The BioBlitz at Penang Hill 2017 has concluded, but you can still enjoy all the content from the BioBlitz with the JASON Argonauts Team and Dr. Meg Lowman. Photos, videos, blog posts and more are available below:
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BioBlitz Argonaut Updates on the Blog
- Discover Magazine: Surveying the Rainforest, Top to Bottom
- South China Morning Post: Penang Hill’s 2018 bid for UNESCO status boosted by findings of world’s first whole-forest biodiversity survey, also shared by The Star and Yahoo News
- Mongabay: New ‘ghost’ scorpion among several species recorded for the first time in Malaysian rainforest
- IFL Science: Trove of new species discovered in canopy-to-cave survey
- Seeker: This Scientist is Racing Extinction to Discover New Species of Arachnids, *including a special livestream by Seeker from the Academy (with close to 10,000 views)
- bioGraphic: The Rainforest Next Door
- EurekAlert: New species discovered in Malaysian rainforest during unprecedented, top-to-bottom survey, also shared by Phys.org, Science Daily, Science Newsline, Follow News, Environment Guru, and Brinkwire
- International Business Times, Singapore: From fluorescent scorpions to iridescent flies: Researchers discover new species in Malaysian rainforest
- Free Malaysia: New scorpion species discovered in Penang, also shared by The Malaysian Insight
- Free Malaysia: USM team to help list Penang Hill list as UNESCO reserve
- Clean Malaysia: Penang Hill is a Haven of Biodiversity
- The Jungle Diaries: The Bioblitz of Penang Hill, Malaysia
- The California Academy of Sciences:
- Expedition page on website
- Pre-trip press release: Academy scientists partner with Malaysian colleagues to pursue unprecedented top-to-bottom survey of ancient rainforest
- Post-trip press release: New species discovered in Malaysian rainforest during unprecedented, top-to-bottom survey
- Academy video: Expedition Malaysia: a top-to-bottom rainforest survey