Hi all, How many times you have wished you knew what the birds are eating or where the bird is sitting and wring your hands for not knowing the name of the plants. Now there is an interactive app available similar to your bird apps to nail the plant. Recently, I was in Montana and was watching White-tailed Ptarmigan with zest tear the seeds out of several species of plants, at least one was an Epilobium species but would love to identify all the plants it was feeding from. This app is special for New England, which shares lots of plants with New York state. Cheers Meena
GoBotany: An app for identifying the more than 4000+ plants with simple keys By Dr. Elizabeth Farnsworth [cid:image010.jpg@01D0E700.9D12DDE0] Sept 9 2015, 2.30 to 3.30 pm. Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) Auditorium, Tower Road Ithaca NY Do you wonder how I am going to identify the plant I have seen from about 5000 species found in our area? Then this workshop/talk is for you. Imagine being able to easily identify plants and learn all about them using an innovative set of keys and search tool on your smart phone, tablet, or desktop computer. That is the vision of Go Botany: an award-winning, free, user-friendly, interactive web tool created by New England Wild Flower Society with funding from the National Science Foundation. Go Botany is the definitive on-line Flora of New England, covering more than 3,500 taxa, much of which we share with New York. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to use Go Botany's many features, including multiple-access keys, a clickable dichotomous key, teaching resources, and PlantShare -- a virtual community for plant enthusiasts. Do you have a plant you need to identify? Bring you picture for this workshop to get it identified! https://gobotany.newenglandwild.org/ Map showing BTI Auditorium and parking for people coming from outside the Cornell can pay at the meter per hour at Peterson or Vet School parking lots. [Vet school metered parking lot] [cid:image012.png@01D0E705.84B21360] [cid:image014.png@01D0E705.84B21360] [Peterson metered parking lot] [BTI] [cid:image020.jpg@01D0E700.9D12DDE0] Elizabeth Farnsworth, Ph.D. is Senior Research Ecologist with the New England Wild Flower Society, and a biologist, educator, and scientific illustrator. She is currently directing a project to develop the Society's first online courses for teaching botany. She co-directed a National Science Foundation-funded project to develop the award-winning Go Botany web application: a comprehensive guide to all of the plants of New England. She is co-author of the Connecticut River Boating Guide: Source to Sea and the Peterson Field Guide to Ferns of Northeastern North America. She has illustrated the Flora Novae Angliae (Yale University Press), A Field Guide to the Ants of New England (Yale University Press), The Nature of New Hampshire, and five other books on ferns, coastal ecology, climate change, statistics, and spiders. She is also Senior Editor of the botanical journal, Rhodora. She has served on the science faculties of Smith College, Hampshire College, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the University of Rhode Island, and the Conway School of Landscape Design. She is a Research Associate and former Bullard Fellow of the Harvard Forest. She has conducted biological research in many ecosystems around the world, with a focus on plant physiological and evolutionary responses to climate change and the conservation biology of rare plants. She holds a PhD from Harvard University in Biology, MSc from University of Vermont, and BA from Brown University. Hope to see some of you! Dr. Meena Haribal 409, Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) Ithaca NY 14853 USA Email: m...@cornell.edu<mailto:m...@cornell.edu> http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: http://tinyurl.com/kn6q2p4 Dragonfly book sample pages: http://www.haribal.org/140817samplebook.pdf -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
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