USA National Phenology Network
Working Groups
Relevant Articles
Teaming up with Thoreau, Smithsonian Magazine, Oct. 2007
Climate Reference Network (CRN) Newsletter, NCDC NOAA, Sept. 2007
Buzzing about Climate Change, Earth Observatory NASA, Sept. 2007
Project Budburst, Become a citizen scientist as you watch flowers bloom
Announcements
Land Surface Phenology workshop
at US-IALE meeting,
8 April 2008
Archives
ASPRS and USA-NPN
Towards a Southwest Phenology Network, Southwest US Region
Oct. 5, 2007
Tucson, AZ
American Geophysical Union
B17: Observing, Analyzing, and Modeling Phenologies at Multiple Scales
Fall Meeting, Dec. 10-14, 2007
San Francisco, CA
Participate
Project BudBurst Data & Tools
A variety of ongoing phenology monitoring activities are affiliated with and support the goals of USA-NPN. Observers can register, contribute observations, or obtain existing data from Dr. Mark Schwartz's NPN web site at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Geography/npn/. Project BudBurst (http://www.windows.ucar.edu/citizen_science/budburst/) is an NPN-affiliated program, launched in 2007, specifically targeted to engage an meet the needs of educational groups and citizen scientists. Many other programs focus on phenology of specific organisms or groups (e.g., hummingbirds, frogs, etc), and a list of some of these activities can be found on Dr. Schwartz's site at http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/Geography/npn/networks.html
As the infrastructure of the USA-NPN Coordinating Office is implemented, we expect the Coordinating Office to provide services that will facilitate access and analyses using data from many databases. Information on phenology is useful for a wide variety of purposes, and data on phenology will continue to be collected, managed, analyzed, and distributed by many different people and groups.