jake f. weltzin us geological survey alyssa rosemartin university of arizona the usa national...
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Jake F. WeltzinUS Geological Survey
Alyssa RosemartinUniversity of Arizona
www.usanpn.org
The USA National Phenology Network
A Practical Tool for Conservation and
Education in the Face of Climate Change
Outline
• Introduction to USA-NPN
• Core functions
• Web-based tools and services
• Phenology monitoring methods
• Nature's Notebook
• Field adventure!
• Break-out groups– Research– Management and decision-support– Education and outreach
“Phenology…is perhaps the simplest process in which to track changes in the ecology of species
in response to climate change.” (IPCC 2007)
• Easy to observe• Sensitive to environmental variation• Scales from 'leaf to globe'• Linked to most aspects of ecosystems
A new data resource—a national network of integrated phenological observations across
space and time
Key Goal
Understand how plants, animals and landscapes respond to environmental variation and climate change
Key sponsors and collaborators…
The Great Sunflower Project
• A national biological science and monitoring program
• Agencies, NGOs, academia, the public
• Standard protocols for plants, animals & landscapes
• Facilitate scaling from 'leaf to globe'
• Integrate with other monitoring networks
• Business to Business and Business to Customer
USA-NPN in a nutshell
Outline
• Introduction to USA-NPN
• Core functions
• Web-based tools and services
• Phenology monitoring methods
• Nature's Notebook
• Field adventure!
• Break-out groups– Research– Management and decision-support– Education and outreach
• Develop a national phenology information management system
• Develop partnerships for implementation
• Facilitate phenology science and research
• Facilitate development of decision support tools
• Conduct and facilitate education and outreach
• Develop a national phenology monitoring system
Core functions
Information management
Decision- support
Research
Education
Search
Synthesis
Visualizations
Work platform
Datasets
Products
NCO Information Management SystemData
Contemp-orary
Legacy
Partners
Ancillary
Data curation
User interface
Databases
National Phenology Network
Metadata
Native American
Tribes
Native American
Tribes
ScientistsScientistsSpecializedNetworks
SpecializedNetworks
PublicAgencies
PublicAgencies
NGOsNGOs
EducatorsEducators
CitizenScientists
CitizenScientists
National Coordinating Office
Information ManagementMonitoring Programs
CommunicationsResource ManagersResource Managers
Partnerships and services
Science and Research
Willis et al. 2008 PNASMoller et al. 2008 PNAS
Willis et al. 2010 PLOS BiologyHulme 2010 New Phyt.
Change in phenology
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Increasing
Decreasing
Predicting vulnerability, invasions and distributions
• Science
• Predictive services
• Health
• Resource mgmt
• Conservation
• Agriculture
• Ecosystem services
• Recreation
Applications and decision-support tools
Education and
outreach for K-Gray
Steve Ringman, The Seattle Times
Ross Franklin, AP
Outline
• Introduction to USA-NPN
• Core functions
• Web-based tools and services
• Phenology monitoring methods
• Nature's Notebook
• Field adventure!
• Break-out groups– Research– Management and decision-support– Education and outreach
A national phenology monitoring system
www.usanpn.org/how-observe
Real time data available soon
www.usanpn.org/node/add/ct-dataset
Data set registry tool
www.usanpn.org/results/dataset-list
Phenology dataset search tool
Educator’s Clearinghouse
www.usanpn.org/education/clearinghouse
Phenology publications
www.usanpn.org/resources/biblio
Partnership tool
www.usanpn.org/participate/new-partners
Training resources
www.usanpn.org/resources/resources
Learn about other phenology programs
www.usanpn.org/participate/other-programs
Outline
• Introduction to USA-NPN
• Core functions
• Web-based tools and services
• Phenology monitoring methods
• Nature's Notebook
• Field adventure!
• Break-out groups– Research– Management and decision-support– Education and outreach
Event
Activity Reproduction Development
Day of year
Phenology Monitoring Methods
Status & Abundance
Status
• Event– When did you hear the first frog call? (date)
• Status– Do you hear a frog calling? (Y N ?)
