Scott Loarie & Ken-ichi Ueda, enabling real-time biodiversity data collection - Heinz Awardees

Scott Loarie, Ph.D., and Ken-ichi Ueda, co-developers of iNaturalist, received the 29th Heinz Award for the Environment in 2024. iNaturalist is considered the largest citizen science project in the world and makes it possible for millions of novice naturalists, researchers and conservation biologists to record and map nature observations across the planet through open-source technological platforms designed to connect everyday people to nature while scaling biodiversity monitoring and stewardship.