RSS Feeds

If you're interested in keeping up to date with what is being reported in GLRI-WHER, users can follow the feeds available or subscribe to daily email notices of events and animals being reported in GLRI-WHER.

See the Feeds page on this blog to learn more about the feeds offered. 

Want to know more information about the information you're seeing?  Here are the descriptions of each piece of information in the feed.

Events feed:

Sampling Event ID:  This is the GLRI-WHER system's own unique identifier given to the event record.

State/Admin Unit (e.g. US State or Canadian Province): The state or the administrative unit where the event was reported to be located

Country: The country where the event was reported to be located

US County: The US County (if applicable) where the event was reported to be located

Latitude, Longitude:  Depending on the type of event (single point observation, pre-defined route, or a route you create), the latitude and longitude will display the either the exact location where the event was reported, or the starting point for events reported along routes.

Zebra mussels present on shore:  If the user marks the checkbox which says they observed zebra mussels on shore, the feed would display this comment.

Quagga mussels present on shore:  If the user marks the checkbox which says they observed quagga mussels on shore, the feed would display this comment.

Cladophora present on shore:  If the user marks the checkbox which says they observed cladophora on the beach/shore, this comment would display.

Chara present: If the user marks the checkbox which says they observed chara on the beach/shore, this comment would display.

Recent Storm event:  If the user marks the checkbox which says they observed recent storm events in the area, this comment would display.

Group:  If the user belongs to a volunteer group and this data was reported as collected for that group, this field would indicate the originating group.

Information specific to the Animals observed feed:

Species:  The indicated species information will be included.

Total # Involved:  If available, the total number of animals observed of the species indicated

Total Sick/Injured:  If available, the total number of animals injured/sick of this species

Is Sick/Injured an estimate?  If the user checks a checkbox indicating their number for injured/sick is an estimate, this would say so.

Total Dead: If available, the total number of dead animals of the species indicated

Is Dead an estimate?  If the user checks a checkbox indicating their number for dead is an estimate, this would say so.