Phenology in the News

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Appleton Post Crescent
With plenty of room for all of your comments, thoughts and feelings and weather and nature phenology notes, it retails for $39.50. Create your own garden sketches, list out your plant inventories by season and so much more. One of the most thoughtful ...

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Phenology, fermentation topics of Hartman event
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
Participants will learn about phenology - changes to nature through the seasons - and fermentation (the conversion of sugars to alcohol). People can enjoy a morning snowshoe hike at Popp Access in rural Black Hawk County, then stop for lunch in ...

Wired.co.uk
Images of Remembrance Day studied for climate change clues
Wired.co.uk
Phenology is "the timing of naturally recurring events as diverse as ice-melt, bear hibernation, bird migration, insect flight, plant flowering and lawn cutting", explains environmental scientist Professor Tim Sparks. He is using images taken of events ...

Nooga.com
Field Excursions: Citizen science fun at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at ...
Nooga.com
Tremont—one of only a few nature centers in the country located within the boundaries of a national park—recently added phenology to its citizen science offerings, a branch of science dealing with the relations between climate and periodic biological ...

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WSJ Marginalizes Muller
Columbia Journalism Review (blog)
The basic fact of warming is supported by a huge array of complementary data (ocean warming, ice melting, phenology etc) … If the Berkeley results are newsworthy, it is only because Muller had been perceived as an outsider (driven in part by ...

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Muir site to track Mt. Wanda's seasonal changes
Martinez News-Gazette
A scientific team from UC Santa Barbara, the US Geologic Survey and National Phenology Network has selected Martinez's John Muir National Historic Site (JMHS) as a study site to track any changes in the areas' plants and animals. ...

BBC News
UK trees' fruit ripening '18 days earlier'
BBC News
Prof Sparks said Nature's Calendar, formerly known as the UK Phenology Network, was established in 1998 to collect spring-time information. "But the gap in data was in the autumn So, since about 2000, the scheme has also been collecting data on things ...

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Publico.es (blog)
Ciencia puntera en tiempos de crisis: investigando el cambio global sin gastar ...
Publico.es (blog)
El artículo citado es: Graham, EA, EC Riordan, EM Yuen, D. Estrin, and PW Rundel. 2010. Public Internet-connected cameras used as a cross-continental ground-based plant phenology monitoring system. Global Change Biology 16:3014-3023.

Lexington Herald Leader
Education Notes
Lexington Herald Leader
Campbell claimed top honors in the Environmental Science and Green Technology category for "Assessing Pollinator Food Sources and Phenology on Eastern Kentucky University's Campus." The conference was held in Phoenix, Ariz., Oct. 19-23. ...

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Bayfield Banter 11/10
County Journal
The phenology calendar lists the last of the sand hill cranes migrating south around the 13th of November. Around the 19th the Ring-necked pheasants begin to winter in the cattails. Veteran's Day is Nov. 11. The American Legion Post #49 will hold an ...

Blame for post-storm power woes rests with humans heating the planet
The Boston Globe
Having birthed a child on Halloween, I hosted many birthday parties whose festivities included jumping in the leaves. Indeed, in 1979, I had the leaves all raked before I went into labor. We humans have collectively altered the phenology of nature by ...

Pruning is mandatory for home grapevines
The Nation, Pakistan
However, this behaviour mainly depends on the phenology and physiology of each variety. Use iron wire to tie off your vines and create horizontal supports. Don't prune too early in fall and after first week of March. Always use sharp scissors to make ...

Supplementary Data
Am J Botany (subscription)
Appendix S1 - Species found in four or more of the 2007�2008 phenology plots, their four-letter abbreviations, and the total number of plots in which they were found. Appendix S2 - Mean Julian date at which each phenological stage was reached in the ...

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Food Demand and Availability for a Bird -- the Willow Tit -- of Northern Finland
CO2 Science Magazine
Shifts in caterpillar biomass phenology due to climate change and its impact on the breeding biology of an insectivorous bird. Oecologia 147: 164-172. Visser, ME, van Noordwijk, AJ, Tinbergen, JM and Lessells, CM 1998. Warmer springs lead to mistimed ...

WHAT'S DOING
Brainerd Daily Dispatch
John Latimer, host of the Phenology Show on KAXE Radio, will be the speaker at 7 pm Wednesday at the Northland Arboretum and is sponsored by Brainerd Lakes Area Audubon Society. Want to learn more about our environment and how it changes with the ...

Berkeley earthquake called off
RealClimate
The basic fact of warming is supported by a huge array of complementary data (ocean warming, ice melting, phenology etc). And shouldn't it have helped reduce the element of surprise that a National Academy of Sciences study already concluded that the ...

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142 Square Miles Swept For Every Living Thing
NPR
THERESA CRIMMINS NATIONAL PHENOLOGY NETWORK: Do you see any open flowers, any flowers on this guy? ROBBINS: Theresa Crimmins is showing a group of students from Flowing Wells Middle school what to look for on a saguaro cactus. ...

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Marvelous Maples May Migrate -- Thanks to Global Warming
Huffington Post
Richard Primack, Professor of Biology at Boston University studies timing in nature (phenology) and says spring is arriving earlier all over New England, where the long term weather has gotten 1-2 degrees (F) warmer over the last 150 years. ...

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CBC.ca
'Citizen scientists' track tardy fall colours
CBC.ca
"The ultimate goal is to see whether the timing of the fall is changing and how to use that information and how to adapt to that change," says Jake Weltsin, executive director of the National Phenology Network. "We are enlisting citizen scientists to ...

Science students study reasons
Nashoba Publishing
The Harvard Forest website is http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu/museum/phenology.html. "It's easy to contribute to authentic scientific research. We can all be citizen scientists," said McCracken. It does makes one look at the autumn colors in a ...