Welcome to the Florida Atlantic University Biosphere Project

The FAU Biosphere Project is a citizen science initiative that engages students, faculty, and the wider community in exploring the diverse biosphere around them to promote educational and cultural connections to the living environment.

Participants in the FAU Biosphere Project use iNaturalist to explore and document the plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, insects and other living organisms found on FAU campuses and in the surrounding urban environment. Many FAU students focus their work on the FAU Ecological Preserve, a small remnant of habitats found historically in the local ecosystem that included upland scrub, wet prairies, pine Flatwoods, and hardwood hammocks. By helping to monitor natural and urban habitats to understand how they are changing over time, the FAU Biosphere actively supports the conservation of native species and the sustainability of the local environment.