Alley Survey of Metro Phoenix

We're surveying and cataloging the flora and fauna that live in the alleys of Metro Phoenix. By participating not only will you discover that our alleys are full of more life than you'd ever expect, but you'll also be helping our efforts to help determine the biodiversity of our urban areas. This is one of several citizen scientist projects that we are running through iNaturalist. iNaturalist is a citizen science project and online social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe. Observations may be added via the website or from a mobile application. The observations provide valuable open data to a variety of scientific research projects, museums, botanic gardens, parks, and other organizations. Users of iNaturalist have contributed over six million observations since its founding in 2008, and the project has been called "a standard-bearer for natural history mobile applications."