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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.

Santa Fe
NM
This LPP is working with students.
This LPP is working with under-served communities.
Partner Website:
First Observation:
01/2012

Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge is using Nature's Notebook at their NWR in Reigon 2.

First Observation:
06/2017

Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden Education in Richmond, VA is using Nature's Notebook to help the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden community understand that it can contribute to climate change research by participating in phenology citizen science activities.

Richmond, VA
First Observation:
01/2019

The Linda Loring Nature Foundation is a non-profit land trust on Nantucket Island dedicated to research, stewardship, and education around our native biodiversity. We collect phenology data on common, native shrubs to track changes in the signature species of our landscape. We have been collecting phenology data with NPN since 2015.

At Little River Wetlands Project, we have an active and dedicated volunteer base, many who take weekly (or more frequent) hikes on the preserves are working on  tracking the seasonal changes on the properties in Fort Wayne, IN to monitor the impacts of climate change and to make that data available for future projects. Nature's Notebook offers a great way for us to start collecting those observations in a centralized location and will assist in tracking what is happening on our properties, and also add to the national database.

Fort Wayne
IN
First Observation:
02/2018

Livingston High School in Livingston, NJ is using Nature's Notebook to engage students in citizen science and have the students complete observations year after year. Data collection and field work are two things that are very important in the school curriculum.

Livingston, NJ
This LPP is working with students.
First Observation:
09/2018

Our Center is the biological field station of Fordham University where we provided place-based ecological research opportunities to Fordham students. We are using Nature's Notebook to provide an easy to use platform for undergraduates who are just learning about phenology and the importance of long term data collection.

Armonk
NY
This LPP is working with students.
First Observation:
10/2021

Lowell Elementary is a part of the OHIO Wild project. Teachers have been expressing a need for citizen science opportunities to use at their schools and/or their WILD School Sites. Nature's Notebook will give students and teachers a chance to create their own science questions and decide what data to gather from their school. The group is committed to helping students learn more about hands-on science through conservation education curriculums, and Nature's Notebook will be a serve in this process.

Lowell
OH

MacLeish Field Station collecting Fall Phenology data and would like students to be able to compare our data with other sites around the country and learn to formulate  questions that they could investigate using the data.

Whately, Massachusetts
This LPP is working with students.
This LPP is working with under-served communities.

Madrone Audubon is using Nature's Notebook with the Audubon CA chapter (48 throughout the state) volunteers to monitor bird phenology on preserves statewide to detect any possible climate change drive shifts and to engage volunteers in climate change research. Our chapter is active in Paula Lane Nature Preserve and will be observing the following species: Acorn Woodpecker, Anna's Hummingbird, Calliope Hummingbird, Rufous Hummingbird, Mourning Dove, Violet-green swallow, Dark-Eyed Junco, Cedar Waxwing.

Petaluma
CA
This LPP is working with under-served communities.
First Observation:
04/2016

Mahoning County Extension Phenology Garden in Canfield, OH is using Nature's Notebook to continue the data collection efforts established with the Ohio Phenology Network and to provide a mechanism within Extension for an ongoing Citizen Science Project.

Canfield
OH

Maine Audubon - Fields Pond Center in Holden, 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 our Local Phenology 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. We aim to engage volunteers and participants on how they can become involved and easily contribute to science by using Nature's Notebook.

Holden
ME
First Observation:
09/2017

We plan to start phenology trails at each of the Maricopa County Parks. These trails will serve as a way to educate our Spring cohorts about phenology and community science. The trails will also off our members volunteer opportunities and provide the park managers with important data. We also to use them as a method for community outreach.

Phoenix
AZ
This LPP is working with under-served communities.
First Observation:
02/2022

Mars Hill University Arboretum and Tree Trail has a Arboretum and Tree Trail which is a fairly new resource on our Mars Hill, NC campus.  We want to get students more involved in the community, and the community more involved on campus, both centered around a citizen science project on campus. Additionally, our science department (Biology and Zoology) has a goal of giving students more practice with quantitative skills. Collecting, managing, and analyzing phenology data will provide some of that practice. These needs will be addressed by having students enter and use the data within the Nature's Notebook database.

Mars Hill
NC
This LPP is working with students.
First Observation:
10/2019

As part of the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program, we have been helping to facilitate phenology monitoring sites and programming throughout our area and build our local phenology data. At the Martin Van Buren Historic Site the primary purpose of the phenology trail will be to facilitate public engagement with phenology and the local effects of climate change in an agricultural landscape, by providing modern data that might be compared to phenology data collected in the same town in the 1830s and 1840s (during the time Martin Van Buren lived in Kinderhook).

Kinderhook
NY
This LPP is working with under-served communities.
First Observation:
03/2021

Mass Audubon Habitat Phenology Society in Belmont, Massachusetts is using Nature's Notebook to get the community involved in an effort to tackle climate change effects in an urban wildlife refuge. As part of our ecological management plan, we assess and monitor the well-being and state of our ecosystems, as well as manage them. With ongoing phenological data, we hope to ensure the long term health of our ecosystems, by monitoring trends and seeing how a changing climate will affect the species on site.

Belmont
MA
First Observation:
04/2019

With the drastic changes we've seen in our weather over the past two years and our ongoing drought, we feel it is important to obtain as much data as possible about how our native plants are adapting or not adapting. Master Gardeners in Tucson, AZ will be using Nature's Notebook to track and examine their phenological data.

Tucson
AZ
First Observation:
03/2021

McDowell Sonoran Conservancy Phenology Trails' data collected in Nature's Notebook will be valuable in performing ecological research through partnerships and citizen science for the long-term natural resource management of the Scottsdale McDowell Sonoran Preserve while providing educational opportunities for the community and contributing to broader scientific knowledge.

Scottsdale
AZ
First Observation:
12/2016

McLeod Water Park in coastal Kiln, Mississippi is using Nature's Notebook with the Gulf Coast Phenology Trail to make observations to assist in determining if there is an east-west gradient of spring plant blooms and when plants leaf out.  

Kiln
MS
First Observation:
03/2019

We are using Nature's Notebook to provide undergraduate students with an opportunity to experience the process of science, which includes: synthesizing results and methods from past studies, formulating a research question, designing a study, collecting data, and disseminating results to a broader audience. Students will work in teams on a collaborative phenology project to meet course outcomes, and help contribute to the national database while doing so.

Raleigh
NC
This LPP is working with students.
This LPP is working with under-served communities.
Partner Website:
First Observation:
09/2021

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