PITTSGROVE TWP. — Join Citizens United to Protect the Maurice River & Its Tributaries, South Jersey Land & Water Trust, the AmeriCorps Watershed Ambassadors, and Parvin State Park staff for a BioBlitz.
The community science effort is scheduled for 9 a.m.-noon May 27 at Parvin State Park. Volunteers will be asked to help find and identify as many species as possible within a designated location. It’s a biological inventory of the organisms living in a certain place which generates useful data for science and conservation.
Participants will be divided into groups and head off in different directions within Parvin State Park to survey biotic groups: plants, fungi, insects, aquatic macroinvertebrates, birds, mammals, and reptiles and amphibians.
Prior to the BioBlitz, CU recommends downloading the iNaturalist or Seek app to identify organisms while in the field.
Registration is required. Visit events.r20.constantcontact.com/
register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ejpp7pose060dcfe&oseq=&c=&ch= Registrants are asked to indicate if they have expertise in one of the biotic groups and what their first or second choice would be for surveying.
