Invasive Species Weblog

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Join the Blogger BioBlitz!

Jeremy over at The Voltage Gate has come up with the excellent idea that bloggers should join together during the National Wildlife Federation's Wildlife Week (April 21-29, 2007) to do some BioBlitzing. For those of you not in the know, a BioBlitz involves going out to a specific area and recording every organism you see, or can be more targeted, such as all the birds you observe over the course of a day, week, etc. It's a very simple way to record biodiversity - the power lies in the aggregation of this data among participants across time and space.

If you've got a blog and want to join in, start here. You don't need to be a science blogger to take part. Or if you're not a blogger but you're into photography, you can still participate by joining the Flickr group.

For those of you already committed, below are some logos for you to plaster all over your blogs :-). I'm releasing these under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, so feel free to edit them however you like. In fact, here are the original xcf files (GIMP) format if you want to play with the layers: full-size logo, mini logo, participant logo. Please be nice and download the files to your own server rather than linking directly to these images!

Blogger BioBlitz full-size logo

Blogger BioBlitz mini logo, yellow bird

Blogger BioBlitz mini logo, bird-free

Blogger BioBlitz mini logo, words only

Blogger BioBlitz participant logo with birdy

(via nuthatch)

Labels: BioBlitz, biodiversity, Blogger BioBlitz, National Wildlife Week, National Wilflife Federation

Jennifer Forman Orth 12:01 AM | 7 comments |

7 Comments:

Great logos, Jennifer!

By burning silo, at 3/28/2007 03:50:00 PM

Thanks, Jennifer. Nice work. I've emblazoned one of the buttons (a birdy one, of course, but not a wordy one) on the Reconciliation Ecology blog - and no, I did not link to your server!

By Madhu, at 3/28/2007 06:23:00 PM

Question-
What size lot for the sample? An acre? Ten? A 20' by 20' plot? And how small are we talking...bugs included? Fungi? I have a creek for a border, and abut conservation land, and so find it's a jungle out there.
So to speak.

By vertalio, at 3/28/2007 09:16:00 PM

Thanks bev and Madhu!

vertalio, pick whatever and howmuchever you can handle! See here for details.

By Jennifer Forman Orth, at 3/28/2007 10:08:00 PM

Thanks for the great buttons, Jen! I just added one to my sidebar.

By cpbvk, at 3/29/2007 04:25:00 PM

These are outstanding, Jenn. I had no idea you were such an artist. Thanks!

By Mike, at 3/30/2007 08:22:00 PM