by Amy Howard | Jun 19, 2025 | How To, Learn, Paradigm
When I downloaded my list of plants and animals from GBIF, they came in with scientific names and no pictures. I couldn’t tell you what most of those species were, even if you told me their common name. I had to learn them all. I wanted to display temporary...
by Amy Howard | Jun 19, 2025 | How To, Paradigm
When I downloaded my species list from GBIF, I received a gobbledygook list of scientific names. I might have been able to spot one familiar name, carreta carreta. The rest was Greek. Or Latin. Or Biologican. Enter iNaturalist, the Facebook of the nature world. Each...
by Amy Howard | Jun 9, 2025 | Learn, Paradigm
When I built the Nature section of Paperless Ponte Vedra, I looked to GBIF for a list of reported nature sightings. As of this writing, the GBIF aggregator had logged 3,117,737,422 individual reports of nature sightings around the globe. Is that billions? Thankfully,...
by Amy Howard | Jun 8, 2025 | Paradigm
I have gathered species lists from FWC, GTM, and iNaturalist. Every time I think I’ve found the MASTER list, I find another source of sightings that wasn’t included in the others. At this point, I believe the closest we have to a master list is the Global...
by Amy Howard | Jun 8, 2025 | Paradigm
I used GBIF to generate my starting list of plants and animals that have been reported in Ponte Vedra and Ponte Vedra Beach. However, I disagreed with the official boundary as pertains to nature. It was missing a huge wedge directly across the river from my station at...
