Recent Media Reports

Plant and Animal Changes Indicate Climate Change, by Jim Becker, KOLD News 13, Tucson, AZ, October 2, 2009.

Notebook and Satellite, by Jane Beitler, NASA Earth Science Data and Services, October 1, 2009.

UA Hosts Conference on Timing of Biological Events, by Mari N. Jensen, UA News, Tucson, AZ, September 30, 2009.

Pacific Geese Skip Migration to Winter in Warming Alaska, Environmental News Service, September 10, 2009.

NASA: Feeling the Sting of Climate Change, NASAexplorer, August 25, 2009.

Using Honeybees to Track Climate Change, by Beth Lebwohl. EarthSky, June 29, 2009.

Climate Changing? Uncle Sam wants your observations, by Lauren Morello. The New York Times, June 23, 2009.

Climate change poses threat to synchrony of shrimp and its food, by Henry Fountain. The New York Times, May 18, 2009.

Is global warming turning lilacs into earlier bloomers?, by Bill McAuliffe. Star Tribune, Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN, May 17, 2009. 

Backyard scientists use Web to catalog species, aid research, by John D. Sutter. CNN.com, May 4, 2009. 

Volunteers busy as bees counting population, by Jane Kay. San Fransisco Chronicle, April 24, 2009.

Warming Walden, by Jack Penland, ScienCentral.com, April 16, 2009.

Citizen scientists help track climate change, by Kristin Espeland. WFPL News, April 6, 2009.

Signs of spring are emerging earlier, by Valerie Sudol (The Star-Ledger). nj.com, April 1, 2009.

Weather, climate and blossom bloom dates, by Ann Posegate. The Washington Post, March 31, 2009.

State of the Birds (PDF version), Editorial. The New York Times, March 31, 2009.

Local citizens to help catalog climate change, by Pete Grathoff. Kansas City Star, March 27, 2009.

Ample evidence Florida's feeling effects of climate change, by Georgia Tasker. MiamiHerald.com, March 27, 2009.

With temperatures rising, here comes 'global weirding', by John Waldman. Yale Environment 360, March 19, 2009.

Ice out on Walden Pond tracks spring changes, by Mish Michaels. WBZtv.com, Boston, MA, March 18, 2009.

Climate researchers seek citizen scientists, by Sandi Doughton. Seattle Times, March 11, 2009.

Citizen-scientists sought for climate study, by Yvette C. Hammett. Tampa Bay Online, March 9, 2009.

Keeping an eye on climate change, by Vickie Chachere. USF News, March 6, 2009.

Taking the Pulse of the Planet, by Jeff Harrison. UANews.org, University of Arizona, March 3, 2009.

Climate change may be changing where Arizona plants bloom. The Associated Press, February 23, 2009.

Climate change may be altering Arizona plant bloom, by Tony Davis. Sierra Vista Herald, February 23, 2009.

Persistent hiker discovers plants blooming at higher elevations than ever before, by Tony Davis. Arizona Daily Star, February 15, 2009.

Arizona hiker tracks climate change, by Michelle Nijihuis. High Country News blog, February 10, 2009.

Global warming's pitch: Go North, young bird, by Pete Spotts. Christian Science Monitor, February 10, 2009.

Plants take a hike as temperatures rise. ScienceMode, February 10, 2009.

Your photos can help scientists track climate change effects, by Yvette Hammett. Tampa Tribune, February 10, 2009.

Global warming changing birds' habits, by The Associated Press. msnbc.com, February 9, 2009.

Citizen scientists' notes document affects of climate change, by Les Blumenthal (McClatchy Newspapers). Kansas City Star, February 8, 2009.

Unusual rainfall affects lifecycle of predatory wasps, releasing constraints on caterpillars that devour crops, West Africa, by Lydia Polgreen. The New York Times, February 5, 2009.

Study calls on 'citizen scientists' to tap their inner Thoreau, by Adrian Higgins. washingtonpost.com, January 29, 2009.

Citizens sought to gather data on science of nature, by Tom Beal. Arizona Daily Star, January 25, 2009.

Climate shift marches on, by Robert Mitchum. Chicago Tribune, January 22, 2009.

