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The RCN & the USA-NPN
Founding & Current Status
Jake F. Weltzin
United States Geological Survey
Mark D. Schwartz
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
www.usanpn.org
USA-NPN Development History
Date
Event
1956-1961
Regional lilac networks founded across USA
1987
Schwartz takes charge of eastern lilac network
1994
Schwartz (1994) proposes national network concept
February 2002
Schwartz starts building USA-NPN infrastructure
November 2004
Betancourt and Schwartz begin discussion
December 2004
Prototype USA-NPN web page launched
August 2005
First USA-NPN Planning Workshop (Tucson, AZ)
March 2006
USA-NPN Implementation Team Meeting (Tucson)
August-September 2006
USGS and Univ. of Arizona approved Nat. Coord. Office plan
October 2006
Second USA-NPN Planning Workshop (Milwaukee, WI)
December 2006
RCN (Res. Coord. Network, $500K/5 years) funded by NSF
January 2007
USA-NPN Nat. Coord. Office opened and staffed in Tucson
August 2007
First USA-NPN RCN Annual Meeting (Milwaukee)
USA-NPN Development History
Date
Event
August 2007
Executive Director Jake Weltzin assumes position
January 2008
Founding Board of Directors (BOD) meeting (Tucson)
May 2008
New web pages launched for initial testing
September 2008
Second USA-NPN RCN Annual Meeting (Milwaukee)
September 2008
USA-NPN Constitution approved by Founding BOD
January 2009
Constitutional Board of Directors take office
February 2009
Expanded USA-NPN Plant Phenology Program launched
March 2009
Data ingest module added to USA-NPN web pages
May 2009
Cloned lilacs available for direct sale to the public
July 2009
USA-NPN registered observers reach 2500 nationwide
October 2009
Third USA-NPN RCN Annual Meeting (Milwaukee)
February 2010
Planned launch of USA-NPN Animal Phenology Program
“Phenology…is perhaps the simplest process in
which to track changes in the ecology of species
in response to climate change.” (IPCC 2007)
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
Core functions
• Create a scientifically based phenology network with broad
participation
• Create and maintain a national phenology information
management system
• Develop and promote standardized monitoring protocols
• Integrate observations of plants, animals & landscapes
across space & time
• Create decision support tools for application of phenology
data
NPN in a nutshell
• National-scale science and monitoring initiative
• Agencies, NGOs, academia, the public
• Integrates with other science/monitoring networks
• Target: 100,000 observation locations
• Plants + animals; contemporary + legacy data
• Education & outreach
• Integration across spatial and temporal scales
• Business to Business + Business to Customer
Key sponsors and collaborators…
Services for stakeholders
Scientists
Citizen
Scientist
s
Native
American
Tribes
Specialized
Networks
National
Coordinating Office
NGOs
Information Management
Monitoring Programs
Communications
Resource
Managers
Public
Agencies
Educator
s
Plant Phenology Monitoring System
• Beginning to
advanced protocols
• Public, managers &
scientists
• 215 specified species
• Status monitoring
• Sample intensity +
absence data
Animal Phenology Monitoring System
• 158 species selected
according to a priori criteria
• 120 expert reviewers
• Standardized monitoring
protocols
• Independent review workshop
• 2010 as on-line beta
Land-surface Phenology Program
• Scaling of in-situ observations
• Validation of remote imagery
• Development of standards
2005 Start of Season
(SOS)
• Information & data clearinghouse
• Research directions and
priorities
Strategic Plan Elements
• Create a National Phenology Information Management System
• Create a National Phenology Monitoring System
• Develop Partnerships
• Facilitate Outreach and Education
• Facilitate Research
• Facilitate Decision Support
Information management
USA National Phenology Network
NCO Information Management System
Data
Contemporary
User interface
Data curation
Products
Databases
Search
Legacy
Synthesis
Partners
Ancillary
Visualizations
Metadata
Decisionsupport
Education
Work platform
Research
Datasets
Role of NCO @ RCN and NPA
• RCN meeting support
• RCN web-page (www.usanpn.org/?q=rcn-2009)
• Agenda
• Logistics
• Products
• Webinars
• Facilitate NPA
• Information management
• Tools
• Communications
• Science expertise
• Programmatic planning/development (you talk, we listen)