would be upgraded, but said planning work on Stribling would commence on July 1 if not before. “Which means finding a consultant, doing the planning, community outreach, all of the things that go into development of a project of this size,” Dawson said. Charlottesville Mayor Lloyd Snook was persuaded to proceed. “If the neighbors’ concern is that somehow the developer is going to withhold the construction of the community assets until everything else is done, that’s not going to be happening,” Snook said. Armstrong said he is hoping to be under construction within 12 to 18 months. The project will be constructed in 20 phases. Snook said the intersection of Stribling and Jefferson Park Avenue Extended also needs to be improved. “That’s the kind of thing it strikes me as a manageable problem and one that we can continue to work toward for solutions,” Snook said. “It doesn’t seem to me to be an insurmountable problem.” Deputy City Manager Sam Sanders said Council would get an update in the future on how Stribling would be maintained at a time when construction of both 240 Stribling and the upgrade to the street are underway.“We will bring back to you more details on how we will manage this project unlike maybe how we’ve done other projects in the past because this one is such a significantly complicated and somewhat controversial project,” Sanders said. Councilor Michael Payne said the city should be able to better analyze how much economic value a developer gets for lots that are rezoned. “So that we can understand our position vis-a-vis the developer in a situation like this when we are in a way going to be informally negotiating,” Payne said. “I will say I don’t think that we were perhaps were careful in our analysis in setting ourselves up for this.” Payne voted in favor of the rezoning and the agreement, which passed unanimously. Midway Manor Elevator updateFinally today, in Tuesday’s program, there was a section on Council’s approval of the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s approval of $23 million in tax-exempt bonds to cover the costs of purchasing and renovating Midway Manor. Councilor Michael Payne had expressed concern about a faulty elevator. I checked in with Standard Communities and received this statement yesterday.“We continue to plan for a comprehensive renovation and upgrade of Midway Manor, which is expected to begin later this year in conjunction with the implementation of extended affordability protections for the property. Recognizing that the elevators were in need of more immediate attention, we have accelerated the modernization of both elevators at the property, with on-site work currently underway. In efforts to minimize disruption to residents, one elevator car is being worked on at a time, with the entire project expected to be complete within the next 8 weeks.” - Steven Kahn, Director, Standard CommunitiesTing will match your initial paid subscription to this newsletter!For one year now, Town Crier Productions has a promo with Ting! Are you interested in fast internet? Visit this site and enter your address to see if you can get service through Ting. 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1. A new non-profit made its debut on WICC. A Fairfield dad shared his son's story that led to the creation of Kevin's Afterglow. Learn how it brings awareness and dialogue to mental health illnesses. ((00:10)) 2. Actress, Ashley Tisdale, shared her experience with diastasis recti during and after pregnancy. We spoke with Dr. Mark Melendez, Division Chief of Plastic Surgery for St. V's about this condition and how common it is. ((15:28)) 3. Fairfield and Westchester counties, learn about the City Nature Challenge from the Maritime Aquarium! ((23:36)) IMAGE CREDIT: iStock / Getty Images Plus
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The final Monday of the fourth month of 2022 is here, as April apparently prepares to transition into the middle of summer. Things are always heating up in local and regional government and this begins another week of coverage from Charlottesville Community Engagement, a newsletter and podcast that seeks to take the temperature as frequently as possible. I’m your unofficial proctor, Sean Tubbs. Charlottesville Community Engagement is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.On today’s program:The Virginia General Assembly meets this Wednesday and some members of the House Democratic Caucus seek new leaders Finalists are announced for the Charlottesville Business Innovation Council’s awards gala in MayThe entire Village of Rivanna Community Advisory Committee has resigned in protestA committee will get to work to determine if an Albemarle elementary school should continue to be named for educator Mary Carr Greer And Albemarle County Supervisors approved another $2.5 million to move Crozet plaza project forward First shout-out is for the Rivanna River FestIn today’s first Patreon-fueled shout-out, did you know we are now in the middle of the Rivanna River Fest? A host of partners including the Rivanna Conservation Alliance, the Nature Conservancy are holding a series of events this week to celebrate that waterway that helps define urban Albemarle and Charlottesville. This all culminates in the main event this Sunday, May 1, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rivanna River Company on the banks of the Rivanna. This includes the Rivanna River Paddle Race, the virtual Fix a Leak Family 5K, There will also be Water Quality Monitoring Demonstrations, City Nature Challenge, Pop-up Environmental Education Activities, and a Guided Bird Walk at Riverview Park. Learn more at rivannariver.org!General Assembly to meet this week as some Virginia House Democrats seek new leadershipThe General Assembly is set to return to Richmond this Wednesday for a session to respond to Governor Glenn Youngkin’s recommendations and vetoes. Brandon Jarvis writes for the Virginia Political Newsletter that one Democratic member of the House is seeking a new leadership vote before that work gets underway, with him at the top. (read the story for more details)Delegate Don Scott (D-80) sent a letter yesterday to members of the House Democratic Caucus offering his resignation as its Vice-Chair for Outreach. He also claimed caucus by-laws require an election for his replacement before Wednesday’s veto session begins. He also invoked the by-laws to call for a leadership vote. “I therefore call for a vote for the Leader, Caucus Chair, and if a replacement is appointed, Vice-Chair for Outreach,” Scott wrote.The current minority leader is Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn (D-41), who had served as speaker when the Democrats had a ten seat majority from 2020 to 2021. The current caucus chair is Delegate Charniele Herring (D-46). Republicans now have 52 seats to the Democrats’ 48 and Scott nominated himself as the new Leader with Delegate Sally Hudson (D-57) as Caucus Chair. Brandon Jarvis reports that the vote will be a secret ballot, and 25 votes are needed for a slate to be elected. Process underway to reevaluate name of Greer Elementary SchoolAlbemarle County Public Schools continues their review of existing schools this week to see if their current namesakes are appropriate for the third decade of the 21st Century. On Tuesday, a committee to review the name of Mary Carr Greer Elementary School will begin their work at a 3 p.m. organizational meeting, but the public is not allowed. Twelve people have been selected to see if the name is consistent with the county’s naming policy. This includes Principal Steve Saunders as well as guidance counselor Susie Lee. As with other schools that have gone through this process, the committee will develop a community survey to solicit suggestions for a school name. Two public meetings will be held as well. “Members of the community and the committee can recommend either a new name be chosen for the school or the retention of its current name,” reads a notice on the county’s website. “If the advisory committee selects the current school name as one of its three finalists, the policy requires the committee to examine if Mary Carr Greer, for whom the school is named, made contributions to the community of state, national or world-wide significance.” According to the Ivy Creek Foundation, Mary Carr Greer lived from 1884 to 1973 and was the eldest daughter of Hugh Carr. She attended Union Ridge Graded School, a school for Black students established after Emancipation. Greer would become a teacher and joined the faculty at the Albemarle Training School before becoming its principal in 1931. She retired from education in 1950. The elementary school that carries her name opened in 1979 off of Lambs Lane. So far, the names of Broadus Wood Elementary and Virginia L. Murray Elementary School have been retained. Paul Cale Elementary was renamed Mountain View, Mortimer Sutherland Elemawas renamed Lakeside Elementary, and Murray High School is now the Community Lab School. Jack Jouett Middle School will become Journey Middle School on July 1. Village of Rivanna CAC members resign en masseAll but two members of one of Albemarle’s growth area advisory committees have resigned. The county’s website shows eight vacancies on the Village of Rivanna Community Advisory Committee (VORCAC). That group is charged with making recommendations and providing guidance to the Board of Supervisors on land use items within the scope of the Village of Rivanna Master Plan. However, in