Transcript TWS Annual Meeting 2010 Workshop

The USA National Phenology Network
A Practical Tool for Conservation and
Education in the Face of Climate Change
Jake F. Weltzin
US Geological Survey
Alyssa Rosemartin
University of Arizona
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
“Phenology…is perhaps the simplest process in
which to track changes in the ecology of species
in response to climate change.” (IPCC 2007)
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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
USA-NPN in a nutshell
• 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
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
Core functions
• 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
Information management
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
Partnerships and services
Scientists
Citizen
Scientists
Native
American
Tribes
Specialized
Networks
National
Coordinating Office
Information Management
Monitoring Programs
Communications
Public
Agencies
Educators
NGOs
Resource
Managers
Science and Research
Increasing
Populations & Distributions
Predicting vulnerability,
invasions and distributions
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Decreasing
Change in phenology
Willis et al. 2008 PNAS
Moller et al. 2008 PNAS
Willis et al. 2010 PLOS Biology
Hulme 2010 New Phyt.
Applications and decision-support tools
• Science
• Predictive services
• Health
• Resource mgmt
• Conservation
• Agriculture
• Ecosystem services
• Recreation
Education and
outreach for K-Gray
Ross Franklin, AP
Steve Ringman, The Seattle Times
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
Data set
registry tool
www.usanpn.org/node/add/ct-dataset
Phenology dataset search tool
www.usanpn.org/results/dataset-list
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
Phenology Monitoring Methods
Activity
Reproduction
Event
Status
Status &
Abundance
Day of year
Development
Alternate Monitoring Methods
e.g., frog-calling
• 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?
Event vs Status Monitoring
e.g., frog calling
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Day of year
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 project of the USA-NPN
• 253+ plant species
• 58+ animal species
• Core status monitoring
protocols
• Species on demand
• Abundance reporting
• User profiles
Participants across the
nation
Cumulative
Data reporting in 2010 similar to 2009
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3K participants; website: 67K visitors, 100K visits, 500K pageviews
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• 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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Site Selection Guidelines
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Convenience
Representative location
Uniform habitat
Appropriate size
Proper permission
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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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• 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
Compare phenophases to what you observe.
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• 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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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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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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Robin
Black-capped chickadee
Bumblebee
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American robin
My front yard
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Bumblebee
My front yard
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Mayapple
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Mayapple-front yard
Mayapple
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Observing animals
• Walking a single line
through site
• Stationary at a single
point
• Area search: multiple
passes through site
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a project of the USA-NPN
• Identify & Register a Site
• Select Plants & Animals
– Animal Checklist
– Register Individual Plants
• Make Observations in the Field
• Submit Observations Online
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.
Quality Assurance
• 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