Sighting Report Form

Please fill in all entries then click the Send Report button below. Your attention to detail in the Location section will help in maintaining a high level of precision when registering this observation. Further details and descriptions regarding this report can be included within the Comments entry area.

Are you a natural resource professional with multiple observations to submit? Please email a NAS staff member for assistance.

Please do not fill in any special characters such as the degree signs (characters that are allowed are ;',.:())

What are you reporting?

Type:	Please select the type of sighting.
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Genus:	(if known)Input has invalid characters
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Number Observed:

When was it found?

Date of the Observation (MM/DD/YYYY):

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Where was the observation made?

State:
County:

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Longitude:		-or-	° ´ "

If you are typing the coordinates, please use the button below to verify that they are correct. If you are using the map to find coordinates, please zoom in as much as possible to ensure accuracy.

Actual LOCATION where the observation occurred (please be specific):
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Who made the observation? (we may need to contact you)

Name:
Email:	(This will allow us to contact you if we have questions.)
Telephone Number:
Address:

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Additional Comments

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Upload Image of Sighting (size should not exceed 1MB):

Images must be .jpeg, .jpg, .png, or .heic to be uploaded. Any other files will not be uploaded.

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COPYRIGHT, PUBLIC DOMAIN and INFRINGEMENT Agreement
In connection with submitting to the U.S. Geological Survey the text, image(s), audios, videos, and/or audio-videos identified in the specified list, I, the provider, aver that they were either created in my capacity as a Federal Government employee and are therefore in the U.S. public domain or they were created by me alone in my private capacity and automatically qualify for a U.S. copyright. If a U.S. copyright presently applies to any item listed above, I agree to irrevocably dedicate that or those copyrights to the public domain. As a result, the USGS, or anyone else, may freely publish, reproduce, use and/or distribute these creations in any media at no cost and without temporal or geographic restriction. If the USGS uses any of these creations in its products or services, it agrees to credit the provider. I, the provider, understand that if the foregoing representations concerning copyright ownership are determined to be incorrect or false, resulting in the USGS or the U.S. Government being sued for copyright infringement, I agree to indemnify the USGS and/or the U.S. Government for any resulting out-of-pocket expenses arising from defending and/or settling such litigation.

Uploaded photos will be displayed with the specimen record you are reporting. These photos may also be used in presentations or other products.
By uploading your photos, you are agreeing to these uses.

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OMB Control Number: 1028-0098
Expiration Date: 05/31/2026

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement

This information collection is authorized by the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 4701) [Nov 29, 1990]. Your responses are voluntary and need only be submitted once per sighting report. We estimate that it will take approximately 3 minutes to prepare and submit the response. We ask you for some basic organizational and contact information to contact you for clarification, if needed.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501), an agency may not conduct or sponsor and a person is not required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget control number. OMB has reviewed and approved this information collection and assigned OMB Control Number 1028-0098. You may submit comments on any aspect of this information collection, including the accuracy of the estimated burden hours and suggestions to reduce this burden. Send your comments to: Information Collections Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr., Reston, VA 20192 or to gs-info_collections@usgs.gov.

Privacy Act Statement

Authority: Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control Act of 1990 (16 U.S.C. 4701) [Nov 29, 1990]

System of Records: Computer Registration System (Interior/USGS-18) published at 74 FR 23430 [May 19, 2009].

Principal purpose: The principal purpose for collecting this information is to track nonindigenous aquatic species in the U.S. We estimate it will take 3 minutes to complete the observation form.

Routine use: This information will be used by the U.S. Geological Survey to monitor and provide information concerning the status, distribution, and potential impacts of nonnative aquatic organisms.

Disclosure is voluntary: You are not required to provide your personal contact information in order to submit a sighting. However, if you do not provide contact information, we may be unable to contact you for additional information to confirm and verify your sighting.