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The RCN & the USA-NPN Founding & Current Status Jake F. Weltzin United States Geological Survey Mark D. Schwartz University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee www.usanpn.org USA-NPN Development History Date Event 1956-1961 Regional lilac networks founded across USA 1987 Schwartz takes charge of eastern lilac network 1994 Schwartz (1994) proposes national network concept February 2002 Schwartz starts building USA-NPN infrastructure November 2004 Betancourt and Schwartz begin discussion December 2004 Prototype USA-NPN web page launched August 2005 First USA-NPN Planning Workshop (Tucson, AZ) March 2006 USA-NPN Implementation Team Meeting (Tucson) August-September 2006 USGS and Univ. of Arizona approved Nat. Coord. Office plan October 2006 Second USA-NPN Planning Workshop (Milwaukee, WI) December 2006 RCN (Res. Coord. Network, $500K/5 years) funded by NSF January 2007 USA-NPN Nat. Coord. Office opened and staffed in Tucson August 2007 First USA-NPN RCN Annual Meeting (Milwaukee) USA-NPN Development History Date Event August 2007 Executive Director Jake Weltzin assumes position January 2008 Founding Board of Directors (BOD) meeting (Tucson) May 2008 New web pages launched for initial testing September 2008 Second USA-NPN RCN Annual Meeting (Milwaukee) September 2008 USA-NPN Constitution approved by Founding BOD January 2009 Constitutional Board of Directors take office February 2009 Expanded USA-NPN Plant Phenology Program launched March 2009 Data ingest module added to USA-NPN web pages May 2009 Cloned lilacs available for direct sale to the public July 2009 USA-NPN registered observers reach 2500 nationwide October 2009 Third USA-NPN RCN Annual Meeting (Milwaukee) February 2010 Planned launch of USA-NPN Animal Phenology Program “Phenology…is perhaps the simplest process in which to track changes in the ecology of species in response to climate change.” (IPCC 2007) 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 Core functions • Create a scientifically based phenology network with broad participation • Create and maintain a national phenology information management system • Develop and promote standardized monitoring protocols • Integrate observations of plants, animals & landscapes across space & time • Create decision support tools for application of phenology data NPN in a nutshell • National-scale science and monitoring initiative • Agencies, NGOs, academia, the public • Integrates with other science/monitoring networks • Target: 100,000 observation locations • Plants + animals; contemporary + legacy data • Education & outreach • Integration across spatial and temporal scales • Business to Business + Business to Customer Key sponsors and collaborators… Services for stakeholders Scientists Citizen Scientist s Native American Tribes Specialized Networks National Coordinating Office NGOs Information Management Monitoring Programs Communications Resource Managers Public Agencies Educator s Plant Phenology Monitoring System • Beginning to advanced protocols • Public, managers & scientists • 215 specified species • Status monitoring • Sample intensity + absence data Animal Phenology Monitoring System • 158 species selected according to a priori criteria • 120 expert reviewers • Standardized monitoring protocols • Independent review workshop • 2010 as on-line beta Land-surface Phenology Program • Scaling of in-situ observations • Validation of remote imagery • Development of standards 2005 Start of Season (SOS) • Information & data clearinghouse • Research directions and priorities Strategic Plan Elements • Create a National Phenology Information Management System • Create a National Phenology Monitoring System • Develop Partnerships • Facilitate Outreach and Education • Facilitate Research • Facilitate Decision Support Information management USA 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 Role of NCO @ RCN and NPA • RCN meeting support • RCN web-page (www.usanpn.org/?q=rcn-2009) • Agenda • Logistics • Products • Webinars • Facilitate NPA • Information management • Tools • Communications • Science expertise • Programmatic planning/development (you talk, we listen)