Join us as Citizen Scientist


Be part of a bold scientific project designed to repair a 138Ha micro-catchment of Box Ironbark forest.

Citizen Science expands the range of monitoring activities we can do within the Spring Plains Watershed Repair project. Your involvement helps us to understand what impact our work is having on ecosystems and enables us to refine this process.

The suite of volunteer management activities below help us understand the state of the ecosystem in its current form and ongoing monitoring will help us in understanding what impact our actions have over the years and decades to come.

The second purpose for this program is to increase community involvement with Citizen Science. People of all ages have an opportunity to participate in the program and the dates have been set to accommodate school holiday events. We also want to put Heathcote on the map for conservation, and the community's involvement is key to achieving this.

 

Spotlighting for nocturnal animals

Date: Regularly updated - follow link for current dates
Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote

Reptile surveys

Date: Wednesday 6th November 2024
Time: 7:30am
Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote

Nocturnal Invertebrate Surveys

Date: Wednesday 30th October 2024
Time: 8pm
Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote

Pollinator surveys

Date: TBA - follow link to get involved
Time: 9am
Location: Biolinks Alliance office, Tooborac

Identify animals in our camera traps

Join the citizen scientists using the australian museums DIGIVOL platform to identify and transcribe records from our baited camera trapping

Record field sightings or identify others records

We have more than 700 records for the site which need to be identified or validated

Nest box monitoring

Date: TBA - Feb/March 2025
Time: TBA
Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote

Kangaroo population survey

Dates: Easter period 2025
Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote

Swift parrot Search, Birdlife

Location: Spring Plains Nature Conservation Reserve, Heathcote