an April 19 post on their Substack newsletter, members cited staff interference in their efforts to provide education efforts about the master plan. “Supervisor [Donna] Price is concerned that our review of the Master Plan update is taking too much staff time,” they wrote. “It is our opinion that more time is needed to create a working plan that can be used as intended.”The group last met in March, but an April 11 meeting was canceled. The post concludes with an email Price sent to former VORCAC Chair Dennis Odinov explaining that the ongoing review of the Comprehensive Plan takes precedence over other planning activities which are requiring staff time. Price is the Board of Supervisors’ liaison to VORCAC. “There are no active development applications ready for discussion at the VORCAC, and consistent with Staff recommendation from [Planning Director] Charles Rapp on March 1st, there is no necessity for holding a VORCAC meeting this month,” Price wrote on April 5. Many of the VORCAC members have insisted loudly for many years that the plan allows for no more than one housing unit per acre. Last October, they successfully held the Board of Supervisors to that interpretation of the vision with Southern Development’s Breezy Hill development. The company had sought to build many more units than the maximum of 80 approved by Supervisors. Joe Fore is a member of the Crozet Community Advisory Committee who addressed the Board of Supervisors last week about the issue. He spoke as a community member and not in an official capacity as the Crozet group’s new chair. “To the extent that this portends the Board’s treatment of all CAC’s, it is troubling,” Fore said. “The notion that CAC’s would be prevented from meeting or even setting their own agendas even in months where there are no pressing issues from county staff is a dramatic departure of how these committees have operated.” Fore said county staff have used the pandemic to assert more control over the groups. Questions sent this morning the Office of Communications and Public Engagement were not returned in time for this newsletter, but I will continue to follow-up. There is a precedent for Supervisors putting limitations on CACs and making other changes. In December 2014, Supervisors voted to suspend the Places29 CAC and split it into three different groups at the request of former Supervisor Brad Sheffield. Three more shout-outs for our middle break!Code for Charlottesville is seeking volunteers with tech, data, design, and research skills to work on community service projects. Founded in September 2019, Code for Charlottesville has worked on projects with the Legal Aid Justice Center, the Charlottesville Fire Department, and the Charlottesville Office of Human Rights. Visit codeforcville.org to learn about those projects. Another supporter of the Town Crier Productions’ Patreon account wants you to know: "Today is a great day to spread good cheer: reach out to an old friend, compliment a stranger, or pause for a moment of gratitude to savor a delight."The final comes from another Patreon supporter who wants you to go out and read a local news story written by a local journalist. Whether it be the Daily Progress, Charlottesville Tomorrow, C-Ville Weekly, NBC29, CBS19, WINA, or some other place I’ve not mentioned - the community depends on a network of people writing about the community. Go learn about this place today!Albemarle Supervisors approve $2.5 million in infrastructure funding for Barnes Lumber projectThe Albemarle Board of Supervisors has agreed to spend an additional $2.5 million in public money on a public-private partnership to redevelop the Barnes Lumber yard in Crozet to provide the infrastructure for a more urban character. Supervisors had previously agreed to the partnership in 2019. The original agreement required the county to pay $1.6 million toward the plaza and to provide the equivalement amount in tax rebates through a synthetic tax increment financing scheme. Doug Bates is on the board of the Downtown Crozet Initiative, a nonprofit group also working toward the effort. "For the last five years, we have engaged in an aspirational dream out in Crozet, hoping for a plaza," Bates said. "A couple years back that dream began to get some real teeth to it when you as a Board acted to develop an agreement between New Town Associates, DCI, and yourself, the county itself."Bates said the addendum to the agreement is necessary to help jumpstart the economic development efforts to complete the project."It's going to be your western outpost," Bates said. "A moment of real inspiration to watch the mountains and see children play. However, additional funding is required to help with cost overruns caused by inflation. The cost estimate for the first phase is now $7.88 million, higher than the $5.4 million originally anticipated. “The roads in particular which are of most significance with respect with what we’re asking the Board to consider in its investment as a part of this package today,” said Doug Walker, the deputy county executive. (review Walker’s presentation)Walker said the project would not happen without the public-private partnership. “It provides public contribution to provide for public benefit including the developer’s contribution of his money in order to match [Virginia Department of Transportation] revenue-sharing money,” Walker said. Walker said the closest equivalent to what the plaza hopes to be is the Charlottesville Downtown Mall. “In fact, that is a plaza owned by and managed by the city Parks and Recreation [Department],” Walker said. “You can see the essential connectivity it provides to that business corridor and the life that it brings into that area.” Walker said this project builds off of previous Albemarle investment into the Crozet Library which build a road connection to a future Library Avenue. It’s also interconnected with efforts to also transform what’s known as The Square. “The Square is that piece of road that runs from Crozet Avenue in front of Mudhouse, Fardowners, Parkway Pharmacy, and then ties into what would be Phase One of this project,” Walker said. “That also is a VDOT transportation revenue sharing project.” Staff suggested using $1 million from the American Rescue Plan Act and $1.5 million from the Economic Development Investment Pool. “This is an old industrial site being repurposed,” Walker said. “This is putting it back into constructive public and private use.” As part of the amended agreement, the developer will build public restrooms in the first phase. Another $50,000 will go to the Downtown Crozet Initiative for seed money for an executive director to program the new space. Supervisor Ned Gallaway wanted to know more about how that $50,000 would be used “How will the relationship between the county and that entity and then the responsibilities for each to manage the space and that position be formalized?” Gallaway asked. Lance Stewart, the county’s director of Facilities and Environmental Services, said a management agreement would be worked out. “I would expect a couple of work sessions with the Board in the future to make sure we are comfortable with the role that they would hold and the management responsibilities that they have,” Stewart said.Gallaway said he just wants to avoid a county employee being required to run the plaza. CBIC announces finalists for tech awardsAn organization that seeks to promote business and technology in the greater Charlottesville area has announced the finalists for its annual awards gala. The Central Business Innovation Council will hold their first in-person ceremony since 2019 on May 26 at Castle Hill Cider. “These awards serve as annual touchstones others can look to for inspiration and encouragement during their professional journeys,” said Tracey Greene. “These past two years have been challenging for many and we are delighted to recognize the perseverance, resilience, growth and creativity of these outstanding leaders, innovators, and organizations.”CBIC has been handing out these awards since 1998, but took last year off due to the pandemic. The 2020 event was held in September and was held virtually, as reported in the September 11, 2020 edition of this newsletter.Business of the YearAdial PharmaceuticalsPerrone RoboticsRivanna MedicalEducator of the YearEmily Anderson of Lakeside Middle School, Albemarle County Public SchoolsRobbie Munsey of St. Anne’s BelfieldHeather Schmidt of Career and Tech Ed, Albemarle County Public SchoolsEmployer of the YearArcheMedXCosaicCoconstructEntrepreneur of the YearAaron Reedy of Data ClassroomSandy Reisky of Apex Clean EnergyDan Schleifer of CosaicInnovator of the YearLytos TechnologiesLumacyteTwin ThreadPartnershipBetterWorldCenter for Nonprofit Excellence + United Way of Greater CharlottesvilleCode for CharlottesvilleStartup of the YearMolecular BiologicalsSceneThinkSpringbok AnalyticsSocial Good AwardSarnyaSteam Discovery AcademySteam KitzVisitAbleStudent Entrepreneur of the YearAlec Brewer, TransfoamElizabeth Blankenship, CotonElliot Crotteau, Elliot’s Vision This is a public episode. 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Wir erzählen euch, was sich in Währing in den letzten Monaten getan hat und was alles bevorsteht. Das geht von der Sozialraumanalyse zum Aumannplatz über die neue Outdoor-Fitness Anlage, viele Radfahrnews bis zur City Nature Challenge. Dazu kommen Infos über die Bücherschränke, neue Bäume in Währing, den Klimapreis und viele spannende Veranstaltungen.
