New to Vital Signs?
So you're eager to contribute your own species observations to Vital Signs? Great. Here's how to get right out there looking for species. If you are a teacher working with teams of students, your route is slightly different, just as fun, and starts at VS in classrooms.
Ready to enter your data?
You've just had a wild sampling adventure knee-deep in the marsh, swatting mosquitoes in the forest, tipping over in your kayak, slipping on Ascophyllum and are ready to move your observations from trampled, soil-stained datasheet to the web. Get to it. Register or log in to put your data on the web! We want to see what you found (or didn't find), and learn from your experience.
Something holding you back?
If you wait until you know everything you could possibly know about Vital Signs or invasive species or habitats or field work, there’s a very good chance that you will never ever collect any data. So just get started, expect to mess up, expect to want to do things differently next time, and learn and improve as you go! Check out our Top Ten Species Observations to get a flavor for the data you'll collect and share.
Thank you
Thank you for being brave, for looking closely, for adding observations, for sharing your time and energy with the Vital Signs community. We hope to see your species and habitat data on the map and in the database soon.
