USA NPN National Phenology Network

Taking the Pulse of Our Planet

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Great Smoky Mountains NP

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.

City: 
Cherokee
State: 
NC
Organization Type: 
Plan to Use Nature's Notebook for:: 
Informing management
Answering science questions
Studying climate change impacts
Status and trends (or baseline) monitoring
Engaging the public
Contributing to a national effort
Entrypoint for citizen science
This LPP is working with K-16 students: 
More than 30 students: 
Under-served Communities: 
Yes
Under-served how?: 
We hope to engage as many local Cherokee (EBCI) people as possible
Involves indigenous communities: 
This LPP is part of a Phenology Trail: 
Personal Site Network: 
First Observation Date: 
March, 2012
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