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Join staff from the UCSC Natural Reserves, Ken Norris Center for Natural History, the California Academy of Sciences, legions of enthusiastic UCSC students & alumni, and members of the Santa Cruz community as we come together for a full day exploring and documenting the incredible biodiversity on the UCSC campus and at Younger Lagoon Reserve.

A bioblitz is an intensive one-day study of biodiversity in a specific location, bringing scientists and volunteer citizen-scientists together. Together, we’ll look for snails, birds, mammals, frogs, butterflies, other insects, spiders, trees, worms, flowers, and everything else we can find! People of all ages and skill levels are welcome!

Encouraging your students to participate in bioblitzes with their families and friends is a great way to help them connect to your classroom units on ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation. Or, round up some chaperons and bring your entire class on a bioblitz field trip.

UCSC Bioblitz

Join staff from the UCSC Natural Reserves, Ken Norris Center for Natural History, the California Academy of Sciences, legions of enthusiastic UCSC students & alumni, and members of the Santa Cruz community as we come together for a full day exploring and documenting the UCSC campus's incredible biodiversity.

Choose from one of two shifts---morning (9 am-1 pm) or afternoon (2 pm- 6 pm)---or attend both!

We'll be using iNaturalist, a citizen science website and app, to photograph and geographically pinpoint our findings and will come back together at the end of each shift to upload our records, share stories, and help each other with identifications. We hope to grow our campus's species lists, but most importantly celebrate our fellow creatures and each other! Refreshments will be served at the end of each shift when we gather back together. Smartphones or tablets with the free iNaturalist app installed aren't required, but certainly bring them along if you have them.

Younger Lagoon Bioblitz

Join staff from the UCSC Natural Reserves, Ken Norris Center for Natural History, the California Academy of Sciences, legions of enthusiastic UCSC students & alumni, and members of the Santa Cruz community as we come together for a morning exploring and documenting Younger Lagoon Reserve's incredible biodiversity.

Younger Lagoon Reserve's wide variety of habitats and unique geophysical setting have resulted in a great number of species that call the reserve home. We'll be bioblitzing in the morning from 9 am-1 pm. We'll be using iNaturalist, a citizen science website and app, to photograph and geographically pinpoint our findings and will come back together at the end of the shift to upload our records, share stories, and help each other with identifications. We hope to grow our reserve's species lists, but most importantly celebrate our fellow creatures and each other! Refreshments will be served at the end of each shift when we gather back together. Smartphones or tablets with the free iNaturalist app installed aren't required, but certainly bring them along if you have them.

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