Project Overview

Unified Butterfly Recorder

Unified Butterfly Recorder (UBR) is a Progressive Web Application data collection tool. UBR provides butterfly researchers and enthusiasts with a quick and efficient app to use in the field to efficiently record butterfly sighting data. UBR works alongside various survey protocols traditionally used by researchers and citizen scientists.

UBR was originally designed, built, and maintained by various groups of computer engineering and software engineering seniors as part of a senior design class at Iowa State University in collaboration with the Entomology staff at Reiman Gardens in Ames, Iowa. During the Fall semester of 2022, UBR was rearchitected by a new group of senior design students to be cross-platform- one application for both major platforms, Andriod and iOS.

The new UBR will be accessible from any major web browser with an internet connection and can be downloaded to mobile devices like any other application.

UBR collects user-entered butterfly sighting data and other helpful information such as weather, location, speed, and time. UBR comes standard with global/regional butterfly species lists, and users can build custom lists to track other things like trees, bees, or anything else.





Team Members

Anthony Mazzie

Research

Software Engineering Major

Timothy Ellis

Client Interaction

Software Engineering Major

Grace Wigen

Team Organization

Software Engineering Major

Zachary Wingert

Individual Component Design

Software Engineering Major

Lucas Onwuchekwa

Individual Component Design

Software Engineering Major

Jeremiah Marchesani

Testing

Software Engineering Major

Ryan McNally

Individual Component Design

Software Engineering Major





Weekly Reports

Report 6
Report 5
Report 4
Report 3
Report 2
Report 1

Spring Report 1
Spring Report 2
Spring Report 3
Spring Report 4
Spring Report 5




Design Documents

Fall - Final Design Document
Fall - Lightning Talk Slides PDF
Fall - Faculty Presentation Slides
Fall - Faculty Presentation PDF
Spring - Final Presentation Slides
Spring - Final Report