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Nature Photography and the iNaturalist App
Use your phone to be a citizen scientist
Monday, April 29
6:30pm - 8:00pm
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2019-04-29 18:30:00
2019-04-29 20:00:00
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Nature Photography and the iNaturalist App
Use your smartphone's camera and the iNaturalist app to record the nature in your own neighborhood and be a citizen scientist.
Main Library - Meeting Room 2AB
Main Library
Meeting Room 2ABUse your smartphone's camera and the iNaturalist app to record the nature in your own neighborhood and be a citizen scientist.
Photographer Joan Crookston teams up with librarian (and nature lover) Michele McNeal to teach you how to maximize your phone’s camera and the nature-identifying app iNaturalist. Get ready to participate in the City Nature Challenge and the Akron-Summit County Public Library’s fall Bioblitz, or just learn for fun.
AGE GROUP: | Tween | Teen | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Science | Nature & Outdoors |
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