CNC stats and Leaderboards
The goals of the CNC in the Maritimes are simple – we wish to provide an opportunity for people of all ages and backgrounds to explore nature. A few may stay indoors, a few may explore their immediate neighbourhoods, and others may set out on adventures and cover many 10s/100s of kilometers during the 4 day event.
The CNC is not a typical bioblitz – it is a means to introduce citizen science to our communities and to promote the use of iNaturalist as a tool to share observations of wild plants and animals.
The third letter in CNC is ‘challenge’ and a few Maritimers plan to take this seriously – the friendly banter has started already between a few ‘iNatters’ that participated last year. Its recognize that fact that it is unlikely that our Canadian entries will be near the top of the global leaderboard but it will be interesting to follow changes in the Maritime and Canadian leader boards as the CNC progresses.
Last year HRM almost caught Chicago in the race to the top of the northern climate leaderboard. To view the 2019 stats click here.
The global CNC project page will include a leaderboard where we can see how well individual areas are faring during the 4 day event. We recommend following this page and if you see that we are falling behind in our stats then encourage your friends, neighbours, colleagues, strangers in the street to get out and participate! The stats tracked are the number of participants, the number of observations, and the number of species. Here is the link to the 2019 leaderboard (HRM had 7,646 observations so it doesn’t appear on the first page – you have to click view more!)
In any competition there will be a group of ‘normal’ participants and there will be a group of ‘super players’ (aka geeks/nerds/fanatics). You may hear a bit of banter amongst these iNat addicts as the date of the CNC approaches. You don’t have to join any group to join this group of competitors – you can silently simply get outdoors and start iNatting. Sneak up the leaderboard!
Remember that although observations do need to be recorded between April 24-27th there is a short grace period after the event to upload photos. And remember – just because it is dark doesn’t mean that you can’t find wildlife – look in your basement for spiders or listen outdoors for frogs.
There are leaderboards to climb. Records to set. People to beat.
Good luck to all!
List of umbrella projects with leaderboards to follow:
Global
Northern Climates
Canada
Maritimes
And of course remember to follow your own personal stats and contributions to local CNC projects.
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