I was looking for data at the USGS site when I came across a link to a new National Phenology Network.It's about time that we started tracing the so-called "Pulses of our Planet." This will be a massive amount of information.
Like many newer technologies being used in natural sciences and land management, this type of information has been collected by amateurs (Maine Nature News) and professionals alike over the past few centuries (going back to Franklin, Thoreau and Leopold) and perhaps millenia. Just as tools in GIS technology developed to automate tasks like overlaying maps over a light-table or a window, this is hopefully the start of a large dataset that we can all use to look at the changes in our natural world.
A citizen-input site started last year out of the project's working group, Project Budburst. This year they hope to expand this.
So, this spring, watch the buds burst along with scientists!
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