Nick Darling with Colorado Springs Parks and Recreation talks about the City Nature Challenge.
FULL SHOW NOTESToday's guest is Alison Young, Co-Director of the Center for Biodiversity and Community Science at the California Academy of Sciences. Alison has a background in marine biology, including a MA in Marine Biology from Humboldt State University and a BA in Biology from Swarthmore College.At the Cal Academy, Alison is a driving force behind the City Nature Challenge, which is a 4 day global BioBlitz event that had over 1.25 million nature observations in 2021 across 400 different global locations. Mark your calendars! This year it runs from April 29 to May 2 local time, and I hope all of you plan to participate! I know my calendar is full of fun and unique events all four days!Today Alison and I discuss the community, science, and fun that is the City Nature Challenge, and how you can participate in this year's event. Whether you live in a city or not, in northern or southern latitudes, or are stuck at home, you can participate, and Alison offers wonderful insights for all of those scenarios.We discuss the goals of the challenge, and of course, exactly what it is. Alison also tells us how the City Nature Challenge grew from what was initially thought to be a one-time competition between two rival cities - Los Angeles and San Francisco, to the massive annual event that it is today.And Alison offers several tips for making useful observations in iNaturalist, taking good photos, and how to make the City Nature Challenge a fun and enticing event even if the season or weather isn't what you'd consider optimal for your area.You can get more information at citynaturechallenge.org, and follow the city nature challenge at citnatchallenge on both twitter and instagram. And follow Alison at alisonkestrel on Twitter and Instagram, or just kestrel on iNaturalist.FULL SHOW NOTESLinksPeople, Events, OrganizationsGreat Southern BioBlitz - an event for the Southern HemisphereJulia Butterfly Hill - lived in a Redwood tree for 738 days to draw attention and prevent cutting of rare old growth redwoodsLila Higgins, Senior Manager, Community Science at Natural History Museum of LA CountySnapshot Cal Coast - A California Coast bioblitz event BooksThe Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction by David Quammen. This 1997 book was influential to Alison.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/naturesarchive)
0:00 ประชาสัมพันธ์ทั่วไป 9:28 พักเบรก หาของกิน คุยเบร้อเรื่องหนังผีช่องแอร์ ถ่ายแบบเบร้อ ความ PC กับการล้อเลียน กัญชา 20:40 ข่าวแมงมุมล่าเหยื่อเป็นฝูง และเดินๆ หยุดๆ แบบพร้อมเพรียงเหมือนโกโกวา 25:43 ข่าวแมงมุมโจโร่บุกอเมริกา และพฤติกรรมบอลลูนขึ้นฟ้าของแมงมุม 36:54 คำอธิบายวิดิโอไวรัล ฝูงนกตกจากฟ้า 40:30 แมวเป็นสาเหตุการตายอันดับ 1 ของนก ส่วนอันดับ 2 คือกระจก 46:00 แมวกับบุคลิก psychopath 53:11 สามบุคลิกอันตราย Dark Triad = Narcissism + Machiavellianism + Psychopathy 59:40 WiT Quizzz https://youtu.be/LdJWWkKpXGM ประชาสัมพันธ์ City Nature Challenge 2022: Thailand APR 29, 2022 - MAY 2, 2022 ปีนี้ นอกจากกรุงเทพและปริมณฑล--สามสมุทร--ปราการ / สงคราม/ สาคร ปทุมธานี นครปฐมและนนทบุรี แล้วเรายังรวมเมืองหาดใหญ่ เชียงใหม่และขอนแก่นด้วยครับ City Nature Challenge 2022: Thailand หากคุณรักธรรมชาติ และถ่ายภาพ หรือบันทึกเสียงธรรมชาติด้วย smartphone อยู่เป็นประจำ คุณเป็นคนสำคัญ ช่วยให้ประเทศไทยได้รับรู้ถึงความหลากหลายทางชีวภาพแสนน่าทึ่งของกรุงเทพมหานครและเมืองใหญ่มากยิ่งขึ้น ช่วงระหว่าง วันที่ 29 เมษายน - 2 พฤษภาคม 2565 นี้ ชวนคุณถ่ายภาพสัตว์และพืชในธรรมชาติของกรุงเทพมหานครและปริมณฑล พร้อมไปกับอีก 3 เมืองใหญ่ของประเทศไทยคือ เมืองเชียงใหม่ เทศบาลนครหาดใหญ่ และเมืองขอนแก่น ไม่ว่าจะในสวนสาธารณะกลางเมือง ตามชานเมือง รอบบ้าน โรงเรียน ชายหาด ฯลฯ จากนั้น ส่งผลการสำรวจของคุณไปยัง iNaturalist ง่าย ๆ แค่นั้นเอง!! ไม่จำเป็นต้องลงทะเบียนก่อน และเข้าร่วมได้ฟรี! งานนี้ มีผู้เข้าร่วมมากกว่า 400 เมืองทั่วโลก คุณคือคนสำคัญคนหนึ่งที่ส่งเสริมการรับรู้และการมีส่วนร่วมด้านความหลากหลายทางชีวภาพได้ มาเป็นนักวิทยาศาสตร์พลเมืองและมีส่วนร่วมในฐานข้อมูลที่เพิ่มขึ้นเกี่ยวกับธรรมชาติในประเทศไทยของเรากันครับ ทั้งหมดนี้ สำเร็จได้ด้วยการกดปุ่ม เพียงปุ่มเดียวเท่านั้น! #inaturalist #citynaturechallenge2022 --------------------------------------- #เทศกาลนับกระทิงและช้างวังน้ำเขียว ณ เขตห้ามล่าสัตว์ป่าเขาแผงม้า อำเภอวังน้ำเขียว จังหวัดนครราชสีมา วันที่ 26 - 27 มีนาคม 2565 เพื่อร่วมขับเคลื่อน #เศรษฐกิจสร้างสรรค์ #คนอยู่ได้สัตว์ป่าอยู่ได้ ภายในวันงานมีกิจกรรมเสวนาและนิทรรศการเพื่อการเรียนรู้กระทิง และช้างป่า ประวัติความเป็นของพื้นที่คลองทรายจากอดีตถึงปัจจุบัน ณ จุดสกัดเขาสูง เขตห้ามล่าสัตว์ป่าเขาแผงม้า #ผู้สนใจเข้าร่วมงานเสวนา #ลงทะเบียนเข้าร่วมได้ที่ https://forms.gle/odf4epmtVQEr6EwL8 รายละเอียดเพิ่มเติม https://humanelephantvoices.org/activities/khaoyai/guar-and-elephant-counting/ https://www.facebook.com/humanelephantvoices/posts/794137768691019 ---------------------------------------------- ค่าย ค่ายยุวชนมหิดลสิ่งแวดล้อม สำหรับน้องๆ ม.1- 3 เปิดรับสมัครแล้วจ้า ระยะเวลารับสมัคร : วันนี้ - 15 เมษายน 2565 ค่ายจัดวันที่ 8-11 พฤษภาคม 2562 Free!! ไม่เสียค่าใช้จ่ายตลอดโครงการ รายละเอียดเพิ่มเติม https://en.mahidol.ac.th/mu.encamp/ https://www.facebook.com/enmahidol/posts/10159505728380358 -------------------------------------------------------------- ข่าวแมงมุมล่าเหยื่อเป็นฝูง และเดินๆ หยุดๆ แบบพร้อมเพรียงสไตล์โกโกวา -1 , 2 ข่าวแมงมุมโจโร่ (joro spider) หรือแมงมุมใยทอง บุกอเมริกา -1,2 ตำนาน jorogumo แมงมุมโจโร่กับคนไทย -1 พฤติกรรมบอลลูน https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rTEe2vS-VI คำอธิบายวิดิโอไวรัล ฝูงนกตกจากฟ้า -1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWQNHJL90v4 แมวเป็นสาเหตุการตายอันดับ 1 ของนก ส่วนอันดับ 2 คือกระจก - 1,2,3 ตัวที่เจอเอง นอนตายอยู่ข้างหน้าต่าง สันนิษฐานว่าน่าจะบินชนกระจก แมวกับบุคลิก psychopath -1,2 สามบุคลิกอันตราย Dark Triad Narcissism + Machiavellianism + Psychopathy WiT Quizzz นักบินอวกาศรัสเซีย 3 คนที่เพิ่งขึ้นไปสถานีอวกาศนานาชาติเมื่อวานนี้ ใส่ชุดเหลืองฟ้า ซึ่งเป็นสีธงชาติของยูเครน เสื้อฟังเสียง - นักวิจัย MIT ประดิษฐ์เส้นใยพิเศษซึ่งเมื่อเอามาถักเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของเสื้อ สามารถใช้เสื้อตัวนั้นเป็นไมโครโฟนอัดเสียงได้ กริชคิงทัท - ผลวิเคราะห์ล่าสุดของกริชที่มีชื่อเสียงของคิงทัท ซึ่งทำมาจากอุกกาบาต พบรายละเอียดเพิ่มเติมว่าอุกกาบาตนั้นมีต้นกำเนิดมาจากดาวอังคาร ข้อ 1 จริง -1,2
