<div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>Please see the event below. Is this ESA-wide event something folks want to participate in? Sounds like pretty straightforward like events at UCR.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Kurt<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Esbeiry Cordova-Ortiz</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:esbeiry@esa.org" target="_blank">esbeiry@esa.org</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, May 4, 2021 at 11:07 AM<br>Subject: Join SEEDS NATIONAL BIOBLITZ Competition!<br>To: <br></div><br><br>
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The ESA SEEDS Program is launching its first competitive National BioBlitz through iNaturalist to encourage interactions with nature while socially distancing. It will be held from<b> 5/6/2021 - 5/13/2021
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">We dare your local SEEDS chapter to participate and win… if it can.</span><u></u> <u></u><br>
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Please let me know if you have any questions, this can be a great escape for students at the end of the semester and during finals! </p>
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</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Kurt E. Anderson, Ph.D.<br>Associate Professor</div><div>Spieth 3380<br>Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology<br>University of California<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>USA<br><br>Phone: +1 (951) 827-2499<br>Email: <a href="mailto:kurt.anderson@ucr.edu" target="_blank">kurt.anderson@ucr.edu</a><br>Webpage: <a href="http://www.biology.ucr.edu/people/faculty/Anderson.html" target="_blank">http://eeob.ucr.edu/eeobdeptfaculty/anderson.html</a><br></div><div>Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/kurt_ecology" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/kurt_ecology</a></div><div>He/Him/His</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>