iNaturalist 2023 Deep Dive Webinar

This is a record of the iNaturalist 2023 Year in Review Deep Dive, from December 14th, 2023.

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Chapters

00:00 - Introduction
05:02 - iNat Year in Review Deep Dive
21:30 - Cat Chang's Personal Year in Review
37:28 - Questions
51:52 - Wrap-up

[aasimmons]

This was so amazing! iNaturalist changed the trajectory of my life. It provided me a whole new way to study and interact with the environment. It led to me getting a 2nd degree in biology and focusing on biodiversity after retirement from the military. Thank you to your amazing team!

[GeoffReidNZ]

Thank you! I love iNat. It's the BEST!!

[randimarie]

I'm proud to be a part of this platform! 🌿💚🌿

[MatthewMuir]

I love iNat's Year in Review feature! The most faved and commented-on observations are such an amazing collection of learning, cool pics, and spectacular lifeforms.

[joemdo_southflorida]

Popped in live but couldn't give it my full attention so I'm very happy to be able to watch it more carefully now!

[gauravsoman]

I have been using iNaturalist for almost 4 years now and it's fascinating to see how the user community has grown especially over this year. It was wonderful to hear about the latest updates and future ideas from the team. Thank you so much!!

[PaziDil]

The place changed my life. Thanks iNaturalist for everything!💚

[jamessteamerslifeadventure]

I have been studying, collecting and observing species of life for nearly 60 years and want to say that inaturalist is extremely helpful in cataloging and identifying species. Biodiversity is fascinating.

[BarrieMatthews-pm]

Right. Spread the word, make observations, identify, donate.

[KeystrokePOSSoftware]

I get a daily email containing a link to a list of reports for just rattlesnakes in the county in which I live. Love it!

[bhardwajdk]

I have been studying, collecting and observing species of desert and semi desert of Rajasthan, India life for nearly 40 years and want to say that inaturalist is extremely helpful in cataloging and identifying species. Biodiversity is fascinating.
Regards Devendra

[lesliemcconachie]

Thanks for this and for the great work!!

[edrooks]

INaturalist creators have empowered me to learn and share about the diversity and behaviors of life, not just of the popular species, but more importantly the species ignored by most people.

[bluebowser]

I'd like to request iNaturalist to upload clear tutorials of how to use various features on their website. I am not a tech savvy person, but decided to make my first ever place recently. I found the process very technical and confusing, I also struggled to find information on the process. I had to visit various scattered forum posts, some of which were out of date. An example is that once I made the place, I followed a users old advice and waited days for the "species" tab to update automatically... After 4 days I later read on a different forum post that there was a glitch where it never updates anymore? So I had to make the list myself. When making the list I didn't understand all the features and options very well. I did manage to make a list, but I'm not entirely sure if it has been done correctly.

I think it would be very helpful to have a professional tutorial on the iNaturalist youtube channel. Something people can go to and watch that is clear. Word of mouth on the iNaturalist forums isn't a very nice way to try and learn, I'd much rather learn from iNaturalist itself.

[janpugsley]

13:57 greetings from the Beautiful Bruce Peminsula, the traditional territory of the Saugeen Ojibway Nationdeep in the heart of Turtle Island. Some of you may know this land as Canada.🎉🎉

[francisgolden]

iNaturalist is such a powerful tool for me. I have learned so much about the living organisms in my area (Gold Butte National Monument, NV) . For me, it started out as a way to lean the names of the different plants. But then it has grown to seeing the living community as a whole. I look for structural characteristics and try to imagine how those characteristics help organisms survive. I think more about strategies the organisms use to perpetuate their species. The more I learn, the more I can share with the visitors to our area. Additionally, I feel humbled that my contributions may someday help further the body of scientific knowledge and promote our efforts at conservation. Thank you so much!!!!

[snowyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

hi! for accessibility, could you add subtitles to this video?

[musaumar]

Excellent but I want iNaturalist call stakeholders to fucus on Africa more especially in Nigeria were ongoing mass deforestation continues to affect biodiversity and Conservation hunting for bushmeat and other illegal activities

[JanAinali]

2:11 "translated into thousands of languages" seems a lot! Should it have been hundreds?

[martinc]

iNat is awesome - but not enough people looking at fish...come on people!