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SPEAKER: Jake Weltzin, Ecologist, USGS; Director, USA National Phenology Network, Tucson, AZ
DATE: Wednesday, January 28, 2015
TIME: 3:00 ? 4:00 PM
LOCATION: Marley Building, Room 230
ABSTRACT:
The USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN; www.usanpn.org) serves science and society by promoting a broad understanding of plant and animal phenology and the relationships among phenological patterns and all aspects of environmental change. The National Phenology Database, maintained by the USA-NPN, is experiencing steady growth in the number of data records it houses; these data are now being used in a number of applications for science, conservation and resource management. The majority of the data in the database has been provided by volunteers, or ?citizen scientists,? participating in the USA-NPN national-scale, multi-taxa phenology observation program Nature?s Notebook. This presentation will describe the structure of the network, the nature of the dataset (now over 4.5 M records), and illustrate applications from a diversity of recently published studies as well as ongoing local- to continental-scale applications.