• Status & Abundance– Do you hear a frog calling? (Y N ?)– If Y, are they
– Non-overlapping calls?– Overlapping with distinguishable individuals?– A full chorus—constant, overlapping calls?
Alternate Monitoring Methodse.g., frog-calling
Event
Day of year
Event vs Status Monitoringe.g., frog calling
Y
Status NNNN??NNNYNNNYYYYYNN
Outline
• Introduction to USA-NPN
• Core functions
• Web-based tools and services
• Phenology monitoring methods
• Nature's Notebook
• Field adventure!
• Break-out groups– Research– Management and decision-support– Education and outreach
• 253+ plant species
• 58+ animal species
• Core status monitoring protocols
• Species on demand
• Abundance reporting
• User profiles
a project of the USA-NPN
Cumulative
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Obs 2009
Obs 2010
Data reporting in 2010 similar to 2009
3K participants; website: 67K visitors, 100K visits, 500K pageviews
2010
• Identify & Register a Site
• Select Plants & Animals– Animal Checklist– Register Individual Plants
• Make Observations in the Field
• Submit Observations Online
a project of the USA-NPN
A site is:
• The area within which you’ll look for your animal species
• The area which encompasses any plants you plan to observe
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a project of the USA-NPN
• Convenience
• Representative location
• Uniform habitat
• Appropriate size
• Proper permission
Site Selection Guidelines
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a project of the USA-NPN
Overview
• Identify & Register a Site
• Select Plants & Animals– Animal Checklist– Register Individual Plants
• Make Observations in the Field
• Submit Observations
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• Animals: create a checklist for your site,
look and listen for all species each time
you visit
• Plants: repeat observations of the same
individual plants
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a project of the USA-NPN
a project of the USA-NPN
• Identify & Register a Site
• Select Plants & Animals– Create Animal Checklist– Register Individual Plants
• Make Observations in the Field
• Submit Observations
a project of the USA-NPN
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Compare phenophases to what you observe.
a project of the USA-NPN
• Yes (Y) – if the phenophase is occurring
• No (N) – if the phenophase is not occurring
• Unknown (?) – if you did not or forgot to look for signs of this phenophase or not certain you heard or saw that animal species
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a project of the USA-NPN
An example:
• Site: your front yard• Species on your animal checklist:
– American robin– Black-capped chickadee– Bumblebee
• Plants registered:– One individual mayapple plant
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a project of the USA-NPN
On your site visit, you stand in one place and observe:
• A bumblebee visiting flowers• One robin perched and singing
• You also make observations of your mayapple plant
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5/5/10
Robin
Black-capped chickadee
Bumblebee
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American robin My front yard
5/5/10
2010
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Bumblebee My front yard
5/5/10
2010
5353
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Mayapple Mayapple-front yard
5/5/10
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Mayapple Mayapple-front yard
5/5/10
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• Walking a single line through site
• Stationary at a single point
• Area search: multiple passes through site
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Observing animals
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My front yard 2010 USA-NPN Fan
4/1/10 4/3/10 4/9/10 4/11/10 4/15/10
15 15 18 19 15
2 2 2 2 2
5 5 5 5 5
• Identify & Register a Site
• Select Plants & Animals– Animal Checklist– Register Individual Plants
• Make Observations in the Field
• Submit Observations Online
a project of the USA-NPN
www.usanpn.org
Outline
• Introduction to USA-NPN
• Core functions
• Web-based tools and services
• Phenology monitoring methods
• Nature's Notebook
• Field adventure!
• Break-out groups– Research– Management and decision-support– Education and outreach
Outline
• Introduction to USA-NPN
• Core functions
• Web-based tools and services
• Phenology monitoring methods
• Nature's Notebook
• Field adventure!
• Break-out groups– Research– Management and decision-support– Education and outreach
• Extra slides below here.
• Standardized, vetted, transparent definitions
• Species descriptions & profiles
• Clear data entry interface
• Absence data + sampling intensity, method, effort
• Site, organism and observation level metadata
• Training materials and user support
Quality Assurance