Explore contemporary data collected through Nature's Notebook using the visualization tool below.

Tutorial

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Visualization Home Page

View all sites registered with Nature's Notebook. Click on a circle to see the individual sites in that state.

Select and Map a Species

Select a species from the box on the top right (filter by category, partner or use a keyword search). Click "Add to List" to show it in the box below, and then click "Map" to map the locations where that species has been reported on the map. A phenophase legend will apper in the upper right, and a timeslider will appear in the lower right. Up to three species can be mapped at the same time.

On the timeslider in the lower righthand corner, you can "Animate" the species' phenology through time (a small graph above the timeline shows how many observations there are for this species through time). You may customize the start and end points, the speed of the animation (frames per second) and the moving window (how many days are shown at a time). You may also pause, rewind, fast forward or loop the animation.

 Add Climate

By opening the "Climate Map Controls" in the lower left and setting "Climate Data" to visible, you can view maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation either by month or annually as a background layer on the map (PRISM 30 year normals are used for this data layer). If you animate data through time, with climate visible, you will see the climate data on the background change alongside the phenology data.

Future enhancements for climate data include the addition of current monthly data from PRISM and point data from weather stations.

Graph Phenology Data

To delve into the phenology data for a particular site or region either click on the site or set a bounding box around a region (use the "Activate Multiple Site Selection" button to select a region). You'll then see a graphical interface where you can view phenology data through time. The boxes on the left show the species and individuals available for the site or region. Use the "Add Phenophases for Species" or "Add Phenophases for Individuals" to graph the data on the right. You can compare phenology graphs for up to three species in this way. To compare data for the same species across up to three locations, use the "Change Location" button (loading species information into each graph for the same site; and then changing location is the best way to compare species across sites; the map in the lower left shows sites color-coded to match the graph titles). You might also want to compare three years for the same species, and same location - use the year drop down to accomplish this.

Share what you find...

Suppose you'd like to show someone what the map of sites reporting American Beech or when Ruby-Throated Hummingbirds are arriving in Maine. To do so, you can go to this version of the tool: http://www.usanpn.org/files/viz/index.html and set it up the way you want it (species, zoom level, region, time frame) and then copy the URL path. Anyone who uses this URL path can see what you see, and then interact with it further. 

This is the first release of this dynamic visualization tool and we welcome your feedback!