Registration for the 2024 BioBlitz is now closed. We are no longer able to process requests for changes to shift times. Students who have not registered may attend…
I am an assistant professor at UConn Stamford and have done urban population genetic research on salamanders and squirrels to see how urbanization affects native wildlife in the…
Get ready, class of 2027! Your BioBlitz will be September 14-15, 2024 at Van Cortlandt Park. Check-in will take place outside the Van Cortlandt Park Golf Lake House…
My lab focuses on the study of urban microbial communities, and we have lead a national initiative to provide research experiences for undergraduate students in exploring complex microbiomes…
Nickolas Dubin is a Queens-native Naturalist and Queens College Masters Student, with a background in Geology. He teaches both ecology and geology labs at Queens College, and specializes…
Chris Kreussling (Flatbush Gardener) is an urban naturalist and avid iNaturalist user (@xris) based in Brooklyn. Aside from their habitat garden, their “local patch” is Prospect Park.
Olga Calderón is a professor of Biology and Microbiology at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). She received her Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate School and University Center in Science…
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.
We are excited to announce our BioBlitz for the Class of 2026 at Prospect Park on September 9-10, 2023! Registration will open in late August. While you are…
Christian Liriano is a student at CUNY and a freelance field biologist. His research interests are the habitat ecology/taxonomy of understudied organisms from northeastern North America (e.g., spiders,…
Zihao Wang is a botanist affiliated with NYC Parks. Zihao says, “As an immigrant to the U.S., observing local nature and identifying plants is my way of making…
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…