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live in Bedford, Nova Scotia On 2/22/2012 1:10 PM, Paul L wrote: > I just learned of your nature sightings list and see there are many > users publishing nature sightings. These sightings could provide useful > scientific data when pooled together in a database (citizen science). > That's why I created the website 'Wildlife Sightings', > http://www.junponline.com > > I would appreciate any feedback from NatureNS users on this citizen > science project and would be delighted to assist anyone with questions > on it. I live in Bedford, Nova Scotia and could meet with any > organizations wishing to use these free services to conduct their own > wildlife surveys. * we've had this idea of gathering in natural history observations since 1992, when we tried to form a "Biological Checklist of [our local] Kemptville Creek Drainage Basin," of which the only surviving memorial is my e-mail address - bckcdb@istar.ca. Dan Ladouceur had the same idea and tried to launch it with his Green Bird Network, which seems to have languished since its launch in 2007 - http://www.techwiz.ca/greenbird/ One thing that survives from 1999 is our "Eastern Ontario Natural History NatureList" which is now a google group - http://groups.google.com/group/naturelist/about?hl=en - and which like NatureNS and NatureNB preserves thousands of observations from recent decades. After various trials, and observing various databases having been shed or neglected by their sponsoring institutions, we're now trying to assemble a Canada-wide NGO, Fragile Inheritance - http://fragileinheritance.org/ - to standardize and archive such observations on all taxa. It's slow going, beset with interruptions and difficulties; it's a subject not regarded as "sexy" by potential funders, and we've been mostly consumed by keeping our own database fed with our own observations - http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/database/database.htm - now pushing 100,000 records, and trying to support ourselves. There is a phenomenal amount of data in blogs and e-mail lists of various kinds, of various levels of accuracy and usefulness, both in private blogs and public sites such as ebird and bugguide, but some organization ought to be mining the various sources, wrenching records into a standard format, and georeferencing them as well as possible. > Wildlife Sightings, http://www.junponline.com * Fragile Inheritance has fretted that there hasn't been a generalized portal for natural history observations, and you've approached it, though without categories for inorganic and generalized records. Kari Gunson of Eco-kare - http://www.eco-kare.com/index.html - is working with FI towards a database of road-related data (initially large roadkills) as a precursor to an adeqautely funded generalized natural history database. So if you, or any on NatureNS, would like to join in this effort, we can add you to the FI mailing list, and we'll see what can come from the dream of having a uniform, archived, format for reporting and recording natural history data in Canada. fred. ------------------------------------------------------------ Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ South Nation Basin Art & Science Book http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------
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