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

2. LIFE CYCLE BINGO! Opening Activity

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

4. Objectives for the follow-up workshop on October 24 @9:00 am:  Demonstrate how to select a physical site for monitoring phenology  Demonstrate how to select plants and animals for monitoring.  Demonstrate how to make high-quality observations on phenophases based on USA-NPN protocols.  Apply phenology!

5. Just to be clear… 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

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

7. PHENOLOGY

8. What is phenology? The science of the seasons Blooms and buds Hibernation, migration, emergence Easy to observe Photo credit: L. Barnett …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: P. Warren

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

10. U NDERSTAND HOW SPECIES AND LANDSCAPES ARE RESPONDING TO CLIMATE CHANGE. 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. Photo credit: C. Enquist

11. Photo credit: L. Romano

13. Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons

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

15. PLANT LIFE CYCLE GREEN GROWTH Requires Optimum Conditions FLOWER SET SEED

16. American kestrel Falco sparverius ©Wikimedia Commons Active

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

18. Why are the timing of life-cycle events important? SEASONAL CHANGE Species interrelations Shifting weather and climate affect all of these

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

20. Photo credit: E. Stemmy 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 Understanding outdoor recreation schedules

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

22. Observations RECORD KEEPING

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

24. Jefferson Powell Thoreau

25. Garden re-created Photo credit: Monticello

26. Cloned lilac program H ISTORIC L ILAC N ETWORK E STABLISHED IN THE 1950 S S ANTA R ITA E XPERIMENTAL R ANGE, G REEN V ALLEY, AZ Photo credit: L. Barnett

27. David Bertelsen, Naturalist

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

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

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

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

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

33. INTRODUCTION TO OBSERVATION 45 minutes Activity 3

34. ECOLOGY & PHENOLOGY

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

36. Distribution Abiotic Biotic Abundance

37. http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/phzmweb/ Annual average MINIMUM temperatures – 30 years

38. Climate Zones for the West Also account for: Latitude Hills and Valleys Elevation Ocean influence (humidity) Continental air Precipitation Microclimates www.sunset.com/garden/climate-zones/

39. Mile 1 Mile 5 Mile 4 Mile 3 Mile 2 Desert scrub Scrub grassland Oak woodland Oak-pine woodland Pine forest 800 mm 300 mm 10 ºC 20 ºC Annual Average Precipitation Annual Average Temperature Elevation-Veg-Climate gradient

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

41. http://alliance.la.asu.edu/maps/AZ_biomes_web.pdf Life Zones

42. Why is climate important to ecology? Climate drives what occurs where, what lives where, and how those species respond to their environment.

43. PHENOLOGY CLIMATE CHANGE

44. Earlier Bloom Times Shrubs in the Sonoran Desert Bloomed 10-41 days earlier between 1841 and 2004 http://www.southwestclimatechange.org/impacts/land/phenology Bowers, J. E., Southwestern Naturalist. 2007.

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

47. www.globalchange.gov

48. http://nca2014.globalchange.gov

49. http://www.epa.gov/sciencematters/climatechange/ccwatershed.htm

50. CHANGES in: Arrival, birth, feeding Shifting range boundaries Changing morphology Extirpation or Extinction Economic impacts http://www.ipcc.ch/

51. Observations SHARED FOR SCIENCE

52. 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 Quercus alba, Q. falcata, D. Hartel

53. Photo credit: L. Romano

54. ~5,700 active observers ~7,500 active sites 5.9M+ records Lilac data from 1956 1016 taxa from 2009

56. Reproduction Development Method Activity ANIMAL  Active individuals  Feeding  Male combat  Mating  Young individuals  Dead individuals  Individuals at a feeding station Flowers Fruits Leaves  Young leaves  Leaves  Colored leaves  Flowers or flower buds  Open flowers  Ripe fruits  Recent seed or fruit drop PLANT PHENOPHASES …How Many?

58. Leaves Flowers Fruits Velvet mesquite, Prosopis velutina Image credit: Patty Guertin

59. One or more open, fresh flowers are visible on the plant. Flowers are considered "open" when the reproductive parts (male stamens or female pistils) are visible between or within unfolded or open flower parts (petals, floral tubes or sepals). Do not include wilted or dried flowers. Do you see…open flowers? Velvet mesquite, Prosopis velutina Image credit: Patty Guertin

60. What percentage of all fresh flowers are open? Select the most appropriate bin Write the bin number on the line Less than 5% 5% - 24% 25% - 49% 50% - 74% 75% - 94% 95% or more Image credit: Patty Guertin

61. Acorn Woodpecker Photo from All About Birds

62. Breaking leaf buds Leaves Increasing leaf size Colored leaves Flowers or Flower Buds Open Flowers FruitsRipe Fruits Recent fruit or seed drop DECIDUOUS PLANT PHENOPHASES

64. Enter Observations Online Photo credit: S. Schaffer

65. You MUST have your account completely set up online first to use the mobile apps!

67. http://www.usanpn.org/data/visualizations

68. https://www.usanpn.org/results/data DATA DOWNLOAD

70. "Snowman on frozen lake" by Petritap - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons @ Wikimedia Commons. "Spring in Somerville, NJ - 2012 File 3" by Siddharth Mallya - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons @ Wikimedia Commons "Owoce wisni" by Nova - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons @ Wikimedia Commons By Hans [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons

71. 2012. Primack, R. B, Miller-Rushing, A.J 7 day average 61 years 2-3 week average 1999. Bradley, N.L., Leopold, C.A., Ross, J., Huffacker, W. Sandhill crane and geese

72. NEXT STEPS

73. Resources and upcoming events www.usanpn.org/nn/guidelines

74. Resources and upcoming events https://www.usanpn.org/nn/connect/project

75. Resources and upcoming events October 24 from 9:00 am until noon

76. Objectives for the follow-up workshop on October 24 @9:00 am:  Demonstrate how to select a physical site for monitoring phenology  Demonstrate how to select plants and animals for monitoring.  Demonstrate how to make observations on phenophases based on USA-NPN protocols.  Apply phenology!

77. What did I LEARN about PHENOLOGY? Closing Activity

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

79. Explore tagged plants and make observations outside 10 minutes Activity 4 – Time Permitting

80. Connect with USA-NPN… Become an observer Discover new tools and resources Visit a local phenology trail LoriAnne Barnett lorianne@usanpn.org www.facebook.com/USANPN www.pinterest.com/USANPN www.twitter.com/@loriannebarnett www.instagram/tucson_phenology_trail