AT24-024 Webinar SAAS: City Nature Challenge & iNaturalist,

Webinar Title: SAAS: City Nature Challenge & iNaturalist

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Comments: AT24-024 Webinar SAAS: City Nature Challenge & iNaturalist, Presenter: Peter Joseph Hernandez (AT=1h)

Webinar Date: 1/04/2024
Webinar Time: 7:00p-8:00p

Webinar Summary:
The San Antonio Metro Area has been part of the City Challenge since 2018. In Texas, it is organized by TWPD’s Texas Nature Tracker team. 15 Texas cities participated in the 2023 Nature Challenge; up to 17 are expected to participate in 2024 (April 26 – 29)!

Webinar Description:
The City Nature Challenge (CNC) started in 2016 as a competition between San Francisco and Los Angeles. It has grown into an international event, motivating people around the world to find and document wildlife in and around their cities, using biodiversity recording apps and platforms like iNaturalist.

Run by the Community Science teams at the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, the CNC is an annual four-day global urban bioblitz at the end of April, where cities are in a collaboration-meets-friendly-competition to see not only what can be accomplished when we all work toward a common goal, but also which city can gather the most observations of nature, find the most species, and engage the most people in the event.

In 2023, 482 cities participated, with more than 66,000 people making 1.9 million observations of nature in the four days of the challenge. CNC SA Metro history results can be found @ https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgmail.us5.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3Dceeccde80bf20191e8e25a3e7%26id%3Dd60675acb6%26e%3D5fa47e271e&data=05%7C02%7Cadvancedtraining%40hillcountrytmn.org%7C1c639324ff8e48600de008dc089d5630%7C0f4fa6ee65fe4c9f959266bb6a335ab2%7C0%7C0%7C638394719076702757%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=S7h8QLXpfp%2B9eOuEbMX17Jen6endgiNqbWSReDXZkXo%3D&reserved=0

About Peter Joseph Hernandez
Since 2016, Peter has worked with the San Antonio River Authority River Warriors on the San Antonio River doing nature docent walks along the river and more. Peter enjoys discovering nature and learning about flora and fauna life cycles and how all is intertwined on our mothership called Earth.

Peter is an Alamo Area Master Naturalist and was Vice President of the chapter in 2021/2022. He is also a member of the Native Plant Society of Texas San Antonio Chapter and was Secretary in 2021. Peter is also involved with the Guadalupe County Master Gardeners where his focus is as an Earth Kind Specialist and a member of the Audubon Society. Since 2022, Peter has been Co-Coordinator for the San Antonio Metro Area (12 Counties) City Nature Challenge. Additionally, Peter is a member of the State of Texas Alliance of Recycling Master Compost Program which uses all first-level decomposers to break down organic waste of kitchen scraps and yard waste.

Peter had a 33-year career in the telecommunication world as an Industrial Engineer and retired as Senior Technical Director. He is now just grounding back to Mother Earth. Peter lives in Wilson County and is a garden steward of Prospect Forest, a 6-acre Private Natural Area. Peter is also a novice photographer and is pushing to get better.

Cost: no charge

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Presenters:
Peter Joseph Hernandez

Contact Information:
[email protected]

Organization Website:
https://www.saaudubon.org/

Sponsoring Organization:
San Antonio Audubon Society