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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.
Glacier National Park would like to formalize observations and input them into a larger database, using Nature's Notebook. With the USA-NPN's tools, they will create visualizations to be used for educational purposes. They aim to expand this program beyond the division of Interpretation to include other divisions within the park.
Grassroots Ecology has established a Nature's Notebook group in order to track the observations from California Naturalist class community scientists and other volunteers of the organization who are interested in contributing to phenology projects.
Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust is a part of Downeast Phenology Trail in Maine, is using Nature's Notebook to expand the geographic range of our phenology and bird migration project, which may turn into other projects as data and program develop further. We seek to inform local partners about the importance of phenology data on their land and how they can help and contribute to their own conservation goals. Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust aims to engage volunteers and participants on how they can become involved and easily contribute to science by using Nature's Notebook.
We intend to use Nature's Notebook as a gathering place for the phenological data collected so that everyone can follow the same protocols and have an organized place to store it. Additionally, Nature's Notebook helps us with providing a multitude of resources to help both new staff members and volunteers at our National Park to access the information that they need to make the project successful. Lastly, we want the data we're collecting to be accessable and useful to many other organizations and researchers and Nature's Notebook makes that easy to do.
The Gulf Coast Phenology Trail is composed of the following Local Phenology Programs (LPPs):
Barataria Phenology Trail, Bayou Lafourche Phenology Trail, Bayou Sauvage NWR, Big Branch Marsh NWR, Couturie Forest Phenology Trail, Crosby Arboretum, Grand Bay NWR/NERR, McLeod Water Park, Mississippi Sandhill Crane NWR, Pascagoula River Audubon Center, USM Long Beach, USM Marine Education Center
2018 Impact Statement
Harford Community College is using Nature's Notebook to acquire baseline phenophase data for their region near Bel Air, Maryland in order to conduct further phenological research.
Wickenburg Outdoor Education is working with schools and a nature preserve in Wickenburg, AZ area to establish a multi-site phenology trail that can be used by the general public and by teachers as part of their STEM curriculum by establishing the Hassayampa Phenology Trail.
Our non-profit Huntington Beach Tree Society plants and maintains trees (at the HB Urban Forest, more than 7,000 native and CA-friendly trees and plants so far), educates the public about the benefits and importance of trees and California-friendly plants, enlarges our city's green environment (another name for plants/trees in cities) for the enjoyment and health of all people and increases habitat for urban wildlife. Nature's Notebook adds value to our efforts.
High Marq Environmental Charter School in Montello, Wisconsin is using Nature's Notebook to school needs to provide structure and purpose for students’ ongoing phenology observations. Their data should will then be in a usable format for researchers, including the students themselves, who will use the data.
Indiana Phenology and Holliday Park are jointly sponsoring our project using Nature's Notebook to develop a network of site across Indiana to gather baseline data on phenology timing in Indiana.
Idaho Botanical Garden in Boise is a regional leader in sustainable horticulture practices and education, and use Nature's Notebook generated data to articulate shifts in local phenology and their implications toward landscape suitability and resilience.
Adult volunteers, largely graduates of the Tennessee Naturalist Certification Program, school groups, home school families, with nature center staff providing the support and training will contribute phenology data from Ijams Phenology Nature Center to a national database, engage volunteers, home school groups, puplic school youth, and summer day camp youth participants in citizen science. The group has seven plots they are observing in Knoxville, TN:
Secret Pond Plot
Latitude: 35.95704, Longitude: -83.86986
(from google maps – 35.957141, -83.870236)
Tree List
- Pignut Hickory, Carya glabra
- Mockernut Hickory, Carya tomentosa
- Northern Red Oak, Quercus rubra
- Sugar Maple, Acer saccharum
- American Beech, Fagus gradifolia
- Sugar Maple, Acer saccharum
- Tulip Tree, Lirodendron
River Trail Plot
Latitude: 35.95719, Longitude: -83.86659
Tree List
- Basswood, Tilia americana
- Mockernut Hickory, Carya tomentosa
- Hackberry, Celtis occidentalis
- Spicebush, Lindera benzoin
- White Oak, Quercus alba
- Silverbell, Halesia tetraptera
- Redbud, Cercis canadensis
- Sugar Maple, Acer saccharum
Indiana Backyard Observers is using Nature's Notebook as a part of the Indiana Phenology Trail to begin a long-term local phenology monitoring program utilizing Nature's Notebook's standardized protocols and infrastructure.
Indiana Phenology is sponsoring the Indiana Phenology Network to bring together individual Indiana Backyard Observers, Local Phenology Programs (LPP’s) at partnering sites in Indiana, such as Holliday Park, and schools all using Nature’s Notebook to gather data on phenology timing in Indiana.
2019 Impact Statement
Plant phenology is a great indicator of environmental changes. Such data is not presently readily available in Indiana. Indiana Phenology works to fill that gap by engaging people of all ages in phenology observation using Nature's Notebook, a program developed by the USA National Phenology Network.
The goal of our project is to document the leafing, flowering and fruiting of common native plants in all 92 Indiana counties. This data will help us measure the impact of environmental changes, including climate change, so that we can effectively respond and adapt. We hold workshops, create and share resources, provide training and educational opportunities, and share a monthly newsletter reporting observations from the past month.
In 2019, our first year, 19 observers made 17,823 observations at 25 sites in 11 counties. Our observers monitored 89 different species including Eastern redbud, Tuliptree, Sugar maple, Bur oak and Canadian serviceberry. We are 12% of our way to our long-term goal of having observers in every county of Indiana.