Bron and Kade talk Baykeeping with Neil Blake, Ocean Literacy with Dr Prue Francis, and the history of diving with Maynard...Jeff Maynard.• Baykeeper Neil Blake talks about the ‘City Nature Challenge', a program that aims to see which city can submit the most observations of native fauna. Neil also takes a look at different models of citizen science, and possible improvements in current methods used by citizen scientists. • Dr Prue Francis (Deakin University) talks Ocean Literacy, continuing our conversation about the ‘Blue Curriculum' and the support teachers need, the use of children's books to introduce marine science to the classroom, and plans for some upcoming workshops for teachers.• And Jeff Maynard continues to go deeper into the history of diving using nothing but his wits, charm and James Bond movies. This month Jeff explores 17th century diving methods with Pierce Brosnan as 007.
Dr. Nadina Galle is joined by Alison Young, co-director of the Center for Biodiversity and Community Science at the California Academy of Sciences, to discuss why she co-founded the City Nature Challenge, how iNaturalist can help people find and document plants and wildlife in cities across the globe, and why technology can be an aid, rather than a distraction, to get people outdoors and provide the biodiversity data desperately needed by decision-makers. Follow Nadina and the Internet of Nature Podcast on all social platforms: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/internetofnature_ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadinagalle/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/earthtonadina Produced by Studio Noord Gestoord.
May 4, 2021--Join the “International City Nature Challenge” from the comfort of your own radio! The Ecology Hour this week looks at this worldwide observation and citizen science effort, and how Mendocino County has been involved. Host Hannah Bird talks with some of the partners who spent the weekend observing all living things, and explains how you can participate in this great identification effort!
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George Gehrig subscribes to the Fancy Scientist and responded to an email of mine asking about the impact of iNaturalist data on science. I thought that sounded like a great topic to discuss, and when I found out that George was the organizer of the City Nature Challenge for Bonner County, I thought – even better!iNaturalist is an app that anyone with a smartphone can use to take photos of different things in nature, upload them to the platform for identifications, and to connect with members in their community or across the world. The City Nature Challenge is an annual event where cities “compete” to find the most species and activate the largest groups of people to get outside and document nature using iNaturalist.In this episode, we talk about the importance of the City Nature Challenge to science and society, the many reasons why George is organizing one, and how you can get involved. Specifically we chat about:What is the City Nature Challenge? How was it started? Why do we have a City Nature Challenge? What is a bioblitz?How useful are iNaturalist data to scientists? Why and how the City Nature Challenge has meaning beyond spotting speciesHow to get people involved and to participateWhat impacts the City Nature Challenge can have on peopleHow is a winner determinedand MORE!For full show notes click here.Get a free chapter of my book “Getting a Job in Wildlife Biology: What It's Like and What You Need to Know” to see how I can help you in your career: https://stephanieschuttler.com/getting-a-job-in-wildlife-biology-book/ Want to learn about cool animals, conservation, and get tips about careers in wildlife biology, science, and more? Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/StephanieSchuttler and join my email list: https://stephanieschuttler.com/ I'd love to meet you. Connect with me on social media:Twitter: https://twitter.com/FancyScientistInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/fancy_scientist/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fancyscientist/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/fancyscientist/pins/I go live in my Facebook group every other Sunday at 7 PM EST to answer a wildlife biology question. Join me! https://www.facebook.com/fancyscientist/ Join the “Getting a Job in Wildlife Biology” Facebook group to connect with other aspiring wildlife biologists, post your questions and get free advice: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gettingajobinwildlifebiology
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It's City Nature Challenge time! The Greater San Antonio Metro Area — which includes Wilson, Bexar, Guadalupe, Atascosa, Medina, Bandera, Kendall, Kerr, and Comal counties — will be participating in the fourth annual international City Nature Challenge. Cities around the world are participating, to document the most observations of the most species by the most citizen scientists. Citizen scientists will use the iNaturalist app to share observations. The app is free for both iPhone and Android devices; visit www.iNaturalist.org. Make iNaturalist observations anywhere in the Greater San Antonio Metro Area from April 30 through May 3. Take a picture of...Article Link
Today's episode is a short bonus that I've been planning for quite awhile - How to Create a Great Nature Field Trip. I cover many best practices, including creating a theme that ties your trip together, and to the organization you represent, how to pace your trip, both in content and activities, and tons of useful tips and tricks I've learned over the years in my professional life, as a guide, and in obtaining my Certified Interpretive Guide certification from the National Association of Interpretation (NAI).The full transcript and show notes are at my Nature's Archive Podcast website.I also briefly talk about the City Nature Challenge, which is coming up on April 30 through May 3, 2021. This is a friendly challenge between cities to document as much biodiversisty as possible using iNaturalist. It's a great activity for individuals or families, and serves as a great excuse to take note of interesting things all around us that are often overlooked. The aforementioned show notes discuss this further.And I'll be back to my standard episodes on May 3, 2021. As a sneak preview, in the next couple of months you'll get to hear about prairies, bird observatories, mountain lions, feathers, and more.
