Researchers at UW Madison are predicting that early springs could become permanent in the face of climate change. The study uses the Extended Spring Indices, which were created based on historic cloned lilac data housed in the National Phenology Database. Implications of early springs include mismatch between animals and the plants on which they depend, as well as "false springs" that may cause extensive damange to plant growth inlcuding agricultural crops.
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New study predicting permanent early spring uses USA-NPN's Spring IndicesWednesday, October 14, 2015
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Federal Citizen Science Toolkit highlighting Nature's Notebook featured on USGS's Top StoryWednesday, September 30, 2015
The USGS's Science Features Top Story gives a compilation of resources and links related to the release of the Federal Crowdsourcing & Citizen Science Toolkit, the memo on the Toolkit from Jon Holdren, press covereage, and more. Top Story also focuses on the USGS use cases, including the USA-NPN's Nature's Notebook plant and animal observaiton program.
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USA-NPN HIGHLIGHTED IN WHITE HOUSE'S CITIZEN SCIENCE AND CROWDSOURCING FORUMWednesday, September 30, 2015
The US Government released today the Federal Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Toolkit to assist Federal agencies to design, carry out and manage these projects. This Toolkit, along with John Holdren's Memo to Executive Departments and Agencies, highlight USA-NPN's Nature's Notebook plant and animal phenology observation program as an example of the great benefit of citizen science.
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USA-NPN highlighted in PBS's KQED blogMonday, August 3, 2015
USA-NPN's Nature's Notebook was recently featured in a blog post from San Francisco's KQED, a member station of PBS. Also highlighted was the California Phenology Project and its recent Ecosphere paper which analyzes data from four of the species studied during the Project.
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USA-NPN's Spring Indices Featured on new Whenology websiteFriday, July 10, 2015
The USA-NPN's Gridded Spring Indices, developed in partnership with Cornell University using long-term lilac data from the National Phenology Databse, are highlighted in the new website Whenology. The website uses dynamic visualizations to show how the timing of plant and animal phenology is changing.