City Nature Challenge 2024: Indianapolis's Journal

In the last four days over 250 citizen scientists have made over 5k observations! You did that and you are awesome!

Also, congratulations to user indiana-ang for being our top observer at midnight last night!

Whether you made 1 or 100 observations, we're all part of this collective effort to help bring awareness to urban biodiversity and grow our naturalist community who cares about nature everywhere. Thank you for being a part of this amazing community.

We wanted to remind all of you that we're now in the "uploading and identifying" phase of the City Nature Challenge. We can continue to upload observations, as long as they were made in the April 26 to April 29 window. We also have these few days to give you time to look at observations and work on confirming or refining the identifications. If you haven't used it yet, definitely click the "Observations" tab near the top of our city's CNC project on iNaturalist and then click the "identify" button to see all the observations that still need IDs to help them get to research grade.

Whatever our numbers are at 9am on Sunday will be our "final" numbers for the results of the City Nature Challenge! We'll announce the "big" results: observations, species, and people, on Sunday. And we'll send out more detailed and nuanced results that dive a bit deeper into the data by Monday and will highlight the most "wow" findings!

As you're going through observations, if you see any interesting ones - rare/endangered species, great photos, observations with great stories, etc., please make a new thread in the facebook event (below) and share them! The media loves hearing about particular observations that are unique or important or interesting, and we'd love to have many to share from all over the city!

https://www.facebook.com/events/3605050833076596/

Thanks to all of you again - we are so appreciative of everything you've done in support of the City Nature Challenge, and we couldn't have worked with a better group of people - you all are awesome!

PS: You can pick up your swag bag at Ash & Elm this Tuesday, April 30th during Books, Booze, and Brains (4:30pm to 6:30pm) where we will be discussing "This is Your Mind on Plants" by Michael Pollan! https://www.facebook.com/events/349528294667282/

Cheers,
The #CNCIndy Team

Good Morning Citizen Science Friends!

We broke 3k observations around 10pm last night! Keep up the good work #IndyCNC friends!

We have until midnight tonight to show how awesome Indianapolis is at citizen science, so lets make some lunch observations and some early evening observations so we can finish out the #CityNatureChallenge like champions!

Also, congratulations to user evanaturalist for being our top observer at 23:00 last night!

Tonight is the final night of the challenge so we will pull the final score at midnight, and since everyday is a different winner (you can't win twice) you can make it to top of the board tonight to win some swag!

PS: You can pick up your swag bag at Ash & Elm this Tuesday, April 30th during Books, Booze, and Brains (4:30pm to 6:30pm) where we will be discussing "This is Your Mind on Plants" by Michael Pollan!

Cheers,
The #CNCIndy Team

We hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weather yesterday!

We hit 2k observations moments before midnight last night! You are all amazing!

Congratulations to user dominicentomology for securing top observer status at 23:00 last night and winning a swag bag!

Now that we have over 180 observers contributing to #IndyCNC we want to ask for your help: Please call or text one person today and ask them to join the #CityNatureChallenge so that we can finish strong! We have until Monday (April 29th) at 23:59 to submit observations!

All of the info to join is at the link below!
http://indianasciences.org/cnc-2024/

Thank you all so much for joining in this grand #CitizenScience project and best of luck observing today!

PS: You can pick up your swag bag at Ash & Elm this Tuesday, April 30th during Books, Booze, and Brains (4:30pm to 6:30pm) where we will be discussing "This is Your Mind on Plants" by Michael Pollan!

Cheers,
The Indianapolis City Nature Challenge Team

Good Evening Citizen Science Friends!

We broke 1k observations around 1pm this afternoon!

https://citynaturechallenge.org/collective-results-2024/

We hope you are out safely and responsibly enjoying the #IndyCNC so make sure you get those observations in so we can have our best data yet!

Congratulations to user jessicah_naturalist for being our top observer at 23:00 last night!

Everyday is a different winner (you can't win twice) so be at the top of the board tonight to win some swag!

Also, please help spread the word on social media by posting your pictures out in our urban greenspaces with the #IndyCNC hashtag!

PS: You can pick up your swag bag at Ash & Elm this Tuesday, April 30th during Books, Booze, and Brains (4:30pm to 6:30pm) where we will be discussing "This is Your Mind on Plants" by Michael Pollan!

Cheers,
The #IndyCNC Team