00:14:58 Jakob Goldner WVDNR: I would love to learn how to upload large numbers of occurrences 00:16:15 Tara Littlefield-Kentucky Natural Heritage Program: https://natureserve01.sharepoint.com/communites/botany/SitePages/Community%20Home.aspx 00:17:59 Jamey McClinton: I have access... 00:18:49 Kathleen McCoy - Virginia Heritage: VA has access...for now :) 00:22:13 Misty Nelson (she/her): For those interested in iNaturalist, we have set up an "umbrella" project that connects to all of the Network projects (at least those we know of): https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/natureserve-network-umbrella-project 00:22:46 Peroline Lescot (QC CDC): Reacted to "For those interested..." with πŸ‘ 00:32:41 Gio Rapacciuolo (he/him/his): What about marine vertebrates other than fishes? 00:43:28 Cassandra Robillard (Ont NHIC - any pronouns): This is the first time I'm hearing about Conservation Sites in the context of Biotics. Can you explain what it is? (I may have missed it from a previous session.) 00:43:43 Jamey McClinton, NV Div. of Natural Heritage: Reacted to "This is the first ti..." with πŸ‘ 00:48:08 Jamey McClinton, NV Div. of Natural Heritage: I'd love to learn more about your strategy for keeping up with updating historic/older records with a small staff! 00:48:31 Diana Soteropoulos: Reacted to "I'd love to learn mo..." with πŸ‘ 00:53:18 Elizabeth Braatz (she/her/hers): How do you promote these iNatuarlist groups? 00:54:13 John Vanek: Have you found a way to successfully get location data for the automatically observed observations of rare species? Other than reaching out directly to each submitter, that is. 00:54:39 Kendall McDonald (she/her): Replying to "How do you promote t..." Hello Elizabeth! I work with Tara. We advertise the Inat projects in presentations, native plant society events, INat hikes, environmental education, word of mouth and social media! 00:54:56 Elizabeth Braatz (she/her/hers): Hi Kendall, thank you so much! This is marvelous! 00:55:28 Kendall McDonald (she/her): Replying to "Have you found a way..." Hello! I work with Tara. As far as I know, we have to reach out to the observers to get the accurate lat/longs of obscured observations 00:55:45 Kendall McDonald (she/her): Reacted to "Hi Kendall, thank yo..." with πŸ‘ 00:56:50 Vanessa Voelker: Hi John -- we have not yet figured out an efficient way to collect that location data for observations that are obscured at the taxon level! It's an ongoing problem as sometimes iNat users don't see the comments or direct messages we send them. 00:57:32 John Vanek: That's my problem as well, the non-responses. Still great data, just would like to get over this hurdle. Perhaps something NatureServe could work out with iNat? 00:58:08 Misty Nelson (she/her): We will be hosting a Network Topic Call in April about another iNaturalist Project, the Maryland Biodiversity Project, and they have developed some interesting approaches to getting access to the data. We'll also use that as an opportunity to re-engage a Network Community Science work group to be more coordinated around these types of questions! 00:58:29 Cassandra Robillard (Ont NHIC - any pronouns): Replying to "Have you found a way..." I'm not sure how it works for our project in Ontario, but as far as I understand it, our project curators have special permission to view detailed locality data for tracked species. But I just started, so I'm not the one to ask about the details. 00:58:40 Diana Soteropoulos: Replying to "Hi John -- we have n..." We have some great volunteers at AR NHP that I'm debating about training to contact iNat users for obscured coordinates. There are 550 rare plant observations with obscured geocoordinates. 00:59:44 Diana Soteropoulos: Replying to "Have you found a way..." Canada has a wonderful agreement with iNat to access rare observation data. We'd really like to get a similar system established for the US. 01:00:08 Misty Nelson (she/her): Replying to "Have you found a way..." Canada is different than the US in that there's a custom Canadian iNat "node" with central control and access to those data. 01:00:21 Cassandra Robillard (Ont NHIC - any pronouns): Reacted to "Canada is different ..." with 😯 01:00:23 Iain Crowell: Reacted to "Canada is different …" with 😯 01:00:24 Iain Crowell: Removed a 😯 reaction from "Canada is different …" 01:00:28 Kendall McDonald (she/her): For lichens, we found out that the Green Specklebelly Lichen (thought to be extirpated in Kentucky) is still in KY, thanks to a casual inat user! 01:01:26 Cassandra Robillard (Ont NHIC - any pronouns): Reacted to "For lichens, we foun..." with ❀️ 01:02:19 Jesse Miller (Washington): I know some of the people who run iNat. Perhaps I should drop them a line to see about accessing unobscured coordinates for heritage staff. 