Spring Coming Earlier, Study Says, by John Roach. National Geographic News, January 21, 2009.

Guest Column: A New Kind of Big Science, by Aaron E. Hirsh. The Wild Side opinion column, The New York Times, January 13, 2009.

Mandarin grower: "Don't blame the bees", by Cristi Jessee. News10.net, Sacramento, California, January 9, 2009.

Video: "Zone Creep: Gardeners reap global warming benefits by being able to grow species that aren't native to their neck-of-the-woods", Wired Science. PBS.org, 2008.

UA-based program to monitor seasonal wildlife changes, by University Communications. UA News, University of Arizona, December 23, 2008.

Wanted: Volunteers to gauge the coming of spring, by Mary Landers. Savannah Morning News, December 16, 2008.

New UA-led program helps track timing of annual wildlife changes, by B. Poole. Tucson Citizen, December 15, 2008.

Troubling Toll in Thoreau's Backyard, by Billy Baker. The Boston Globe, October 28, 2008.

Thoreau is Rediscovered as a Climatologist, by Cornelia Dean. The New York Times, October 27, 2008.

Plants Disappearing in Walden Pond, by Aram Boghosian. The Boston Globe, October 27, 2008.

Climate Change Affects Yellowstone, by Doyle Rice. USA Today, October 27, 2008.

Climate Change Destroying Walden Pond's Flowers, by Alexis Madrigal. Wired Science, October 27, 2008.

Weather History Offers Insight Into Global Warming, by Anthony DePalma. The New York Times, September 15, 2008.

Signs of the clime: warming in Va. yards...Scientists say it's possible we're seeing the effects of climate change, by Rex Springston. Richmond Times-Dispatch & inRich.com, August 15, 2008.

Spring Flowers: Clues to Climate Change. Climate change researchers ask amateur botanists to record signs of spring. ScienceDaily, May 1, 2008. Includes an interview with Sandra Henderson of Project BudBurst.

Green Gardening: Lilac leaves indicate pea-planting time, by Ann Lovejoy. Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 26, 2008.

Student scientists track climate change, by Seth Borenstein of The Associated Press. Arizona Daily Star, March 20, 2008.

Spring's sprung earlier, warmer: Climate change puts the greening season ahead of schedule for many species in the Northwest by Associated Press and Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporters, March 19, 2008.

Global warming rushes timing of spring - spring keeps coming earlier for birds, bees, trees, and sneezes because of global warming, by Seth Borenstein of The Associated Press. ABC News, March 19, 2008.

Earlier Spring in US, an interactive graphic and map by The Associated Press.

Spring Gets Out of Sync, by Jane Kay. San Francisco Chronicle, December 14, 2006.

Citizen scientists monitor plants, animals and crops, by Robyn Williams. ABC Radio National (Australia), August 15, 2009.

Citizen observation of natural phenomena. by Steve Heimel. Talk of Alaska, July 21, 2009.

Bird lovers build bird database, by Amy Mayer. Living on Earth, July 3, 2009.

USA National Phenology Network, by Linda Kervin. Wild About Utah, July 2, 2009.

Citizen scientists help track climate change, by Kristin Espeland. WFPL News, April 6, 2009.

Saving history: The biologist who protected six million bird-watching notecards, an interview of Chandler Robbins of the North American Bird Phenology Program by M. Webster. The Take Away, April 2, 2009.

Birding gets a digital upgrade, an interview of Jessica Zelt (North American Bird Phenology Program Coordinator) by J. Hockenberry, M. Webster, and F. Oke. The Take Away, April 2, 2009.

USGS scientists, drought and wetlands (news clip starting at 35:45 and ending at 41:19) - including a segment on climate change and phenology monitoring at University of South Florida's Ecological Research Area. WMNF community radio in Tampa, Florida, April 1, 2009.

Climate scientists enlist citizen volunteers, an interview of Jake Weltzin. NPR Talk of the Nation - Science Friday, March 6, 2009.

Last Bat Home. Living on Earth media program, October 17, 2008.

