How to Use iNaturalist

Led by Virginia Master Naturalists and iNaturalist Ambassadors Lorna Schmid and David Boldt, learn to use iNaturalist to make observations that contribute to the world's largest biodiversity dataset.

iNaturalist is an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information, a crowdsourced species identification system, and an organism occurrence recording tool. In this program, you will learn more about iNaturalist, how it works, and how your observations can help community science and power conservation efforts.

This program is a collaboration with Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy. 

Use this link to participate. The Microsoft Teams link will become active beginning at the start time listed for this program.

Webinar number (access code): 231 157 065 703 188; Webinar password: LCPL

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