Learning how to be a citizen scientist, slowly.

Everyone desires to be a socially useful person, even those of us in the arts and humanities, but especially those who have entered retirement too. Taking part in iNaturalist has been extremely educational and rewarding. My choice of participation has been to use a camera. Often real scientists are a little leery of us, with good reason.

While I am learning new things about how to contribute to this particular website everyday. Some things that I found particularly useful were:
1) watching the video about Greg Lasley, amateur photography turned pro, who contributed to iNaturalist. This was very helpful in educating me about what scientists expect to get from photographs, sound bits, and other observations by citizen scientists;
2) reading explanations by botanists, fisheries experts, etc about what they need visual evidences to show;
3) study the observations by others in iNaturalist and other sites and learn to compare.

Most of all, I enjoy being outdoors! And I enjoy using my cameras.

FotoJunkie8

Publicado el agosto 15, 2021 12:18 MAÑANA por mandarinduck008 mandarinduck008

Observaciones

Fotos / Sonidos

Qué

Carraspique (Thlaspi arvense)

Observ.

mandarinduck008

Fecha

Agosto 2, 2021 a las 07:04 MAÑANA UTC

Fotos / Sonidos

Qué

Chapulines Oscuros (Género Melanoplus)

Observ.

mandarinduck008

Fecha

Agosto 8, 2021 a las 12:28 TARDE UTC

Descripción

Note egg laying activity. Heat in 30s C and dry weather causing increase of this type of population on prairies.

Fotos / Sonidos

Qué

Mariposa Blanca de la Col (Pieris rapae)

Observ.

mandarinduck008

Fecha

Agosto 12, 2021 a las 04:55 TARDE UTC

Descripción

May be female clouded sulphur butterfly? Why? White?

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