Jake F. Weltzin

US Geological Survey

www.usanpn.org

Role of the

USA National Phenology Network

Tools and opportunities

Outline

• Introduction to USA-NPN

• Web-based tools and services

• Phenology monitoring: Nature's Notebook

• Partnerships

• A national ecological 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

• 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

Outline

• Introduction to USA-NPN

• Web-based tools and services

• Phenology monitoring: Nature's Notebook

• Partnerships

A national phenology monitoring system

www.usanpn.org/how-observe

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

Training resources

www.usanpn.org/resources/resources

Partnership tool

www.usanpn.org/participate/new-partners

Outline

• Introduction to USA-NPN

• Web-based tools and services

• Phenology monitoring: Nature's Notebook

• Partnerships

• Go to www.usanpn.org· 258 plant species· 58 animal species· Status monitoring· Core protocols

• 98 animal + 300 plant spp.

• User profiles

• Shared sites

a project of the USA-NPN

Coming soon

Metadata: method used, effort reporting, condition of site & organism

George Melendez Wright Student Travel Scholarship RecipientsMonitoring at JELA - Barataria Preserve, 3/13/11

www.usanpn.org/results/data

Real-time data now available

http://www.usanpn.org/results/visualizations

Real-time visualization tools

Nationally distributed observation sites

3160 observers at 4412 sites observing 5459 organisms418731 records from 76304 observations 2/11

Integration with climatological data

Species-specific queries and animations

Data exploration and comparison

Outline

• Introduction to USA-NPN

• Web-based tools and services

• Phenology monitoring: Nature's Notebook

• Partnerships

Key sponsors and collaborators…

The Great Sunflower Project

John GrossDOI Conf. on the Environ. 2010

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"Affinity Session"

Phenology monitoring in protected areas:

Networking to improve communication, coordination and

collaboration

Session 88 Tuesday, 4-6 pm