Links to...information about discovering & monitoring life

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Kevin FitzPatrick is a professional photographer who volunteers to document ATBI searches for new life.

NPS photo.

Links about life in the Great Smoky Mountains:

• Discover Life in America
• Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
• Appalachian Highlands Learning Center at Purchase Knob
• Hands on the Land - online classrooms and nature databases
• University of Arkansas watermites page (Dr. Andrea Radwell)

National and global sources of information about the diversity of life:

• NPS Explore Nature
• NPS Inventory and Monitoring
• Views of the National Parks
• Great Backyard Bird Count
• Citizen Science Alliance
• Classroom Earth
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• Encyclopedia of Life

A few of many other websites about discovering life in national parks:

• Acadia National Park – Schoodic Education and Research Center
• Gateway NRA Bioblitz
• Big Thicket and the Thicket of Diversity
• Colorado Plateau parks ATBI
• Yellowstone National Park/Greater Yellowstone Science Learning Center Bioblitz
• Boston Harbor Islands National Seashore Biodiversity
  
• Santa Monica Mountains NRA (pdf)

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