Introduce Yourself or Region

Hi all

Best wishes for a smashing GS Bioblitz - My name is Matt Nimbs and I specialise in marine invertebrates, I'm based in Coffs Harbour NSW (subtropical eastern Australia) so be prepared for a flood of records for some weird and wonderfuls from a very keen group of us.

Hey folks!

Well, I seem to have missed the boat on this thread! I'm a school teacher from the Coffs Harbour area, NSW, Australia and organiser for our local GSB region. Organising is not really my strong suit (this late post is evidence of that), as I much prefer being outside exploring, the more remote, the better!

My interests are fairly general, though I do really love my local rain forests as well as marine gastropods. On iNat I am @nicklambert . Here is a Moss Mantis just for fun! Looking forward to this year's event and I hope to have less sleep than last year! Good luck all!

Hi Tim, Exciting work you are doing. May you record many frog calls this year!

Hello everybody!

My name is Tim Wang, and I'll be one of the organisers for the Wet Tropics region of Australia! I'm actually a visitor here for the time being (Thanks to Sydney being in lockdown and all), but this will be my first time organising for GSB (Instead as just a participant under Thomas' wonderful Sydney GSB and CNC events last year), so nice to meet you all!

I'm someone that enjoys the power of citizen science, and currently trying to push many of the 240+ Aussie frog species (and other taxas of course) to Research Grade and have enough observations for the next iNat AI training (since even many of the common species up here don't even have enough observations for AI recognition). I'm keen to get out there and show everyone the biodiversity in this region :)

Hi Claudia,

I am on the organising committee for the Australian Citizen Science Association ACT and regions Chapter and we had a planning meeting last night. I talked about the GSB and was invited to ask you to presenta bout the GSB at the October 14th meeting. I am happy to work with you on this and I thought we might invite Michelle to talk about how the GSB go started. What do you think?

I think it's a good promotional opportunity for you and for GSB. Happy to chat, Libby

So excited to see what you find!

Hi, I'm Libby Hepburn and I work with my community in the far south coast of NSW. This area is temperate coastal. We have a biodiversity mapping project called the Atlas of Life, Coastal Wilderness and it's our 10 year birthday this month.

This is the first time we have joined GSB and we think it's a great idea to have a bioblitz in the southern hemisphere during our springtime.

A baby Koel being fed by its adopted parent a Red wattlebird. photo Leo Berzins

We have run 7 Bioblitzes over the last 10 years and we are really looking forward to this iNat approach and also making friends across the world.

This will be fun! and we need some fun this year!

Hi Jeymmy, we are lucky to have you on board! Personally, being from a temperate region, I am really looking forward to seeing all of the observations from these beautiful tropical places like Colombia and Fiji. Enjoy, not long to go now!

Hi everyone!

Really, I'm ashamed of my late presentation. I´m from Colombia and I´m excited for this now GBS 2021. Sure, it´ll be fun and amazing to knowledge many biodiversity of the southern hemisphere 😃

Its great to have you join Kevin! Fiji certainly has some spectacular biodiversity, and we are so pleased to have you all onboard.

Ni sa Bula from beautiful Fiji, where we are sadly still in lockdown from the Delta Variant. There is a nice Fiji iNaturalist community here, that is coming together to help with the 2021Great Southern Bioblitz. You can see the observations and photos on our iNaturalist page: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/fiji-nature

Our group includes folks from a number of conservation NGOs like Nature Fiji and BirdLife International, as well as folks from Government, the University of the South Pacific and Fiji National University, and a myriad of individuals who have been active in wildlife and marine studies and photography in Fiji and the island states of Southwest Pacific.

Fiji consists of some 300 islands and 540 islets scattered over about 3,000,000 square km, much of which is still underexplorered. The land area is 10% and the sea area is about 90%. The highest point is 1,324 metres on Mount Tomanivi on the big island of Viti Levu where the capital of Suva is also located, where most of us our based.

My name is Kevin, and I will be helping coordinate the Fiji folks for the 2021Great Southern Bioblitz. My partner and I have a global wildlife photography project called Bird Explorers, and you can see our iNaturalist work here: https://www.inaturalist.org/people/614054 A la gente que habla castellano y para as pessoas que falam português, podemos responder a algunas preguntas o comentarios/ podemos responder a algumas perguntas ou comentários. De même pour le français!