01:02:27 Kendall McDonald (she/her): Reacted to "I know some of the p..." with ❀️ 01:02:31 Jamey McClinton, NV Div. of Natural Heritage: Reacted to "I know some of the p..." with ❀️ 01:02:47 Vratika Chaudhary (she/her) (Vruh-thi-ka): Replying to "Have you found a way..." One rare thing where US has more data privacy regulations than another country 01:03:26 Misty Nelson (she/her): Replying to "I know some of the p..." We've tried in the past with only limited success, at least at the national level, but if you make some inroads, please let me know! 01:04:17 Jesse Miller (Washington): Replying to "I know some of the p..." OK! Who should I contact at NatureServe about this if they are interested? 01:04:18 Diana Soteropoulos: Replying to "I know some of the p..." I talked with one of them a couple years ago without success. I think it's best to have a group push perhaps from NatureServe. I've talked with Wes about our need, and we're interested in demonstrating how NHPs can benefit iNat and vice versa. 01:06:34 Misty Nelson (she/her): Replying to "I know some of the p..." @Jesse Miller (Washington) Please reach out to me and I can loop in others as needed. Can we follow up off-line, too? Might be good to fill you in on some of the history... 01:07:21 Jesse Miller (Washington): Replying to "I know some of the p..." Sounds good 01:08:08 Elizabeth Braatz (she/her/hers): This convo for iNaturalist coordinates is really interesting, thanks for mentioning this Jesse miller, we run a lot of community science projects here, if new inroads are made I'd be interested in hearing about them too! 01:08:56 Chris Doffitt: I would like to do more with iNat. I have set up a project for a small area, but would like to do a state wide project. 01:09:51 Edwin Guevara MD-DNR (he/him): Is there a way to record data without alerting poachers? 01:10:50 John Vanek: I'd be happy even if there was an official channel for registered and verified organizations to contact users to request more information about locations. That way we aren't relying on sending messages, often from our personal inat account. 01:11:23 Cassandra Robillard (Ont NHIC - any pronouns): Replying to "Is there a way to re..." You mean in iNat? Apart from obscuring localities? 01:12:28 Edwin Guevara MD-DNR (he/him): Replying to "Is there a way to re..." As far as work is concerned even obscuring the locality, if I reported a bog turtle on inat I would be in hot water, LOL 01:12:32 Kevin Burls, Xerces Society (he/him): I am not an expert but just as another 'strategy,' if you 1) create the right type of iNat project and then 2) the observer joins that project, even obscured coordinates are recorded unobscured in that project. It still requires direct permission from the observer in that sense but it is a way to collect unobscured coordinates as they come in 01:13:09 Diana Soteropoulos: Replying to "I am not an expert b..." iNat has tried to restrict the creation of this type of project. 01:14:25 Kevin Burls, Xerces Society (he/him): ^good to know! 01:14:38 John Vanek: That form would be amazing. 01:15:32 Elizabeth Braatz (she/her/hers): @Kevin yes that has been my experience as well! The trick is getting people to join your group correctly. 01:15:36 Vanessa Voelker: Creating projects where a user can opt-in and trust project creators with obscured coordinates can work if the observer has voluntarily obscured their own observations, but unfortunately observations of species that are obscured at the taxon level will still only display the "decoy" coordinates. 01:16:44 John Vanek: Those decoy cords are frustrating! I wonder how often they accidently get used in modeling when folks download inat data from GBIF. 01:16:48 Elizabeth Braatz (she/her/hers): Oohhh right, thanks Vanessa! 