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Wow, 2014 has almost come to a close! I hope your year is concluding well, and you have a bit of time to reflect on your hopes and goals for the coming year. We have a lot of great stuff in the pipeline that we'll be unveiling early next year, so I'm looking forward to January!
Have you heard about President Obama's new Climate Education and Literacy Initiative? A recent Office of Science and Technology Policy fact sheet described several projects that are connecting "American students and citizens with the best available science-based information about climate change." Nature's Notebook was among the projects highlighted!
I realized after our last Partners newsletter went out that I accidentally added some email addresses. If that happened to you and you do not wish to receive these messages, I sincerely apologize. You can manage your USA-NPN newsletter subscriptions by clicking "Update Profile/Email Address" in the footer of this message. Please know we create these newsletters with the best intentions in mind, and never intend to send unwanted email! And of course we will never share your email address with anyone else.
Happy holidays! We look forward to working together in 2015!
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What's new at Nature's Notebook and USA-NPN
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 Who uses
Nature's Notebook,
and why?
Organizations embark on tracking plant and animal phenology for a wide diversity of reasons. What are these reasons? Learn more using the new
tool on the USA-NPN website.
Would you like your organization to be represented? Send me an email!
View the Tool �
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 Summarized phenology data now available!
Have you ever tried to download your observation data in spreadsheet form, and then been at a loss as to what to do next? For the most part, what is of interest is when flowering, leafing, migrating, and so on started and ended, and how long it lasted.
Now available: summarized Nature's Notebook data, which provides this information! Using the Data Download Tool, you can now obtain the first and last dates that phenophases were recorded on your individual organisms in each year, plus lots more.
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Recent happenings in the field of phenology
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Tucson community celebrates phenology!
The second annual Phenology Days event was celebrated along the Tucson Phenology Trail in early October, and engaged hundreds of community members.
Twelve organizations hosted the events during the week of September 27th- October 4th demonstrating ties between phenology and natural resource outreach. Seventeen events included activities for youth and adults, a lecture series, poetry and art related to phenology, hikes and walks, plantings, and more.
Think about hosting a Phenology Week event in your community next year! Let us know if we can help. We'll be doing it again next year!
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Especially for Local Phenology Leaders
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Sign templates coming soon
Several of you have shared that you are establishing marked phenology walks or trails at your site, and would like help creating signage for the marked plants. We are currently developing sign templates with our graphic designer, and expect to have these available for the spring season.
Let me know if you'd like to provide feedback on early drafts!
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We're pinning ideas for plant tags and more!
Check out our new Pinterest boards... we're using them to track ways to tag your plants, phenology walk and trail ideas, trail sign options, workshop materials, general phenology pictures, and more.
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More ways to get involved
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 Upcoming meetings - American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. San Francisco, CA, Dec 15-19, 2014. Next week! Our executive director, Jake Weltzin, our assistant director, Alyssa Rosemartin, and our assistant scientist, Kathryn Gerst, will all be in attendance. Dates and times of their presentations
- Citizen Science 2015 Conference. Hosted by the Citizen Science Association, San Jose, CA, Feb 11-12, 2015.
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Theresa Crimmins
Partnerships & Outreach Coordinator
520-622-0363
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LoriAnne Barnett
Education Coordinator
520-622-0363
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