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Nature’s Rhythms: Using Nature’s Notebook for Environmental Change

Explore phenology to track seasonal changes and understand environmental shifts. Learn about recording, citizen science, and long-term monitoring. Discover resources to get started in this interactive workshop.

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Nature’s Rhythms: Using Nature’s Notebook for Environmental Change

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  1. Nature’s rhythms: Using Nature’s Notebookto track seasonal & long term environmental change September 25, 2015 LoriAnne Barnett Education Coordinator

  2. Opening Activity LIFE CYCLE BINGO!

  3. Objectives of today’s workshop: • Define phenology and explain its applicabilityto understanding changes in the natural world • Understand the importance of record-keeping. • Understand long-term phenology monitoring. • Apply citizen science and phenology! • Learn where to find resources to get started.

  4. phRenology – a pseudoscience focused on measurements of the human skull and size of the brain phOnology – a branch of linguistics concerned with the organization of sounds in language Just to be clear…

  5. Activity 2 What do I KNOW about PHENOLOGY?! What do I WANT TO KNOW? THINK, PAIR, SHARE 5 minutes

  6. http://ed.ted.com/lessons/phenology-and-nature-s-shifting-rhythms-regina-brinkerhttp://ed.ted.com/lessons/phenology-and-nature-s-shifting-rhythms-regina-brinker

  7. PHENOLOGY

  8. What is phenology? • The science of the seasons • Blooms and buds • Hibernation, migration, emergence • Easy to observe Photo credit: P. Warren …it is the study of the timing of recurring plant and animal life-cycle stages, or phenophases, and their relationship to environmental conditions. Photo credit: L. Barnett

  9. Who observes phenology? • Scientists • Gardeners/Agriculturists • Land managers • Educators • Youth Photo credit: P. Warren Photo credit: S. Schaffer Photo credit: C. Enquist

  10. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

  11. Primary goal Create a standardized, long-term dataset for use in multiple types of research. Mission Make phenology data, models and related information available. Encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to observe and record phenology. Understand how species and landscapesare responding to climate change. Photo credit: C. Enquist

  12. Photo credit: L. Romano

  13. PLANT Flowers Leaves Fruits Observable life cycle events or PHENOPHASES ANIMAL >> Mammal, Bird, Snake, Insect Reproduction Activity Development Method

  14. So What?!? Why are the timing of life-cycle events important? • SEASONAL CHANGE • Species interrelations Shifting weather and climate affect all of these

  15. Vegetable Gardening "Bagatelle potager02" by Spedona (Spedona) - Cliché personnel - own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

  16. Understanding outdoor recreation schedules • Feeding times • Following brackish waters • Water temperature • Spawning times related to temp - 55° - 68° F in Chesapeake Bay. April peak? Chesapeake Bay Spring Season for Striped Bass = May 16 – June 16 Photo credit: E. Stemmy

  17. Land management decisions Image credit: John McColgan–U.S. Department of Agriculture. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia

  18. Observations RECORD KEEPING

  19. Using nature as a guide Tradition and Lore February – Full Worm Moon November -Beaver Moon Photo credit: B. Powell September – Harvest Moon May – Full Flower Moon “Tribes kept track of seasons by giving distinct names to each recurring full moon.” http://www.farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-names/ Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons unless otherwise noted Photo credit: L. Barnett

  20. Powell Thoreau Jefferson

  21. Photo credit: Monticello Garden re-created

  22. Cloned lilac program Photo credit: L. Barnett Historic Lilac Network Established in the 1950s Santa Rita Experimental Range, Green Valley, AZ Photo credit: L. Barnett

  23. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons Photo Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Southeast Region, via Wikimedia Commons Photo credit: L. Barnett

  24. David Bertelsen, Naturalist

  25. Finger Rock – Santa Catalina Mtns, Tucson Finger Rock Trail, Santa Catalina MtnsTucson, AZ What’s Phenology Courtesy: T.M. Crimmins

  26. The Finger Rock Dataset Collected by a single individual 1984-present 1480+ round-trip hikes (10 miles), 4158’ elevation gain Approximately weekly 587 flowering plant taxa (group of species) 155K+ records of plant flowering. 73,000 vertebrate records Photo credit: B. Wilder

  27. Acer rubrum(red maple);Photo credit: D. Hartel Observing the same individual through the seasons

  28. Acer rubrum(red maple);Photo credit: D. Hartel Observing the same individual through the seasons

  29. ECOLOGY & PHENOLOGY

  30. Climate is what you expect… …weather is what you get. -Mark Twain Climate Long-term average of daily weather in a given area. Weather Day-to-day changes in the Earth’s atmosphere. It is about… …time

  31. Distribution Abiotic Ecology Climate Biotic Abundance

  32. BIOMES –World’s Major Communities Classified by major vegetation, adaptations to environment Optimum conditions= NICHE Desert Aquatic Forest Grassland Tundra

  33. So What?!? Why is climate important to ecology? Climate drives what occurs where, what lives where, and how those species respond to their environment. Ecology

  34. PHENOLOGY CLIMATE CHANGE

  35. Sea level rise 1-2 inches per decade Frequent and severe floods and drought https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake_Bay How Will Climate Change Affect the Mid-Atlantic Region? Birds winter ranges will change – how? Where? Reduction in biodiversity oaspub.epa.gov/eims/eimscomm.getfile?p_download_id=4011

  36. Invasive species that thrive in warmer and wetter environments could displace beneficial Mid-Atlantic species and create pest control problems.

  37. English Oak Winter Moth Pied Flycatcher • Phenology and Climate Change • Research, spring timing and range • A three-way mismatch EARLIER EARLIER Both et al. 2006 Nature SAME TIME EACH YEAR

  38. www.globalchange.gov

  39. So What?!? Why is a changing climate problematic? • CHANGES in: • Arrival, birth, feeding • Shifting range boundaries Changing morphology • Extirpation or Extinction • Economic impacts Ecology http://www.ipcc.ch/

  40. What content and skills might PHENOLOGY teach? https://www.usanpn.org/education

  41. PHENOLOGY

  42. What can PHENOLOGY teach: • English and Language Arts • Social Studies: History, Cultural Studies, and Geography • Healthy Living and Physical Education • Foreign and Native Languages Arts such as music, theater, and visual arts https://www.usanpn.org/education

  43. https://www.usanpn.org/education

  44. Have a PLAN

  45. Make it LONG TERM YEAR 1 YEAR 2 YEAR 3 YEAR 4 + Intro Intro Intro Intro Monitoring Monitoring Monitoring Analysis Analysis Analysis

  46. Observations SHARED FOR SCIENCE

  47. Citizen science … scientific research conducted, in whole or in part, by amateurs or nonprofessionals public participation in scientific research (also known as) crowd science, crowd-sourced science, or networked science Quercusalba, Q. falcata, D. Hartel

  48. www.scistarter.com

  49. ~6,200 active observers • ~7,700 active sites • 6.3+ records • Lilac data from 1956 • 1016 taxa from 2009

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