Like it or not, many homeowners think that gardening means maintaining a lawn. Alec McClennan from Good Nature Organic Lawn Care and Dan Dinelli, superintendent of North Shore Country Club in Glenview, discuss non-toxic ways of keeping lawns healthy. Taran Lichtenberger from Budburst at the Chicago Botanic Garden wants you to grab your camera and participate in next week's City Nature Challenge 2021. Leslie Graham and Chris Crone explain how the North Shore Plant Club can help folks save money on all kinds of plants.
Chris Castro serves as the Senior Advisor to Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer, Director of Sustainability & Resilience, and "Future-Ready" steering-committee member at the City of Orlando developing a comprehensive set of policies & programs that has turned Orlando into one of the leading cities in America accelerating sustainability, resiliency, and climate action. The Nature Conservancy
The Cumberland River watershed is part of the third most biodiverse freshwater in the world. Thousands of species rely on the land and waters in our region. Yet across the world biodiversity is declining at unprecedented and alarming rates. When many of us think about where wildlife lives, we probably picture wide-open parklands, protected national parks, and remote areas away from people. But biodiversity is also found right near our cities. From April 30-May 3rd Nashville is one of over 400 cities around the world participating in the City Nature Challenge. During this one-weekend, people across the world get out to find, observe and share wildlife in their city. By using the app iNaturalist, these observations help scientists around the world understand what’s happening with biodiversity. You can find all the details about the event on our website. https://cumberlandrivercompact.org/event/city-nature-challenge-2021-nashville/. In today’s episode, we talk with two biodiversity experts. First up, we’ll hear from Kim Bailey, a lifelong nature enthusiast and naturalist extraordinaire with Warner Park Nature Center. She’ll share more about how you can explore biodiversity in our cities. Then we hear from Richard Hitt, with the local chapter of WildOnes. Richard will share about what we can do in our own backyards to make them great habitat for Tennessee biodiversity. Resources mentioned in today's episode: Native Plant Finder: https://www.nwf.org/nativeplantfinder/ Field Guide to Insects of North America: http://www.kaufmanfieldguides.com/insects.html Butterflies of Tennessee: https://ritavenable.com/?page_id=22 Wildflowers of Tennessee: The Ohio Valley and the Southern Appalachians: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/wildflowers-of-tennessee-the-ohio-valley-and-the-southern-appalachians-dennis-horn/1100003358 A Field Guide to Eastern Trees: Eastern United States and Canada, Including the Midwest: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-field-guide-to-eastern-trees-roger-tory-peterson/1119268741 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thecompact/message
In questo episodio l'adesione della città di Trento alla City Nature Challenge 2021, il webinar "Il linguaggio è potere" e la consegna, da parte del Coni di Trento, della medaglia d'oro del 37° Trofeo Villanova ad Angelica e Giovanni Tarabelli.
Turn yourself into a biologist and get involved in citizen science! Chris and Jan talk about a fun way to learn about the animal species all around us, even in the city.
Nurit Katz is UCLA’s first Chief Sustainability Officer. She also teaches at UCLA Extension’s Sustainability Certificate Program. And she is a first-generation American, a proud daughter of a Serbian-Croatian Israeli immigrant. In this episode, we talk about how to get people and most important organizations and companies to think and care more about sustainability. And I was pleasantly surprised by Nurits outlook because I have a tendency to get into “all is lost” mode and there is a lot of this doomsday messaging out there and it’s actually nice to hear a professional who while being aware of the challenges has a positive and proactive outlook. Here are a few links from Nurit: UCLA Sustainability: https://www.sustain.ucla.edu/ UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge: https://grandchallenges.ucla.edu/sustainable-la/ iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/ City Nature Challenge: https://citynaturechallenge.org/ UCLA Extension Sustainability Certificate: https://www.uclaextension.edu/environmental-studies-public-policy/sustainability-environmental-studies/certificate/sustainability FIND WE THE ALIENS PODCAST: www.WeTheAliensPod.com YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and on Clubhouse Text “ALIENS” to +1 310 388 82 79 and let’s chat! Email to wtapodconnect@gmail.com ASK YOUR FRIENDLY RUSSIAN on TikTok MUSIC: "My country" courtesy of Ben Bostick www.benbostick.com ABOUT WE THE ALIENS PODCAST: We The Aliens podcast hosts conversations with IMMIGRANTS from all over the world who came to the US and found their path to the American Dream. No matter what their status is - undocumented, DACA recipient, permanent resident (green card holder), naturalized citizen - all are welcome here. We talk about the challenges of leaving the home country, finding the legal path, finding a way to belong in the new world, building a career, finding love, and sustaining the family traditions. We talk about IMMIGRATION as a process of growth and self-discovery, adaptation, overcoming cultural shocks, and fighting racial and ethnic stereotypes. We talk about the great contributions that immigrants make to the American economy, culture, science, and society. We also feature stories of the first-gens, FIRST GENERATION American-born, the third culture kids, who have their own set of struggles growing in between the cultures of their parents' home country and America. We talk about their battle to find their identity and carve their path while redefining what American is. We talk about philosophy, psychology, culture, language, and history. We also talk about the news of the day, things that we all worry about - but in the context of the immigrant perspective. If you love NPR, This American Life, The Daily, and Pod Save America, if you read Forbes, LA Times, The Atlantic, and New York Times, if you watch John Oliver, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert, and/or Trevor Noah, if you are a Twitter and Clubhouse addict because you want to be closer to people, if you, your spouse, your parent, or your grandma is an immigrant-alien and you know that you and they came to this country to build and contribute, and you can’t stand discrimination and belittling of their lives and contributions - this podcast is for you.