01:17:11 Vanessa Voelker: Super frustrating, I wonder about that too! 01:26:59 Kevin Stohlgren - MD NHP: Replying to "Is there a way to re..." There is no need to report data from our bog turtle surveys or other rare species surveys to citizen science databases like iNat. This data should be entered into biotics and/or other databases (there is a federal database for bog turtles). I do submit data for non-listed species to iNat all the time, however, as they are not tracked by our NHP. 01:27:56 Edwin Guevara MD-DNR (he/him): Replying to "Is there a way to re..." I figured. I was just wondering why others were reporting rare species of plants on inat in case it made trouble. 01:53:03 Katie Hietala-Henschell: Would you add specific references/citations in the comments section in the individual threats rows? 01:54:44 Katie Hietala-Henschell: got it, thanks 02:07:21 Tyler DeVos: For scope, I'd look at percent of population within average home range distance of a major road? 02:07:46 Virginia Greene - VDCR-NH: Sounds effective! 02:27:02 Iain Crowell (AC CDC): Yup! 02:28:07 Tania Homayoun: Ornithologist here! 02:28:30 Kevin Stohlgren - MD NHP: Herps, some birds and a little of everything else. 02:28:34 Owen Boyle, WI DNR (he/him): As a program coordinator I don't actually do anything. :) 02:28:49 Becky Roth: Reacted to "As a program coordin..." with πŸ˜‚ 02:28:55 Tyler DeVos - Florida Natural Areas Inventory: Herps!! 02:28:59 Peroline Lescot (QC CDC): Fishes 🐟 02:30:40 Virginia Greene - VDCR-NH: Reacted to "As a program coordin..." with πŸ˜‚ 02:30:46 Rachel Cook: Reacted to "As a program coordin..." with πŸ˜‚ 02:31:56 Kendall McDonald (she/her): ima a fun-gal too! nice to meet you Jesse 02:32:12 Tara Littlefield-Kentucky Natural Heritage Program: file:///C:/Users/tara.littlefield.EECPPC/Documents/OneDrive%20-%20Commonwealth%20of%20Kentucky/Core%20Methodology%20Training%202023/Core%20Heritage%20Methodology%20Training/eo_specs-habitat-based_plant_delimitation_guidance_may2020.pdf 02:32:27 Iain Crowell (AC CDC): LichensπŸ™Œ 02:32:32 Kendall McDonald (she/her): Reacted to "LichensπŸ™Œ" with ❀️ 02:33:24 Misty Nelson (she/her): https://www.natureserve.org/sites/default/files/eo_specs-habitat-based_plant_delimitation_guidance_may2020.pdf 02:54:46 Tyler DeVos - Florida Natural Areas Inventory: I have a question on a different topic for after this one. 03:02:07 Jesse Miller (Washington): Super cool Kendall 03:02:13 Kevin Burls, Xerces Society (he/him): very cool 03:10:16 Jesse Miller (Washington): Great facilitation Tara, I enjoyed the discussion format 03:21:39 Bruce Young (he/him/his): https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SCsTLepjG0K9FP_MYZcjqACJIYdJlc5NtSyM5-n3IIRUMkI4N0EzVDJFR1VTTVY4OEs0SUhLSllSMi4uto 03:22:31 Misty Nelson (she/her): https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=SCsTLepjG0K9FP_MYZcjqACJIYdJlc5NtSyM5-n3IIRUMkI4N0EzVDJFR1VTTVY4OEs0SUhLSllSMi4u 03:25:51 Cassandra Robillard (Ont NHIC - any pronouns): Thank you for the training! If we have questions and are worried about bothering the top person, any guidance for where to go when we want advice straight from the NS source? Aside from the extensive documentation, of course. 03:27:06 Elizabeth Braatz (she/her/hers) - WI NHC DNR: Did joining these mailing lists happen automatically when we created accounts? 03:30:50 Caroline Jezierski: when is the conference in Costa Rica? 03:32:01 Elizabeth Braatz (she/her/hers) - WI NHC DNR: Got it, thank you Misty! 03:32:43 Katie Hietala-Henschell: thank you! 03:32:45 Tyler DeVos - Florida Natural Areas Inventory: Thank you! 03:32:45 Cheyenne Moore (she/her) PA Natural Heritage Program: Thank you!! 03:32:47 Iain Crowell (AC CDC): Thanks! 03:32:48 Kendall McDonald (she/her): Thanks guys!!!!! 03:32:50 Chris Doffitt: THanks everyone! 03:32:50 Diana Soteropoulos: Thank you!! 03:32:51 Elizabeth Braatz (she/her/hers) - WI NHC DNR: Thank you!!! This was great! 03:32:52 Kathleen McCoy - Virginia Heritage: Thank you all! 03:32:52 Becky Roth: Thank you! 03:32:53 Tania Homayoun: Thanks! 03:32:53 Katie Cody: Thanks everyone! 03:32:56 Jesse Miller (Washington): Thank you! 03:32:56 Kevin Burls, Xerces Society (he/him): thank you! 03:32:57 Vanessa Voelker: Thank you!