Vinaka vakalevu

Team Fiji

Hi!

I'm Claudia, the area organiser for Canberra, Australia.

I did a degree in ecology at the University of Queensland and I currently work as a public servant.

I'm particularly interested in insects and admin a project on rearing moths and butterflies from caterpillars!

I'm really looking forward to the Great Southern Bioblitz and the renewed life (and warmth!) spring will bring. I am excited to make more iNat friends and get to know you all. You can find me at @claudiarose on iNaturalist and @claudia_schipp on Twitter.

Tenha cuidado com a Larissa, ela fica muito animada quando está na Natureza

Olá a todas e todos! Meu nome é Larissa, sou brasileira, do interior de São Paulo, mas moro em Adelaide, Sul da Austrália, onde estou fazendo meu doutorado com ciência cidadã e vigilância de mosquitos. Sou bióloga e professora de ciências, apaixonada por educação e preservação ambiental. Me encanta trabalhar com ciência cidadã e saber que podemos tornar a ciência mais acessível, democrática e justa.

Foi um grande prazer organizar a GSB ano passado e conectar Austrália e América do Sul. Estou ansiosa pra ver nossa rede crescer ainda mais esse ano :)

Thanks for introducing yourself, Gordon. It sounds like your group does lots of important and great work, and we are pleased to have you onboard this year 😀

Hi Everyone. I'm the President of Lockyer Community Action, a strange name for a group that has been doing surveys of threatened (particularly koalas and Glossy Black-Cockatoos) wildlife and a lot of camera trapping. We also use outside funding and volunteers to run training programs in survey methods and the use of equipment such as wildlife cameras, GPS, compass etc.

I'm on iNaturalist as @clag and also part of @LCA_Inc. We are just gearing up to organise the GSB in the Lockyer Valley Region of SE Queensland. Sorry no photo to hand.

¡Hola Antonio!

Lo que realmente aprecio de estar involucrado en el GSB es que esto me ha permitido reunirme (al menos virtualmente) e intercambiar ideas con personas apasionadas de todo el hemisferio sur. Quienes están motivados por un interés en apoyarse mutuamente para desarrollar ideas y desarrollar capacidades.Me ha interesado mucho lo que ha estado haciendo en Perú con un grupo tan activo y atractivo que promueve la ciencia ciudadana y la comunicación en torno al aprendizaje basado en la naturaleza. El uso de iNaturalist en Perú también ha sido interesante y he aprendido bastante y espero aprender más.

¡Hola!

Mi nombre es Antonio W. Salas y soy de Lima, Perú.

He estudiado Biología y he seguido estudios de maestría y doctorado. He trabajado como consultor y como empleado para el gobierno, para empresas privadas y para ONGs.

Estoy impulsando el uso de iNaturalist en Perú promoviendo el desarrollo de proyectos, capacitando y colaborando con eventos nacionales e internacionales.

Disfruto mucho colaborar con el GSB porque la considero una iniciativa muy benéfica para mi país y para los peruanos.

Es grato poder conocerlos a través de las noticias que compartimos.

¡Saludos desde Perú!

https://www.facebook.com/NaturalistaPeru

Sure is! Gorgeous spot.

Hi there!

My name is Seamus Doherty.

I am also one of the co-founders and organisers for the GSB. My background is in biology/ecology and citizen science. I am currently undertaking my PhD on anthropocentric threats and ecological communities in the Australian Wet Tropics.

We are all looking forward to having even more people participate in #GSB21 this year, particularly in South America and Africa.

If you ever have any questions about GSB or our lovely website here, please feel free to message me at any time. Alternatively, you can follow me on Twitter or iNaturalist.

I look forward to meeting everyone in our first organisers meeting for the year next month. Until then~ Adiós.

G'day everyone! My name is Michelle Neil and I'm one of the original GSB organisers. I am based in Redland City, QLD, Australia. You may have seen me on Twitter or know me from my volunteer role with the Australian Citizen Science Association (ACSA). By day I am an analytical chemist and by night and on weekends I play sax in a big band, volunteer as a Scout leader, and do lots of citizen science and science communication for ACSA and GSB. I am really looking forward to seeing if we can break the 100,000 observations Southern Hemisphere-wide in 2021 and meeting everyone during our Coffee Breaks! I'll bring the hot chocolate lol.

