About this Project
Help us to locate invasive plant species by making geo-tagged observations and taking photos to alert us of the spread of habitat-destroying plants!
- Smart Phones. Individuals with GPS-enabled mobile phones can easily contribute to locating invasive species by making geo-tagged observations and taking photos to alert us of the spread of habitat-destroying plants. We have applications for the G1 and iPhone on our Phone Help page!
- Mobile Phones. Non GPS-enabled phones are also useful for capturing notes and photos (see Instructions: Email for sending SMS and MMS messages), and geolocation can be establshed later through our website (see Instructions: My Data & Photos) help page.
- Email & Web. Email us (with optional photo) with the plant name as the subject to: mobile@whatinvasive.com. Or, log in and go to the My Data page to create a new observation from your computer. Read more on our Instructions: email associations help page.
We are:
- The Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at the University of California, Los Angeles. We are developing freely available systems for enabling Citizen Science activities that preserve our natural environment and increase quality of life.
- Project team: Patrick Crutcher, Deborah Estrin, Eric Graham, Cameron Ketcham, Olmo Maldonado, Jeff Mascia, Keith Mayoral, Nicolai Munk Petersen, Sasank Reddy, and Eric Yuen.
- The Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The National Park Service is proud to be taking care of the national parks and helping Americans take care of their communities.
- Project team: Christy Brigham and Susan Teel.
Some of Our Other Projects:
- Biketastic! for documenting good routes and for collecting data to improve them.
- What's Bloomin for recording locations of blooming plants in your neighborhood.
- Garbage Watch Helping UCLA facilities figure out where recycle bins could be added and how we can reduce waste.
This work is funded by:
- A Jim Gray Seed grant from Microsoft Research.
- A recent extension to the NSF-funded FIND (grant #CNS-0627084) to CENS for collaborating with Project BudBurst.
- Support by National Science Foundation (award #0120778) to the CENS.
