Point Molate Intertidal Bioblitz for California Biodiversity Day

2092 Stenmark Drive,Richmond CA 94801

07 September, 2021

Description

Early morning intertidal Bioblitz at Pt. Molate for World Diversity Day! Join the California Academy of Sciences and Wholly H2O for an intertidal bioblitz at Point Molate Beach Park to celebrate California Biodiversity Day! September 7 of each year is CA Biodiversity Day, a day to celebrate our state’s unique biodiversity and encourage actions to protect it. Interested in exploring some eelgrass? Browsing the beach wrack? Searching for seaweed? Cavorting with crabs? Observing some oysters? Looking for limpets? Sticking your toes in the tide? Come to the Point Molate Beach intertidal bioblitz! It's an early morning so we can catch the low tide before work and school starts! Meet us at the Point Molate Beach Park parking lot at 6:30 am, with the iNaturalist app already downloaded to your phone & an account made. We'll do a quick (socially distanced!) introduction, then head down to the beach to start bioblitzing. To keep COVID-safe, we'll spread out along the beach – there's plenty of space! Documenting what's washed up on the beach, checking out what's living on the rocky points, combing through eelgrass to look for all the critters that use it as habitat – you'll have the chance to do what interests you the most! We definitely recommend wearing shoes that you don't mind getting wet, just in case. If 6:30am is a little too early for you, feel free to show up when you can & join in. Also feel free to leave when you need to! We'll likely be bioblitzing for 2-3 hours, but will keep this bioblitz project open for the full day if you feel like exploring Point Molate later in the day. Our results will appear here: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/point-molate-beach-intertidal-bioblitz See the 614 species already observed at Point Molate: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/point-molate-observations Wholly H2O catalyzes dynamic, informed connections between people and their watersheds that yield proactive and appropriate water management through conservation and reuse. Our watershed-positive educational programs engage Californians in community and citizen science, art, and green infrastructure education.