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On This Day – November 12-13, 1833

The Leonid meteor storm lit up the night sky across the United States, astonishing those awake to witness as between 50,000 and 150,000 meteors fell each hour. Yale professor Denison Olmsted, eager to understand the phenomenon, wrote a letter to the New …Haven Daily Herald, asking the public for any information about what they saw. Responses poured in from across the country, allowing Olmsted to crowdsource eyewitness accounts to study the meteor storm. His findings, published in 1834, marked an early example of citizen science, as Olmsted used everyday descriptions to advance our understanding of meteors.

#OnThisDay #LeonidMeteorStorm #1833 #History #Astronomy #CitizenScience #DenisonOlmsted #Meteors

Learn how to create a scientific botanical illustration in the comfort of your own home in this online workshop with Dr Anna Voytsekhovich! 🌿

✏ Date: 23 November 2024
✏ Time: 10:00am – 11:30am
✏ Format: ONLINE tutorial with feedback on work submitted.

This …workshop will cover the requirements for scientific botanical illustration, how to illustrate plants and their parts and how to create different textures using inks. After the tutorial you'll be able to practice what you've learned before tackling a full illustration. You'll also get plenty of time after the workshop has concluded to finish your illustration and send it to Anna for feedback. Use the information and skills you learn to create a piece for the Margaret Flockton award!

Book now via our website or the shop links!
https://natureartlab.com.au/products/introduction-to-scientific-botanical-illustration-in-ink-online-with-anna-voytsekhovich

#science #citsci #sustainability #nature #arttherapy #canberra #brisbane #natureart #botanicalart #natureartlab #botanical #education #illustration #artclass #onlineartclass #scientificillustration #tutorials #margaretflockton

Green Forester Moth (Adscita statices)

This shot is from way back in July and I honestly have no idea why I haven't posted it until now.. these have got to be some of my favorite native moths, their scales are just gorgeous!

📸: Fujifilm X-H2, Laowa 65mm f/2.8, flash with …#cygnustechdiffuser

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🌱 Et si votre connaissance du ter-ter ne se limitait plus à la surface ?

🧪 Approfondissez votre connaissance du quartier des Quatre Chemins avec le "living soils lab", un projet de sciences participatives sondant la qualité de nos sols urbains.

Sols récemment …désartificialisés, en friche ou en agriculture urbaine, venez découvrir leurs histoires, leurs états et les services écosystémiques qu’ils nous offrent. 🌍💚

Prochains ateliers :
🪱 lundi 11 novembre à 15h au Square Anne Frank, Pantin
🪱 mercredi 13 novembre à 14h30 à Artagon, Pantin
🪱 samedi 16 novembre à 14h30 à la Friche 67, 67 avenue Edouard Vaillant, Pantin

Gratuit et ouvert à toutes et à tous, à partir de 10 ans

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Ce projet bénéficie du soutien du programme impetus4cs.

#LivingSoilsLab #ScienceCitoyenne #SolsUrbains #RésilienceClimatique #Pantin #Citsci #CitizenScience

// Sanctuary Solutions 🪸 🌊
Our team was fortunate to be able to present and participate in the marinesanctuaryfdn’s “Sanctuary Solutions” coral thermal stress design thinking challenge last week in Key Largo, FL! The workshop brought coral restoration practitioners, community …stewards, blue tech engineers, and noaa reef managers to hear ideas from some of the best and brightest students across the United States and brainstorm how to bring their solutions into practice.

A huge congratulations to the univmiami’s team from the umiamiengineering school on their grand prize-winning idea centered around shading critical coral nursery and reef sites with their “HexHive” design! We look forward to continuing these conversations with all of the competing schools and hearing them present at the coralrestorationconsortium’s Reef Futures conference as well as the National Marine Sanctuary Foundation’s Capitol Hill Ocean Week!

Complex problems require complex solutions so we were excited to see so many different disciplines and stakeholders come together to better protect and conserve our coral reefs!

Any doctor who posts something like this has an Ego / Emotional Intelligence ratio of infinity ♾️. If someone cites a degree for THE reason they’re an authority… back away

P.S. This is no more or less true for the fact that it’s being posted by someone getting his second …doctoral degree from Harvard… but it does make it funny 😆

#citizenscience #futureofmedicine

Feliz día de la fauna nativa de Chile!!!

Moscas Florícolas de Chile lo celebra con esta lámina especial. Recordemos que hace muy poco se actualizó el número de familias, géneros y especies de moscas, tipulas y mosquitos presente en el país: 97 familias en sentido amplio (100 en …estricto rigor), 930 géneros y 4108 especies (aunque ya se han sumado unas pocas más y vienen más en camino!).

Esperamos que muchas personas reconozcan el valor de las moscas por medio de sus contribuciones naturales como la polinización, el control de plagas, la regulación poblacional, la descomposición y ciclado de nutrientes, entre otros tantos más. Este proyecto que pronto cumplirá 10 años de vida, se prepara para celebrar con todo este hito. También durante todo el próximo año habrán actividades a lo largo de todo Chile con el objeto de difundir más el porque debemos cuidar y estudiar las moscas.

Si quieres contribuir con registros de moscas, en la banda amarilla puedes seguir nuestras redes, donde nuestros proyectos de Facebook y iNaturalist recopilan los registros que suben las personas, mientras que Twitter (X ahora) e Instagram ayudar a ser la caja de resonancia de nuestras contribuciones académicas y muestran la diversidad de nuestra preciosa fauna de moscas nativas!

Únetenos y aprende con nosotros!

📸 macrocl

#díadelafaunanativa #moscasfloricolasdechile #moscasfloricolas #moscaspolinizadoras #moscasnativaschile #moscasnativas #moscasdechile #polinizadoresnativos #polinizadoresnativoschile #cienciaciudadana #citizenscience #citsci #fly_nature #fly_world #fly_diversity #fotonaturalezachile #faunasilvestrechilena #faunanativadechile

The ever variable Mottled Umber 🍁 Swipe to the last picture ti see how different they can look. You may think it’s a male/female difference but with this species the females are actually flightless, living on tree trunks/fence posts.
A few species are like this, and can look like two …totally different moths…which makes IDs and absolute BLAST ✨ especially when you’re just starting out moth recording 😅 very beautiful moths though 🍁

Last weekend, 22 citizen scientists paddled along Takayna's rivers, surveying for endangered species like the Tasmanian Azure Kingfisher, that rely on waterways flowing through forests threatened by mining 🚣🏽‍♂️

Unlike its cousin from the mainland, the Tasmanian Azure …Kingfisher is becoming alarmingly rare, with Takayna as one of its last strongholds 📉 The reason behind its population decline remains unknown, and the government is knowingly leaving this species in a blind spot.

By documenting and monitoring threatened species in at-risk areas, we are campaigning for their protection.

🦅 Many eagles were sighted over the weekend, and a new nest was found that will need to be protected.

Get involved! Stay tuned for the dates of our upcoming 'Summer of Swifties' citizen science project to find and record Swift Parrots in forests that are threatened by logging.

📸 2 – 4 by Rob Blakers

#CitizenScience #Takayna #SwiftParrots