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Active Local Phenology Networks
Here you will find our list of Local Phenology Programs using Nature's Notebook. If a group listed has a blank entry or is missing information, they have not updated their information with our USA-NPN NCO staff in 2019.
Click here to view a map of all of our Certified Local Phenology Leaders.
If you are a Local Phenology Leader who would like to complete or update your LPPs listing, please contact groups@usanpn.org.
Recently, we've introduced phenology in our teacher education programs with the phenomenon of changes in the timing of sap flow in sugar maples, approaching the explanation from the perspectives of western sugar bush farmers (Cornell University specialists and scientists) and Indigenous sugar bush farmers, Anishinaabe elders. This phenomenon is more local, this is a tree native to our forests in New York City. Teachers create a model based on an initial explanation for the sap flow changes from Cornell scientists and their own knowledge. We introduce the voice and Traditional Ecolological Knowledge of Indigenous sugar bush keepers, and teachers revise models based on the understandings of all streams of knowledge.
Brooklyn
NY
This LPP is working with under-served communities.
First Observation:
04/2009
University of Marylandin College Park, MD will be collecting and analyzing phenology data as part of their Ecology class. Students will have the experience of field data collection and analysis, and the data that the students collect and analyze to be useful and shared with others. They will be placing temperature sensors in each tree to collect spring temperature data, as well as collecting phenology data with Nature's Notebook.
College Park, MD
This LPP is working with students.
First Observation:
01/2018
Ball State University Field Station and Environmental Education Center is using Nature's Notebook in Muncie, Indiana for community & class involvement and, monitoring trends.
IN
This LPP is working with students.
This LPP is working with under-served communities.
First Observation:
03/2021
Sasabe
AZ
First Observation:
11/2018
Tucson
AZ
First Observation:
07/2013
Various
CA
First Observation:
02/2010
Davis
WV
First Observation:
04/2015
We are using Nature's Notebook to offer Oro Valley residents a safe outdoor activity in existing parks and hiking trails that will introduce them to citizen science activities that can be used to monitor the local environment.
Oro Valley
AZ
This LPP is working with students.
First Observation:
03/2021
We are using Nature's Notebook to allow our students to be part of a research project that goes beyond the classroom. Students will observe a tree once each week and also keep a field journal with other details related to phenology.
Belmont
CA
This LPP is working with students.
This LPP is working with under-served communities.
Millbrook
NY
First Observation:
06/2009
We are using Nature's Notebook to get more people engaged in making phenological observations. Visitors to our Nature Center can make observations on five trees that are registered with the USA National Phenology Network.
Ithaca
NY
This LPP is working with students.
This LPP is working with under-served communities.
First Observation:
07/2021
California College of the Arts is using Nature's Notebook to collect student observations over time. We aim to have students document trees and plants in an area that will soon be disturbed and to learn to identify specific trees and plants. Our students "adopt" a plant or tree, and follow it through the season. Over time we hope the project enhances student learning about plants, ecosystems, and climate change.
Oakland
CA
This LPP is working with students.
This LPP is working with under-served communities.
Partner Website:
First Observation:
02/2014
Cedar Crest College - Cigliano Research Lab plans to set up a long-term observational study on the phenological changes in native species as climate change indicators in the William F. Curtis Arboretum at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA.
Allentown
PA
First Observation:
05/2017
Organization staff, volunteers, school groups will be using Nature's Notebook to create a data stream to the National Phenological Network and increase membership and involvement at Chik-Wauk Museum and Nature Center in Grand Marais, MN. They want to promote nature center members to observe seasonal changes more critically and provide additional opportunities for visitors to engage in.
First Observation:
06/2017
Citizen Science Team at Trinity Christian College is using Nature's Notebook to engage students on campus with ecology and the environment. We plan to observe plants in the campus landscape and along a forested trail on campus.
Big bluestem
Switchgrass
Butterfly milkweed
Bur oak
Eastern redbud
Palos Height
IL
This LPP is working with students.
First Observation:
09/2019
City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks Citizen Science Phenology Program is using Nautre's Notebook for phenological observation and recording using the USA-NPN standardized protocols. We have completed a 2-year pilot program of phenological plant monitoring with multiple volunteer observers at four sites (trails) that monitors four species of native shrubs. We would like to contribute the data and attribute the observations to multiple observers. We have not determined if we will repeat the monitoring of the marked plants, but if we do, being a group facilitates data entry using an app. In addition, we may do other types of phenological monitoring using this group in the future.
Boulder
CO
First Observation:
03/2021