Just in time for Women's History Month, the Museum of the Earth has opened an exhibit called “Daring to Dig, Women in American Paleontology”. The exhibit explores the achievements, adventures, and discoveries made by women…Continue ReadingLSS 109: Women in Paleontology; City Nature Challenge
Nurit is UCLA’s first Chief Sustainability Officer. She also teaches at UCLA Extension’s Sustainability Certificate Program. And she is a first-generation American, a proud daughter of an Israeli immigrant. We talk about what sustainability is and is not. And how immigrant perspective can be of value here. Here are a few links from Nurit: UCLA Sustainability: https://www.sustain.ucla.edu/ UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge: https://grandchallenges.ucla.edu/sustainable-la/ iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/ City Nature Challenge: https://citynaturechallenge.org/ UCLA Extension Sustainability Certificate: https://www.uclaextension.edu/environmental-studies-public-policy/sustainability-environmental-studies/certificate/sustainability FIND WE THE ALIENS PODCAST: www.WeTheAliensPod.com YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and on Clubhouse Let us know what you think about the show. Call our Google Voice at (213) 973-3813 and leave a message or email to wtapodconnect@gmail.com. ASK YOUR FRIENDLY RUSSIAN on TikTok MUSIC: "My country" courtesy of Ben Bostick www.benbostick.com ABOUT WE THE ALIENS PODCAST: We The Aliens podcast hosts conversations with IMMIGRANTS from all over the world who came to the US and found their path to the American Dream. No matter what their status is - undocumented, DACA recipient, permanent resident (green card holder), naturalized citizen - all are welcome here. We talk about the challenges of leaving the home country, finding the legal path, finding a way to belong in the new world, building a career, finding love, and sustaining the family traditions. We talk about IMMIGRATION as a process of growth and self-discovery, adaptation, overcoming cultural shocks, and fighting racial and ethnic stereotypes. We talk about the great contributions that immigrants make to the American economy, culture, science, and society. We also feature stories of the first-gens, FIRST GENERATION American-born, the third culture kids, who have their own set of struggles growing in between the cultures of their parents' home country and America. We talk about their battle to find their identity and carve their path while redefining what American is. We talk about philosophy, psychology, culture, language, and history. We also talk about the news of the day, things that we all worry about - but in the context of the immigrant perspective. If you love NPR, This American Life, The Daily, and Pod Save America, if you read Forbes, LA Times, The Atlantic, and New York Times, if you watch John Oliver, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert, and/or Trevor Noah, if you are a Twitter and Clubhouse addict because you want to be closer to people, if you, your spouse, your parent, or your grandma is an immigrant-alien and you know that you and they came to this country to build and contribute, and you can’t stand discrimination and belittling of their lives and contributions - this podcast is for you.
Philly naturalist Robin Irizarry and Billy talk with their antipodean urban bioblitz colleague Stephan Fricker about the Great Southern Bioblitz, the fall (or spring if you're down under) counterpart to the City Nature Challenge. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wildlife-observer-network/support
Philly naturalist Robin Irizarry and Billy talk with their antipodean urban bioblitz colleague Stephan Fricker about the Great Southern Bioblitz, the fall (or spring if you’re down under) counterpart to the City Nature Challenge.
Gov. Newsom moves CA to a new phase of reopening and masks become a point of contention, relationship dynamics during the pandemic and a new city nature challenge.
Gnid søvnen af ud af øjnene, og start din morgen med Radio LOUD. Hver mandag til fredag sidder Snoozeren klar til at klæde de morgenfriske lyttere på til dagen der kommer.I denne episode skal vi høre, hvordan det med projektet City Nature Challenge. Og hvad gør man med 25.000 unge mennesker, der plejer at samles i Valbyparken til Ungdommens Folkemøde.
Fine Music Radio — Glynis Crook’s guest in this week’s edition of Being Green is Dr Eleanor Hutchings who is the People and Conservation Coordinator: Biodiversity Management Branch at the City of Cape Town. They discuss the annual City Nature Challenge which takes place from Friday 24 to Monday 27 April. More than 250 cities across the world are taking part this year in the special Covid-19 lockdown edition. In places where residents are not allowed to leave their homes, they are being encouraged to document the plants, birds, animals, reptiles and insects they find in their gardens, on their balconies or even from their windows. To take part, all you need to do is sign up for the challenge and start recording your observations. If you have a smartphone, you can download the free iNaturalist app in your app store. iNaturalist
Il passaggio dell'asteoride 1998 Or2 e le analogie tra osservazione del cielo e analisi di un'epidemia.
Sarah Burton joins the show to talk about the City Nature Challenge. District Wildlife Manager in Boulder & Lon Hagler Tyler Asnicar joins the show to talk about bear awareness. Chad LaChance with Fishful Thinker joins the show to talk about Front Range reservoir trout tactics going strong in area waters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Sarah Burton joins the show to talk about the City Nature Challenge.
The 2020 City Nature Challenge wants to know what is living in your backyard. Dave Ireland is a local lead coordinator and he tells us why it is important to know what is living outdoors...from shrubs to lichen to squirrels.
How do you do an urban international bioblitz during a pandemic? Navin Sasikumar, Robin Irizarry, and Billy talk about the City Nature Challenge 2020 and how we can all take part on our own, together. (here’s that dead porcupine video) … Continue reading →
How do you do an urban international bioblitz during a pandemic? Navin Sasikumar, Robin Irizarry, and Billy talk about the City Nature Challenge 2020 and how we can all take part on our own, together. (here's that dead porcupine video) This is a cross-post with Nature's Hypeman, one of our sister podcasts in the Wildlife Observer Network. Credits: Executive Producer: Tony Croasdale, Audio Production: Tykee James, Art work: Robin Irizarry. Wildlife Observer Network stinger by Alexander Jenson (music by His Hero is Gone) Help our reach by rating us where you're listening to Wildlife Observet Network and sharing this episode on social media We have Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram! Please support our creativity with monthly payments through Anchor or Patreon. You can also help us right now by giving us a rating and sharing this episode on social media so your family, friends, and followers know you're a part of the Wildlife Observer Community. https://anchor.fm/wildlife-observer-network https://www.patreon.com/WildlifeObserverNetwork --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/wildlife-observer-network/support
Can Coronavirus Reactivate In Patients After Recovery? These days, newsfeeds are overloaded with stories of the coronavirus, but Science Friday continues to explain the science behind COVID-19 headlines. Here, we learn about South Korea reports of 116 patients who recovered from the disease tested positive. Angela Rasmussen, associate research scientist and virologist at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, breaks down how reactivation works in viruses in diseases such as herpes. Plus, Rasmussen talks about human challenge trials—where participants are given a vaccine and inoculated with a virus—and the debate over the usage of these trials to develop a COVID-19 vaccine. Earth Day Goes Digital Next Wednesday is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, marking five decades of environmental actions, like community cleanup, planting trees, or marching in the streets. But this year, coronavirus has led to the cancellation of planned marches and large-scale events. Instead, many people will be participating in a digital Earth Day. Ira talks to Kathleen Rogers, president of the Earth Day Network about what people can do to participate, parallels between climate change and coronavirus, and environmental action in the age of the Trump administration. Uncovering Antarctica's Rainforest Scientists found 90 million-year-old evidence that Antarctica wasn’t always a snow-covered continent. New ice core research provides evidence that the frozen land was once a temperature rainforest. Marine geologist Johann Klages, an author on the study, discusses what temperature the Earth would need to be to support such an environment in Antarctica, and how that can be used to create more accurate climate models. Show Off Your Backyard Birds And Bugs Get involved in Citizen Science Month by snapping pictures of nature from your backyard with City Nature Challenge.
Colleen Hitchcock, a biologist at Brandeis University, answers questions about citizen science. Find out how you can participate in the upcoming City Nature Challenge!
