Author: Kelly L. O'Donnell

I am the Director of Science Forward. My interests are botany, ecology, evolution, and Star Trek.

2024 Van Cortlandt Park BioBlitz Data

Last Updated: October 22, 2024 – Updated compiled dataset file posted. Spelling corrections and new species added. See file for full details.  Prior Updates: October 1, 2024 –…

Jacqueline Liang

Jacqueline Liang is currently a researcher at the American Museum of Natural History, working in the cultural halls. In her free time, she is a wildlife photographer with…

Molly Rouzie

Molly Nash Rouzie leads plant walks for Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery and is currently teaching botany at NYBG’s School of Professional Horticulture. Molly is also a council member of…

Zeke King Phillips

Zeke King Phillips is a PhD Candidate in Geosciences at the University of Cincinnati where he studies the dietary habits of terrestrial land snails. He can most often…

Theodore Muth

My lab focuses on the study of urban microbial communities, and we have lead a national initiative to provide research experiences for undergraduate students in exploring complex microbiomes…

Nickolas Dubin

Nickolas Dubin is a Queens-native Naturalist and Queens College Masters Student, with a background in Geology. He teaches both ecology and geology labs at Queens College, and specializes…

Eli Denzer

I’m Eli, I work on the lichens of the Appalachian Mountains at the New York Botanical Garden.

Chris Kreussling

Chris Kreussling (Flatbush Gardener) is an urban naturalist and avid iNaturalist user (@xris) based in Brooklyn. Aside from their habitat garden, their “local patch” is Prospect Park.

2023 Prospect Park BioBlitz Data

Last Updated: October 3, 2023 – corrections to some entries, one new species added! Prior Updates: September 30, 2023 – initial data file posted Here is the current…

Olga Calderón

Olga Calderón is a professor of Biology and Microbiology at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). She received her Ph.D. from the CUNY Graduate School and University Center in Science…

Christian Liriano

Christian Liriano is a student at CUNY and a freelance field biologist. His research interests are the habitat ecology/taxonomy of understudied organisms from northeastern North America (e.g., spiders,…

Zihao Wang

Zihao Wang is a botanist affiliated with NYC Parks. Zihao says, “As an immigrant to the U.S., observing local nature and identifying plants is my way of making…

2022 Randall’s Island BioBlitz Data

Last updated: October 5, 2022 Here is the current species and observation lists for the 2022 Macaulay Honors College Randall’s Island Park BioBlitz: The first sheet in the…

iNaturalist Data Download Guide

Follow these instructions for downloading CSV files directly from iNaturalist.

2020 Remote BioBlitz Data

Here is the current (11/2/20) species and observation lists for the 2020 Macaulay Honors College Remote BioBlitz: 2020 Remote BioBlitz Data 11_2_20 . We are still at just…

2019 Green-Wood Cemetery Gowanus Canal BioBlitz Data

Here is the current species and observation lists for the 2019 Macaulay Honors College Green-Wood Cemetery Gowanus Canal BioBltiz: 2019 Green-Wood Gowanus BioBlitz Data 10_9_19.The first sheet is…

2018 Inwood Hill Park BioBlitz Data

UPDATED OCTOBER 24 2018 Here is the current species and observation list for the 2018 Macaulay Honors College Inwood Hill Park BioBltiz: 2018 Inwood Hill Park BioBlitz Data…

2017 Alley Pond Park BioBlitz Data

UPDATED NOVEMBER 22 2017 Here is the current species and observation list for the 2017 Macaulay Honors College Alley Pond Park BioBltiz: 2017 Alley Pond BioBlitz Data November2017 The first…

2016 Brooklyn Bridge Park BioBlitz Data

Update: These data are now current as of November 2017. We are still waiting for lab identification of a number of arthropod species. Microbial diversity analysis information can…

2015 Freshkills Park BioBlitz Data

These data are current as of 3/21/16. We are still waiting for lab identification of a number of arthropod species as well as the acoustical analysis of bat…

2014 NYBG BioBlitz Data

These data are current as of 8/01/2015. We are still waiting for lab identification of a number of arthropod species. These files will be updated as those data…