Eastern Golden Gate Park Bioblitz

Join fellow nature enthusiasts in Golden Gate Park on March 7 for a grassroots, smartphone-powered bioblitz!

Saturday, March 7 9 am - 1 pm

Join Academy staff and fellow nature enthusiasts in our backyard, Golden Gate Park, for a grassroots, smartphone-powered bioblitz to document every living species we can identify from the end of the panhandle to Crossover Drive!

We'll be bioblitzing around the California Academy of Sciences, up at Stow Lake and Strawberry Hill, in the oak woodlands, in the redwoods at the AIDS Memorial Grove, and everywhere in between.

The fun starts at 9 am at the back entrance of the Academy at 75 Nancy Pelosi Dr. We will blitz for three hours and then meet up around noon to go over our finds!

Register for the eastern Golden Gate Park bioblitz - it’s free!

What is a Bioblitz?

A Bio-Blitz is an intensive one-day study of biodiversity in a specific location, bringing scientists and volunteer citizen-scientists together. We’ll look for snails, birds, mammals, frogs, butterflies, other insects, spiders, trees, worms, flowers, and everything else we can find!

How to Participate

Bring your smartphone and/or a digital camera, your curiosity and tons of enthusiasm. We’ll rally some experts and folks who know the area. Together we’ll make some great discoveries and have a better understanding of what lives in Golden Gate Park!

People of all ages and skill levels are welcome! Bring your smartphone with iNaturalist installed. Bonus: camera, binoculars, and magnifying glasses. We’ll enter observations in iNaturalist and join together at the end to find out how many observations we made and how many species we found. Past blitzes in Oakland, San Francisco, and San Mateo have averaged 1000 observations and 200+ species each. Hooray!

Don't have an iNaturalist account yet? No problem! Download the app and create an account: iPhone, Android.