{"id":2825,"date":"2026-09-02T15:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/?p=2825"},"modified":"2026-09-02T15:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T19:07:53","slug":"2026-willowbrook-park-bioblitz-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/2026\/09\/02\/2026-willowbrook-park-bioblitz-data\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Willowbrook Park BioBlitz Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Updates: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Sept 2, 2026: Full data set is coming soon! For now, check out our iNaturalist project page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/2026-macaulay-honors-college-willowbrook-park-bioblitz\">https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/2026-macaulay-honors-college-willowbrook-park-bioblitz<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Complete BioBlitz Data and Results<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Expected on or before 9\/22\/2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">iNaturalist Data from the 2026 BioBlitz<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See link at the top of the page. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Even More Data:<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Data menu (left side panel) links you to all previous Macaulay BioBlitz data sets. Click&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/category\/data\/\">here<\/a>&nbsp;to see all of those posts together. Please keep in mind that 2020 and 2021 were Remote BioBlitzes and the data were collected differently in those years (i.e. not in single park over a weekend).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NYC arm of the global City Nature Challenge, a four-day city-wide public BioBlitz run entirely on iNaturalist, is organized out of Macaulay by Dr. Kelly O\u2019Donnell. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/city-nature-challenge-new-york-city\">City Nature Challenge: NYC umbrella project<\/a>&nbsp;will link you to all years of previous CNC:NYC results. Download those data in the same way you would download iNaturalist data for the BioBlitz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There also have been some non-Macaulay-affiliated BioBlitzes in NYC. Including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2007, 2009, and 2010&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/nbii-nin.ciesin.columbia.edu\/jamaicabay\/bioblitz\/2007BioBlitz\/2007BioBlitz.jsp\">Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge BioBlitzes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/2016-national-parks-bioblitz-gateway-jamaica-bay-bioblitz\">Gateway National Park BioBlitz<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2015 Van Cortlandt Park BioBlitz (coming soon)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2003&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2013\/10\/2003-Central-Park-BioBlitz-Summary-Data.xlsx\">BioBlitz in Central Park<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some historical biodiversity information, check out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/\">Biodiversity Heritage Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">iNaturalist Research Grade records get uploaded into the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbif.org\/\">Global Biodiversity Information Facility<\/a>&nbsp;(GBIF), an open access global repository for species occurrence data. Students and faculty can visit this site to search for relevant data. For example, NYBG uploads their digital herbarium records here.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idigbio.org\/\">iDigBio<\/a>&nbsp;is another source for digital collections. For both of these, you can search for Van Cortlandt Park to find records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Useful Resources:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/\">iNaturalist<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 a global database and social network for ecological observations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/vh\/\">NYBG\u2019s C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 represents almost 200 years of botanical documentation. All have coordinates if you are interested in mapping the records to see what was found in some previous BioBlitz locations.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/opendata.cityofnewyork.us\/\">NYC Open Data<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 a collection of public datasets collected by the city and its partners. Includes tree censuses, water quality measures, and other environmental data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/naturalareasnyc.org\/map\">Natural Area Conservancy Map<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 a map featuring data on green space and built space across the five boroughs of NYC.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eol.org\/\">Encyclopedia of Life<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 a curated encyclopedia of every multicellular species on earth.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arctosdb.org\/\">Arctos<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 this is an access point to a number of online museum collections.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/\">eBird<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 this database features data from user-contributed bird sightings.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plants.sc.egov.usda.gov\/home\">USDA PLANTS Database<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a database kept by the USDA that reports many useful characteristics about plant species, including their status as native or exotic\/invasive.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates: Sept 2, 2026: Full data set is coming soon! For now, check out our iNaturalist project page: https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/projects\/2026-macaulay-honors-college-willowbrook-park-bioblitz Complete BioBlitz Data and Results Expected on or before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-28","category-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2828,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions\/2828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/bioblitz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}