Almost That Time!

It is 48 hours before the start of this identification marathon at 7 PM this Friday and I wanted to check in with you all. All 28 of us! It is wonderful so many people are willing to help out with this project – I hope you all have fun doing this.

So, are you all set? Are you excited? Are there enough snacks in the house? Are all the field guides piled near to hand? Maybe you should do the weekend chores and errands now? Especially because much (all?) of New England is supposed to get heavy snow on Friday?

Last weekend, I kept track of how the pile of Needs ID plant observations changed over the equivalent 48-hour period: the number of plant observation stuck at the species level was 273,916 to begin with, and 273,359 at the end, a decrease of 557 observations. Of course, more observations were being posted that weekend as well – I didn’t track those – so somewhat more than, say, 600 plant observations were IDed to Research Grade or Casual over the weekend. I bet we can do a lot more than 600 plant IDs this coming weekend. What’s your guess as to how the numbers will change with our efforts? Make a comment below with your guess! My guess is 1% of the observations at species level, or around 2,700. I’m aiming high!

Right at 7 PM on Friday, I’ll post the current numbers of plant observations in New England that need IDs as well as the subset of those that are at the species level. I’ll also give you the link to all the observations at species level, because that’s our focus for this marathon, but feel free to ID any plant observation. I’ll also post links to certain species that I think will be easy to clean up, so to speak.

If any of you have questions, let me know – leave a comment below or send me a private message.

Julkaistu helmikuu 23, 2022 11:33 IP. käyttäjältä lynnharper