The first-ever Citizen Science Day was held in 2016 and the citizen science teams at Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and California Academy of Sciences dreamed up a fun way to capitalize on their home cities’ friendly rivalry and hold a citizen science event around urban biodiversity. That was the first City Nature Challenge, a friendly competition between Los Angeles and San Francisco, engaging residents and visitors in documenting nature to better understand urban biodiversity. Listen in as Alison tells us why and how you can participate.Show notesCalifornia Academy of ScienceiNaturalistGlobal Biodiversity Information FacilitySnapshot California CoastMarine Protected AreasWomen in Steppe Sign-Up PageIntro Bird Call: American Robin (Recorded May, 2019 Oregon)Outro Bird Call: Purple Finch (Recorded June, 2019 Oregon)Connect with us at...IG: @Hannahgoesbirding and @Erikgoesbirding Twitter: @WeGoBirding Facebook: @HannahandErikGoBirding Email us at HannahandErikGoBirding@gmail.com Website: http://www.gobirdingpodcast.com
We sat down with Texas Parks and Wildlife's Urban Biologist Sam Kieschnick in early March 2020 for a chat about the annual Challenge, scheduled for Friday, April 24th thru Monday, April 27th. While the bioblitzes and other group activities referenced in the interview will no longer occur due to COVID-19 concerns, City Nature Challenge lives on as a non-competitive, citizen science collaboration! Tune in to learn why our observations matter, and be ready come April 24th to capture photos from whatever outdoor space you can permissibly access. Observations of "wild things" photographed in backyards or from apartment patios contribute too!
Lila Higgins, Senior Manager Community Science and Co-founder of the City Nature Challenge, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. The planet’s human population is rapidly expanding towards 8 billion people. More people live in cities and developed areas than in rural or non-developed areas. Around the world, we are progressively becoming more urban, and less familiar with the natural world. This trend is highlighted by the continued removal of nature words from the Oxford Junior Dictionary. Recently, words like acorn, fungus, fern, and willow were removed from the dictionary, and replaced with blog, MP3 player, and chatroom. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is tackling this trend head on, to connect people to their urban nature and create an environmentally literate public. Lila Higgins will speak about her leadership in the community science field, from co-founding the large global City Nature Challenge event, to her work in the local community that bring people together, in their own neighborhoods, to learn about and document nature. She will talk about the NSF, Wellcome Trust, and ESRC funded learning research she is conducting on international youth’s development of environmental science agency, and various other projects that work to communicate urban nature concepts to a wide audience. Projects such as the Museum’s Nature Gardens & Nature Lab exhibits, the recently published Wild LA book, and use of novel social media practices with @NatureinLA.
EP.03 – Systems Intelligence & Feedback Loops Shaping the Cities of Tomorrow. In this episode, we sit with Carlo Ratti from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Senseable City Lab http://http://senseable.mit.edu to talk about the rise of urban intelligence and the creation of feedback loops between humans and the built environment. During our talk, Carlo explains how the ability to collect and use data to better understand, design and learn how we live in cities, is just the beginning of a new type of urban intelligence empowered by citizens. Carlo talks about two projects by the Sensible City Lab: Treepeida http://senseable.mit.edu/treepedia; and the City Nature Challenge http://senseable.mit.edu/city-nature-challenge as examples of progress for how to measure green areas in cities. He explains that using data-driven technologies to read and understand urban nature, is an opportunity for change. Through his most recent publication, The City of Tomorrow: Sensors, Networks, Hackers, and the Future of Urban Life (2016), he suggests that the future of the built environment will be strongly shaped by the new norms in communication and interactions that will significantly transform the urban space of today.
Tony and Billy talk about the City Nature Challenge 2019 and hear from four other participating cities: Kelly O’Donnell from NYC, Peter Kleinhenz (remember him from Right Under Our Noses?) from Tallahassee, and John Starmer from Maui, AND we hear … Continue reading →
Klobuchar Goes Green / A Citizen Science BioBlitz / Beyond the Headlines / Microbeads in the Great Lakes / Microplastics Leading to Macro-Problems / A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration A handy smartphone app is all that's needed to participate in a citizen science "bioblitz", a brief, intensive survey of biological diversity over a set area and time. This year, thousands are expected to participate in the City Nature Challenge. Also, microplastics are everywhere, and sewage treatment doesn't remove them from the water. So they end up in lakes and streams, posing a growing threat to freshwater and saltwater ecosystems. And a veteran field guide author discusses the incredible phenomenon that happens every spring and fall, as a journey of thousands of miles begins with a single flap. The wonders of migration and more, in this episode of Living on Earth from PRI.
Klobuchar Goes Green / A Citizen Science BioBlitz / Beyond the Headlines / Microbeads in the Great Lakes / Microplastics Leading to Macro-Problems / A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration A handy smartphone app is all that's needed to participate in a citizen science "bioblitz", a brief, intensive survey of biological diversity over a set area and time. This year, thousands are expected to participate in the City Nature Challenge. Also, microplastics are everywhere, and sewage treatment doesn't remove them from the water. So they end up in lakes and streams, posing a growing threat to freshwater and saltwater ecosystems. And a veteran field guide author discusses the incredible phenomenon that happens every spring and fall, as a journey of thousands of miles begins with a single flap. The wonders of migration and more, in this episode of Living on Earth from PRI.
Klobuchar Goes Green / A Citizen Science BioBlitz / Beyond the Headlines / Microbeads in the Great Lakes / Microplastics Leading to Macro-Problems / A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration A handy smartphone app is all that's needed to participate in a citizen science "bioblitz", a brief, intensive survey of biological diversity over a set area and time. This year, thousands are expected to participate in the City Nature Challenge. Also, microplastics are everywhere, and sewage treatment doesn't remove them from the water. So they end up in lakes and streams, posing a growing threat to freshwater and saltwater ecosystems. And a veteran field guide author discusses the incredible phenomenon that happens every spring and fall, as a journey of thousands of miles begins with a single flap. The wonders of migration and more, in this episode of Living on Earth from PRI.
Klobuchar Goes Green / A Citizen Science BioBlitz / Beyond the Headlines / Microbeads in the Great Lakes / Microplastics Leading to Macro-Problems / A Season on the Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration A handy smartphone app is all that's needed to participate in a citizen science "bioblitz", a brief, intensive survey of biological diversity over a set area and time. This year, thousands are expected to participate in the City Nature Challenge. Also, microplastics are everywhere, and sewage treatment doesn't remove them from the water. So they end up in lakes and streams, posing a growing threat to freshwater and saltwater ecosystems. And a veteran field guide author discusses the incredible phenomenon that happens every spring and fall, as a journey of thousands of miles begins with a single flap. The wonders of migration and more, in this episode of Living on Earth from PRI.
Si chiama City Nature Challenge ed è una gara di fotografia naturalistica globale, in questi giorni anche in Italia
Patients who suffer neurological impairments preventing them from speaking potentially face a severely limited existence. Being able to express yourself in real time is a large part of our identity. In the journal Nature this week, scientists from the University of California, San Francisco, report a new technique for synthesising speech based on measurements of neural signals taken from the brain. Author Dr Gopala Anumanchipalli tells Adam about how this proof of principle could one day form the basis for a speech prosthesis for patients who have lost the ability to converse. Around the world this weekend (April 26th-29th 2019) people are being encouraged to participate in the City Nature Challenge, a global effort to catalogue urban wildlife using a free mobile app. Reporter Geoff Marsh travelled to the California Academy of Sciences, home of the initiative, to meet those behind it and how we might all take part. The third act in our drama is a chat with journalist and writer Will Storr about his new book - the Science of Storytelling - which explores the structure of stories with relation to our evolution and brain structure. Primeval instincts of expectation, subversion and causation intertwine with camp-fire sagas from the beginning of conversation. What can this science of storytelling contribute to the art of telling stories about science? A ripping yarn indeed. Producer: Alex Mansfield
The Klang Valley City Nature Challenge is a 4-day bioblitz style international competition between cities, to engage as many people as possible to document as much urban wildlife as possible. Today on Earth Day, we find out more about this challenge from Tan Kai Ren and Nurul Fitrah Marican, from the University of Malaya's The Rimba Project, who are part of the organising committee for this challenge.
