{"id":119,"date":"2023-05-02T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T21:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/?p=119"},"modified":"2023-05-02T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T21:02:04","slug":"may-2nd-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/2023\/05\/02\/may-2nd-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the four-day urban bioblitz, I chose to explore around campus. I thought it would be very interesting to see what kind of wildlife is around us every single day as we walk to and from classes. I found one tree outside the Aiken center that I had never noticed before, and due to the increase in rain, it had bloomed very rapidly! It was very pretty, and although no ID was added, I&#8217;m sure I will find out what species it is soon enough!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"662\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/files\/2023\/05\/LASSTTTTTT-662x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/files\/2023\/05\/LASSTTTTTT-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/files\/2023\/05\/LASSTTTTTT-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/files\/2023\/05\/LASSTTTTTT-768x1188.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/files\/2023\/05\/LASSTTTTTT-993x1536.jpg 993w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/files\/2023\/05\/LASSTTTTTT.jpg 1170w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 662px) 100vw, 662px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">My observation of the pretty flowering tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I had a very good experience using iNaturalist. I think it is very easy to use and it was fairly easy to join the TA group. I love using iNaturalist on my own time to identify plant or animal species that I think are cool. Unfortunately, for the bioblitz, I didn&#8217;t have a lot of time to get outside and observe many species because our watershed project was due, and I had to work on it. I may not have observed many species in the four days of the challenge, but I like to observe a lot of species on my own time using the app.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found it very interesting that some cities that I perceive as very industrial with not a lot of nature were being ranked so high on the leaderboard. For example, New York is a very urban area and I always think of it not having a large or diverse population of plants or animals. However, they were ranked quite high (in hindsight, they have a lot of people, so this makes sense). The number of species observed in all of the cities, even Burlington, was also surprising to me. I guess I don&#8217;t really think of a city of having so many species within its border, but they do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the City Nature Challege was a fun way to interact with the environment and the species we have been living in for the past two semesters. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the four-day urban bioblitz, I chose to explore around campus. I thought it would be very interesting to see what kind of wildlife is around us every single day as we walk to and from classes. I found one tree outside the Aiken center that I had never noticed before, and due to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Haley","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/author\/haweed\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/haweed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}