Hey – I'm Joss!

🚶🏽‍♂️ About me: 🚶🏽‍♂️

Currently I am doing my MSc in Biodiversity and Conservation based at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew. I have a BA in Geography from the University of Oxford.

I am an obsessed generalist documenting nature of all sorts wherever I go. Being that I've lived all my life in cities, I have a particular fascination with urban wildlife, and I hope to work in the field of urban wildlife conservation in the future. The question of how to conduct conservation in the novel urban ecosystem greatly interests me.

I am grateful beyond words to the iNat community for all identifications made on my observations, for answering my many questions, and for inspiring my obsession with the natural world. This website has genuinely changed my life.

You are welcome to reach out to me about anything – I am always happy to chat and check my notifications pretty continuously every single day.

🔎 Identifying: 🔎

I have some experience identifying the following groups so feel free to @ me on any related observations you'd like help with:

1. UK Poduromorpha springtails from in situ photos
2. UK Entomobryomorpha springtails from in situ photos
3. UK willowherbs (Epilobium)

📕 Useful links for identification: 📕

• My online ID resource master-index – a list where I collate all the various useful online identification resources I find
• My guide to UK littoral springtails
• My guide to 'striped and yellow-ish' UK springtails

🪲 Other interesting things: 🪲

• My personal observation standards – a general framework I try to follow to ensure my observations are high quality and can become useful data for science.
• Joss' uk firsts – A collection of all my observations which are/were the first for their respective species in the UK on iNaturalist.
• New records for Montenegro – First time records for species from my trip in August 2024, many of which are firsts not just on iNat but on GBIF more broadly.