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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.
Nature's Notebook provides an opportunity for the community (school groups & families) to engage in an activity that promotes being outdoors, observing nature and learning about their outdoor environment. The continuous nature of Nature's Notebook is ideal for connecting people to a specific location over time.
Nature's Notebook presents a great opportunity to connect remote learning students at Colorado Mountain College with nature, allowing them to observe, record, and analyze data over our 16 week semester.
College of Menominee Nation Phenology Walk in Keshena, Wisconsin aims to engage students and community in observing the land.
Colorado National Monument is using Nature's Notebook for our Cottonwood Observation Project to establish a site where students, volunteers, employees and community members can contribute to creating a baseline of phenological observations of a cottonwood species and for this site to be an experiential education resource and a springboard for climate change dialogue. We will work with community members including scientists, teachers, and CMU professors to establish a monitoring program that emphasizes citizen science and climate change communication. New recruitment of pioneer cottonwood in riparian areas in the arid southwest is threatened by climate change impacts and phenologlical observations of the species could inform research if hotter/earlier spring temperatures are quickening historic seed dispersal trends.
Columbia College Forestry and Natural Resources is using Nature's Notebook in a series of Cal Nat, Ecology, and Climate Change courses which involve natural observation. One course a semester will be suing the Local Phenology Project to add to the same data set for the college and national program. Our LPP is most interested in baseline data and change over time.
Columbia Land Conservancy Phenology Trails in Chatham, NY in using Nature's Notebook Establish to establish a trail that will contribute data to a regional dataset and to the USA National Phenology Network dataset.
The Collaborative established the New York Phenology Project is a community-science initiative to investigate changing plant and pollinator phenology across an urban to rural gradient in lower NY.
We are using Nature's Notebook to create a community engagement, student education, and ecological monitoring tool at our non-profit nature preserve, which is free to the public and accessible to great variety of people. We will coordinate several tiers of data collection: Comprehensive phenological monitoring, to inform our conservation and land stewardship priorities; School group activities, to include phenology into our educational programming; Incidental and opportunistic data collection from visitors to the preserve, to bolster engagement from community members in science and ecological monitoring.
Part of the California Phenology Project
Crosby Arboretum is using Nature's Notebook for outreach and engagement of young visitors.
We are using volunteers to collect data on a long-term experiment that is a collaboration between the National Park Service, City of St. Paul, University of Minnesota and Mississippi Park Connection (https://parkconnection.org/). The last is the non-profit partner of the Mississippi River National River and Recreation Area. The project is part of the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change Network (https://www.adaptivesilvicult
We aim to use Nature's Notebook to give students the opportunity to engage in meaningful science and data collection within the Denver metro region. A second goal of this program is to collect data on how tree phenology varies within the Denver metro region, and use this for the basis for research on urban forest health, spatial distribution of ecosystem services within urban areas, and urban forest response to climate change.
We aim to use Nature's Notebook to give students the opportunity to engage in meaningful science and data collection within the Denver metro region. A second goal of this program is to collect data on how tree phenology varies within the Denver metro region, and use this for the basis for research on urban forest health, spatial distribution of ecosystem services within urban areas, and urban forest response to climate change.
Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden's primary purpose in creating a phenology 'walk' is outreach and engagement of our school groups, volunteers and Garden guests. Through community engagement, visitors will select visitation of spaces underutilized while making connections in nature. School groups will learn about phenology, make 'big picture' connections and potentially begin the journey of becoming citizen scientists.
Their science question is broad-based yet relevant enough to the general Garden audience.
"How do changes in season affect native plant species over time?"
Twenty-five select tree, fern and wildflower plots have been identified for observation in the Garden in Belmont, NC, on the existing Persimmon Trail, easily accessible to all participants making observations.
To start with, 9th grade environmental science students will be using Nature's Notebook. Potentially other departments at the school could use it as well. Integrating modern and historical phenology observations into a environmental science curriculum.
Desert View High School is participating in Nature's Notebook with the Tucson Phenology Trail. Our high school is working with a team to get public school students connected to the national park through citizen science. The first step is to get students engaged on campus and then take that experience and connect it to similar experiences at the park. This group at Desert View is a small piece to this much bigger project. We plan to formulate questions, collect data and then analyze that data along with data that has been collected by others in the past to investigate ecosystems and climate change.