Apps to Help you Explore

SEEK by iNaturalist This free smartphone app is designed for children and is used to identify wildlife, plants, and fungi using your phone’s camera. Children can earn badges for observing different types of species and participating in challenges. Apple format or Android phones.

iNaturalist – Connect with scientists around the world to help identify plants and animals in your community

eBird – Learn about birds in your backyard or find current birding hotspots with this comprehensive birding website and app, Sycamore Grove Park and Shadow Cliffs Regional Park

Globe Observer – Join an international network of community scientists to learn about our environment and the changing climate

Earth Challenge 2020 Join a citizen’s science initiative to collect valuable data using an app on your phone. The project focuses on air quality & plastics pollution.

Timelooper – Visit East Bay Regional Parks virtually

Phyphox – Access all the sensors on your smart phone to collect data and turn it into a mobile physics lab