SAVE THE DATE! BioBlitz will be August 29-30, 2026

The Class of 2029 will participate in BioBlitz on August 29-30, 2026 at Willowbrook Park in Staten Island! Free shuttle bus service to and from Willowbrook will be…

Registration

Faculty: Please use the link you received from Kelly O’Donnell to register. This form is for students.

It Turned into a BioBlitz!

Read Kelly O’Donnell and Lisa Brundage’s chapter “It Turned into a Bioblitz: Urban Data Collection for Building Scientific Literacy and Environmental Connection,” published in Transforming Education for Sustainability: Discourses on Justice, Inclusion, and Authenticity.

iNaturalist Data Download Guide

Follow these instructions for downloading CSV files directly from iNaturalist.

Know Before You Go

Check-in for all students will be near the Carousel for All Children at Willowbrook Park, 2 Eton Place, Staten Island. Look for the tents and BioBlitz signs. Students have…

2024 Van Cortlandt Park BioBlitz Data

Last Updated: October 22, 2024 – Updated compiled dataset file posted. Spelling corrections and new species added. See file for full details.  Prior Updates: October 1, 2024 –…

2023 Prospect Park BioBlitz Data

Last Updated: October 3, 2023 – corrections to some entries, one new species added! Prior Updates: September 30, 2023 – initial data file posted Here is the current…

2022 Randall’s Island BioBlitz Data

Last updated: October 5, 2022 Here is the current species and observation lists for the 2022 Macaulay Honors College Randall’s Island Park BioBlitz: The first sheet in the…

Spotted Lanternfly Alert!

While you are participating in the BioBlitz, you may come across the spotted lanternfly, a species that poses a threat to plant life in our area. Here is…

2021 Remote BioBlitz Data

Our 2021 Remote BioBlitz is over! We strongly encourage you to check out the project pages and download the data you need shortly before you need them. It…

2020 Remote BioBlitz Data

Here is the current (11/2/20) species and observation lists for the 2020 Macaulay Honors College Remote BioBlitz: 2020-Remote-BioBlitz-Data-11_2_20. We are still at just under 40% of these observations…

Changing iNaturalist Privacy Settings and Adding Locations on iOS

Changing your privacy settings and adding locations to an iNaturalist observation is easy in iOS. To change your privacy, go to the Details page of an observation. This…

Location Settings on iNaturalist

You installed iNaturalist. Now what? This quick video takes you through the basics of making mobile observations. When you add an observation to iNaturalist, knowing the location where…

2019 Green-Wood Cemetery Gowanus Canal BioBlitz Data

Here is the current species and observation lists for the 2019 Macaulay Honors College Green-Wood Cemetery Gowanus Canal BioBlitz: 2019-Green-Wood-Gowanus-BioBlitz-Data-10_9_19. The first sheet is a summary page with…

2018 Inwood Hill Park BioBlitz Data

UPDATED OCTOBER 24 2018 Here is the current species and observation list for the 2018 Macaulay Honors College Inwood Hill Park BioBltiz: 2018-Inwood-Hill-Park-BioBlitz-Data-10_24_18. The first sheet is a…

2017 Alley Pond Park BioBlitz Data

UPDATED NOVEMBER 22 2017 Here is the current species and observation list for the 2017 Macaulay Honors College Alley Pond Park BioBlitz: 2017-Alley-Pond-BioBlitz-Data-November2017. The first sheet is a…

2016 Brooklyn Bridge Park BioBlitz Data

Update: These data are now current as of November 2017. We are still waiting for lab identification of a number of arthropod species. Microbial diversity analysis information can…

2015 Freshkills Park BioBlitz Data

These data are current as of 3/21/16. We are still waiting for lab identification of a number of arthropod species as well as the acoustical analysis of bat…

2014 NYBG BioBlitz Data

These data are current as of 8/01/2015. We are still waiting for lab identification of a number of arthropod species. These files will be updated as those data…

2013 Central Park BioBlitz Data

Our students and scientists conducted a very successful species inventory of Central Park, finding a total of 571different species. We achieved our two main goals for the BioBlitz:…