Early Spring: Global warming's alarm clock is blasting Mother Nature out of bed too soon. We examine the consequences for the birds, bees and trees when spring comes early, an interview of Heidi Cullen, Andre Dhondt, and Jake Weltzin by Tom Ashbrook. Boston radio WBUR On Point with Tom Ashbrook, April 22, 2008.

Blossoms Springing Forward Earlier, Too, an interview of Kirsten DeBeurs by Noah Adams. All Things Considered, National Public Radio, March 21, 2008.

In Wisconsin: Phenology. Wisconsin Public Television, Madison, Wisconsin, May, 2010.

Bird-watching Helps Fight Global Warming. ABC, San Francisco, California, July, 2009.

Scientist Tracks Trees Coming Back To Life. Mish Michaels, WBZ, Boston, Massachusetts, May 4, 2009. 

60 Second Science - National Phenology Network. Erin Jordan, KOLD News 13, Tucson, Arizona, March 19, 2009.

Tracking the Drought, (download video) "Scientists are looking for your help as they try to track the effects of climate change and the extent of the drought in Southern Arizona", an interview of Jake Weltzin, Michael Crimmins and Aaryn Olsson. Christopher Conover, Arizona Public Media, Tucson, Arizona, March 16, 2009.

Phenology and Citizen Science, by Amy Mayer. BioScience, March 2010, 60(3): 172-175.

Science Survey: Notes on nature can be a telling scientific record of home, by Catherine M. Cooney. SEJournal, Winter 2009-10, 19(4): 24-25.

In the Cards: A new project is putting 90 years of birdwatchers’ notes online, by Michele Wilson. Audubon, September/October 2009.

A Call for Citizen Scientists, Bay Soundings, Summer 2009.

A Phenological Study of Anulocaulis leiosolenus var. leiosolenus, by Dianne Bangle and Cayenne Engel. Mojave Applied Ecology Notes, Summer 2009.

Phenology at Kew, Information Sheet K36, 2008.

Invasive Species: Agencies look to 'citizen scientists' in fight against noxious invaders, by Scott Streater. Land Letter, E&E Publishing, LLC, April 23, 2009.

'Tracking climate change with plants' program by George Kish, and 'Change you can live with' article by Pete Dunkelberg. The Tarpaper, Newsletter of the Tarflower Chapter of Florida Native Plant Society. Vol. XVXI, February 2009.

The USA National Phenology Network. CRN News of the US Climate Reference Network (NOAA Satellite and Information Service). Vol. 2 No.1, January 2009.

Plant Phenology and Climate Change, by George Kish. The Suncoast Grapevine, Newsletter of the Suncoast Native Plant Society, Inc. 26(1), January 2009.

Want to be involved as a citizen scientist? Phenology: The seasonal pulse of the biosphere. Harbor Happenings (Newsletter of the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program), 12(4), Winter 2009.

A public service - The Christmas bird count is a model to be emulated in distributed, volunteer science. Editorial in Nature 457(8), January 1, 2009.

Citizen Scientists - Environmental studies aren't just for the pros. Do try this at home. Publix GreenWise Market Magazine, December 2008.

CLIMATE: Feds plan to enlist citizen help to look for warming's impact on wildlife, by Scott Streater. Land Letter, E&E Publishing, LLC, December 11, 2008.

Project BudBurst is recruiting the public to observe, record plant growth - and maybe keep an eye on climate change, by Matt Wilson. Goleta Valley Voice, Goleta, CA, Fall 2008.

Phenology, citizen science, and Dave Bertelsen - 25 years of plant blooms on the Finger Rock Trail in the Santa Catalina Mountains, by Zack Guido. Southwest Climate Outlook, August 2008.

Seeing the Forest and the Trees, by David Richardson. Miller-McCune Publications, April 7, 2008.

Lessons of the Flowers, by Laura Tangley. National Wildlife Federation National Wildlife Magazine, Apr/May 2008, Vol 46, No. 3.

Budding Scientists, by Kelli Whitlock Burton. In: Random Samples - A Science Publication, March 7, 2008.

Walden Warming, by T. Edward Nickens. National Wildlife Federation National Wildlife Magazine, Oct/Nov 2007, Vol 45, No. 6.

Teaming up with Thoreau, by Michelle Nijhuis. Smithsonian Magazine, October 2007.