Good morning, Waswala Brian Olewe here from Kenya. I am naturalist with a bias to wildlife and landscape ecology. I also double as a an environmental education policy maker in the African continent. As at present, I serve as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Forestry and Wildlife Management, Maasai Mara University. It's my pleasure being here.

Olá Gustavo, É fantástico ter a equipe do Biotiba de volta ao GSB!Estamos ansiosos para um evento colaborativo gratificante novamente este ano, e ver um pouco da incrível biodiversidade de Curitiba e Região Metropolitana.

Hello, my name is Gustavo Ribeiro, I study Environmental and Sanitary Engineering in UTFPR. Since 2020, I am part of CNC and GBS along with projet Biotiba´s team, that seeks to promote citizen science in Curitiba and Metropolitan Area. I wish you all a great event :)

🇧🇷 Olá, meu nome é Gustavo Ribeiro, sou estudante de Engenharia Ambiental e Sanitária pela UTFPR e um dos organizadores do evento em Curitiba e Região Metropolitana. Participo desde 2020 do CNC e da GBS junto com a equipe do projeto BioTiba, que busca promover a ciência cidadã na nossa sociedade. Desejo a todos um ótimo evento :)

🇪🇸 Hola, me llamo Gustavo Ribeiro, estudio Ingeniería Ambiental y Sanitaria en UTFPR. Desde 2020, soy parte del CNC y GBS junto a los membros del proyecto BioTiba, que busca promover la ciencia ciudadana en Curitiba y región Metropolitana. Deseo a todos un bueno evento :)

Hello everyone! I am Bianca from Brazil.

I am a birder (whenever I can) and I love walking in the woods. I work with science popularization and citizen science in the Amazon.

I am also one of the organizers of the Great Southern Bioblitz and I am really excited about the second year of the GSB! 😍

Hi Team, PossumPete here,

I work as an environmental educator on the Great Ocean Road and have found it effective and memorable for the students to have an alliterative nickname. I did also study possums and gliders for years, living nocturnally and climbing trees, so the name has a backstory 😎🐭 I coordinate the Surf Coast GSB project in Victoria, and write some of the blogs on the page.

I love using iNaturalist for collecting my observations of biodiversity. During 2020 and the lockdown, I started 'mothing' every night, and have now over 1,500 observations of hundreds of species from my home. I never dreamed there would be so much moth biodiversity available to be seen in the driveway.

It is fantastic to connect with passionate naturalists from around the world, and look at the observations they make of their local biodiverstiy. Also learning some words in other languages is genial.

Cheers!

PP

Hi everyone, I'm Thomas from Sydney in New South Wales. I'm a researcher at the University of New South Wales, and work a lot on citizen-science related research such as recording bushfire recovery (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/environment-recovery-project-australian-bushfires) and recording rare species (https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/first-known-photographs-of-living-specimens)

Hi everyone, I am Stephen from Adelaide in South Australia. I would like to welcome you all to the Great Southern Bioblitz! I am really excited to see what biodiversity is to be found this year! I have a history in Vector ecology (mosquitoes) and have also been working in citizen science engagement around Adelaide. I am also active in the Citizen Science Association -South Australian Branch and one of the founders of the GSB. You may have seen me on Twitter as I am fairly active

🇪🇸Hola a todos, soy Stephen de Adelaide en Australia del Sur. ¡Me gustaría darles la bienvenida a todos al Gran Bioblitz del Sur! ¡Estoy realmente emocionado de ver qué biodiversidad se encontrará este año! Tengo experiencia en ecología vectorial (mosquitos) y también he estado trabajando en la participación de la ciencia ciudadana en Adelaida. También soy uno de los fundadores de GSB

🇧🇷Olá a todos, sou Stephen, de Adelaide, no sul da Austrália. Eu gostaria de dar as boas-vindas a todos vocês no Great Southern Bioblitz! Estou muito animado para ver o que biodiversidade pode ser encontrada este ano! Tenho um histórico em ecologia de vetores (mosquitos) e também trabalho no engajamento da ciência cidadã em Adelaide. Também sou um dos fundadores do GSB. 😉Bianca!