Annually in July, the Linda Loring Nature Foundation holds a BioBlitz powered by iNaturalist to discover flora and fauna across Nantucket.

Friday, July 24 - Friday, August 7 2026

This year, we’re teaming up with BiodiversityWorks and the Martha’s Vineyard Atlas of Life for the first-ever inter-island BioBlitz, as Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard square off in a friendly competition!

With a growing history of BioBlitzing, the time is right for these two islands, famed for their biodiversity, to challenge each other for biodiversity bragging rights.

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Upcoming BioBlitz Programs

Program Calendar
Guided Nature Walk - Nantucket Inter-island BioBlitz
Aug 7
Guided Nature Walk - Nantucket Inter-island BioBlitz

Join Dr. Sarah Bois, Director of Research and Conservation, for a guided tour of LLNF property with a special focus on documenting the biodiversity of the LLNF property. Sarah will go over the use of iNaturalist to help identify and record what we see around the property. 

Rambles are free to attend and open to all!  

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

2026 BioBlitz Wrap-Up Party
Aug 7
2026 BioBlitz Wrap-Up Party

Join us here on the porch at Linda Loring Nature Foundation to celebrate the end of the 2026 Nantucket BioBlitz!

We’ll talk about the wide variety of species found on the island, look at leaderboards and see who our top observers are, meet with other BioBlitzers and celebrate the massive effort everyone has put in to make this year’s BioBlitz so special!

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Resources

LLNF Blog
Upping the Ante
Bioblitz
Upping the Ante
Bioblitz

It’s once again BioBlitz time on Nantucket! Mid-summer is the perfect time for a BioBlitz. It’s peak growing season, height of insects, the tail end of nesting season for many birds, decent weather for beachcombing, and there are lots of people on island to help us count them all!

Bioblitz
Current Nature: One Island, Countless Species: Nantucket BioBlitz 2025
Bioblitz
Current Nature: One Island, Countless Species: Nantucket BioBlitz 2025
Bioblitz

Is it possible to identify and collect data on thousands of animal and plant species across Nantucket? Are there even that many living organisms on the island? Where do they all exist?

Just a few hours participating in the Linda Loring Nature Foundation and The Nantucket Land and Water Council’s BioBlitz event at the Creeks, led by Dr. Sarah Bois (LLNF), enlightened me to the variety of living organisms that inhabit the island. This beach and salt marsh habitat held more diversity than I could have ever imagined!

Bioblitz
Current Nature: 2024 Nantucket BioBlitz – Making Nature Count
Bioblitz
Current Nature: 2024 Nantucket BioBlitz – Making Nature Count
Bioblitz

Dog vomit slime mold, harlequin bugs, ghost pipe, searobins, American coot, and hickory tussock moths. What do these things have in common? They were all seen on Nantucket during the 2024 BioBlitz!

The Nantucket BioBlitz just wrapped up it’s fourth year of cataloging every living thing on the island in July. In a two-week period (July 13th – July 26th), volunteers, conservation professionals, students, and other community members canvased the island taking photos of living things (or clues to something alive) and uploading those observations to the iNaturalist app.

Bioblitz

On-air Interviews

The Point is WCAI's award-winning public affairs program hosted by Mindy Todd, and Dr. Sarah Bois and Matt Pelikan, director of the Atlas of Life at BioDiversity Works were interviewed and talked all things BioBlitz and how you can participate!

LISTEN HERE

Nantucket BioBlitz 2025 Results

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