The report includes an introduction about Pacific newts biology, their diet and life cycle, and how to distinguish the two species found...

The first ever Gall Week event took place between 10/2-10/10/2021. As the project had only materialized two weeks earlier, it was...

Next time you're out for a walk in your neighborhood or on a hike in the Bay Area, try looking closely at some of the oaks, especially...

It's our fourth anniversary today - happy anniversary everyone! Our first BioBlitz was exactly four years ago on 8/19/2017, in Coyote...

In November 2017, Anne Parsons, a citizen scientist and Midpeninsula Regional Open Space trail patrol volunteer, noticed many dead newts...

Our team of volunteers surveys a 4 miles section of the Alma Bridge Rd once a week during the newt migration season, and twice a week during

In addition to newts, we also document many other roadkills. So far, we documented over 400 individuals of 70 different species. Most...

Two species of newts live on the hills around Lexington Reservoir: California Newt (Taricha torosa) and Rough-skinned Newt (Taricha...

To learn more about pacific newts and about our project: You can view all our data under our umbrella project A letter by the Center for...

The South Bay BioBlitzes iNaturalist project combines all the BioBlitzes we’ve done so far: 679 people have documented together over...

After the beginning of COVID pandemic and the shutdown of public events in Santa Clara County, we canceled the rest of our events for the...

We use iNaturalist to document our efforts. It's an invaluable tool for us. If you don't know what iNaturalist is, or if you are not sure...

Citizen science is often called community science, crowd science, crowd-sourced science, civic science, volunteer monitoring, or online...