The Klang Valley City Nature Challenge is a 4-day bioblitz style international competition between cities, to engage as many people as possible to document as much urban wildlife as possible. Today on Earth Day, we find out more about this challenge from Tan Kai Ren and Nurul Fitrah Marican, from the University of Malaya's The Rimba Project, who are part of the organising committee for this challenge.
The Klang Valley City Nature Challenge is a 4-day bioblitz style international competition between cities, to engage as many people as possible to document as much urban wildlife as possible. Today on Earth Day, we find out more about this challenge from Tan Kai Ren and Nurul Fitrah Marican, from the University of Malaya's The Rimba Project, who are part of the organising committee for this challenge.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jann Vendetti is the Twila Bratcher Chair in Malacological Research at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Malacology is the study of mollusks (snails, clams, octopus), and Jann's focus is snails. She was a postdoctoral researcher at California State University, Los Angeles and received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley's Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Paleontology. She is interested in urban biodiversity of snail and slug species, both introduced and native. In this episode we cover: What are the different types of terrestrial and marine mollusks? How is climate change impacting various mollusk populations? How do mollusks compare to and differ from more familiar taxa such as mammals? Jann's favorite mollusk - the purple sea snail! Jann Vendetti & The Natural History Museum of LA Online: Jann Vendetti on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jann-vendetti-455b4412/ City Nature Challenge 2019 - April 26, 27 & 28: http://citynaturechallenge.org/ Natural History Museum of LA (NHMLA): https://nhm.org Snails and slugs Living in Metropolitan Environments (SLIME) Project: https://nhm.org/site/activities-programs/citizen-science/slime iNaturalist (app used in the City Nature Challenge): iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/inaturalist/id421397028?mt=8 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.inaturalist.android&hl=en_US Website: https://www.inaturalist.org/ Suggested Resources from Jann: Who do you look up to? Dr. Eugenie Clark, the “Shark Lady”: https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/eugenie-clark-shark-lady Sylvia Earle - Mission Blue Foundation: https://mission-blue.org/ Mission Blue, the documentary on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/70308278 Suggested online resource: ScienceDaily.com Books: Shark Lady: The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean's Most Fearless Scientist Stephen Jay Gould: The Unofficial Stephen Jay Gould Archive: http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ Stephen Jay Gould's books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2X4C2pc Natalie Angier: Natalie Angier's books on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2Xh79y9 ----- Do you like A Sustainable Mind? Don't forget to subscribe, share, and rate & review. Did you know that ASM is now a 501(c)3 charitable organization? Become one of our donors with a tax-deductible donation on https://ASustainableMind.WeDid.it
Taking inventory of the wild things that abound isn’t something you get to do everyday. The global ‘City Nature Challenge’ hopes you’ll grab the chance later this month. More than 150 cities worldwide are taking part in the friendly competition. Regional organizer Maura Duffy, Conservation Project Manager at the National Aquarium, says data collection for a project like this goes beyond what scientists can do on their own:
It's that time of year again! The Dallas/Fort Worth area is locking horns with other cities around the world to see who can make the most nature observations. Jill Nugent, Associate Dean of Science at Southern New Hampshire University, shares insight into this friendly competition and how we can all help.
The 2019 City Nature Challenge is a competitive urban bioblitz. Tony and Billy talk about the CNC and Philadelphia’s plans after talking about Tony’s new rescued cat (about 15 min). We also go through a grab bag of fun urban … Continue reading →
Attention all Nature Lovers and Amateur Naturalists, Friday April 27th kicks of the City Nature Challenge, where Boulder will compete with 65 cities throughout the world to identify the most species within their area over a 4 day period. It's a competition to identify biodiversity powered by the enthusiasm of citizen scientists. Chip Grandits speaks with Dave Sutherland and Melanie Hill two members of the Wild Boulder Team, which is organizing the City Nature Challenge for Boulder. Citizen science is enhanced with iNaturalist a crowd sourcing platform developed by the California Academy of Sciences with applications for you smartphone which can help you can tap into a global network of amateurs and experts to help identify what species that thing is which you can never quite identify. Host: Chip Grandits Producer: Chip Grandits Engineer: Chip Grandits Additional contributions: Joel Parker Executive Producer: Joel Parker Listen to the Show:
Kirk Bien joins the show to talk about Kirk's Fly Shop & to give Terry an update on fly fishing the rivers up north. Matt Schulz joins the show to talk about crowd-sourcing & digital cameras to take your pictures. Also, Terry asks Matt about iNaturalist & the City Nature Challenge, as well as a free app anglers & outdoor enthusiasts can download. Ray Reeves of Adventure Camper joins the show to talk about some current deals going on at Adventure Camper, and the Open House coming up on May 12th. Carrie Tucker joins the show to talk about the fishing at Pueblo Reservoir & the variety of fish year-round. Carrie explains why anglers will have to work harder to land the bigger fish when things start to heat up. Robin Knox joins the show to talk about Terry Wickstrom Outdoors being on the radio for 20 years & his favorite memories about Terry's show. Also, Terry's humble beginnings & how everything got started in Colorado. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
17 countries. 65 cities, including Dallas. In this episode, we learn about an upcoming friendly competition, open to all, for observing and documenting urban nature. Our guests are Texas Parks and Wildlife's Urban Biologist Sam Keischnick and SNHU Associate Dean of Science Jill Nugent. Sam and Jill are both passionate citizen science advocates.
With Earth Day coming up, we are challenged by a lot of "you can do." Individual efforts matter, but how much? Earthworms endorses two challenges that WILL have an impact, in our lives and for our planet. The DRAWDOWN Eco-Challenge, running nationally April 4-25, builds on ten years of eco-challenge experience from Northwest Earth institute to engage individual actions. Multiplying impacts, this 2018 challenge correlates our actions to the measures mapped, measured and prioritized by Project DRAWDOWN for collective capacity to pull climate-changing carbon out of Earth's atmosphere. Lacy Cagle, Director of Learning for NWEI, shares these potentials with Earthworms host Jean Ponzi. Then from April 27-30, residents of the St. Louis region - and 65 other cities around the WORLD - can contribute to understanding about local biodiversity by participating in the City Nature Challenge, as described by Earthworms guest Sheila Voss, VP of Education at the Missouri Botanical Garden . Using the (totally terrific!) app iNaturalist, humans of all ages can log observations of plants and critters as communities "compete" to gather intel about local biodiversity. In St. Louis, observations logged during City Nature Challenge days will establish a baseline of biodiversity data crucial to address regional nature-preservation goals. In Earthworms' opinion, these are two Challenges WORTH TAKING! Music: Rearview performed live at KDHX by Belle Star THANKS to Anna Holland, ace Earthworms engineer Related Earthworms Conversations: DRAWDOWN Solutions to Reverse Global Warming (March 2018) Learning Green: Northwest Earth Institute (October 2017)
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