kelly_annec's Journal

After getting the reminder that the iNaturalist project is close to over, I started checking if I have enough research-grade observations. I found that I do have over twenty-five research-grade observations but that I only had six phyla. I then went through my observations and felt that I was missing some observations so I went through my photos on my phone and found some pictures I had forgotten to upload. I now need to lookup more phyla around my area and make a plan to get more research-grade observations of them over the weekend in my area.

This week, I figured out which observations I should put into my taxonomy table and got ready to finish the project. Other than that, there has not been much done. I have gone through all of my observations and then went to the species section in the observations. From there I inputted the restriction to only show research grade ones. Then I put them into their phylum group in a table on google docs. Other than that I started filling out the taxonomy table with a species from the phylum Chordata, a species from the phylum Arthropoda, and a species from the phylum Chlorophyta.

This week I ended up going to Wunderlich County Park in Woodside on both Friday and Saturday. On Friday my phone had started to bug out and I was only able to make about a dozen or so observations in the span of about an hour and a half when my phone was working. I then got my phone fixed and went back on on Saturday with some family and I was able to walk the all of Bear Gulch trail and half of the Alambique trail. The whole walk took about three and half hours due to all the observations I got but getting the observations really made me more aware of how much fungi is part of nature. Overall it was so much fun going around and take picture of fungi, animals, and plants. I definitely recommend this park for anybody who just wants to get out.