1. Jake F. Weltzin United States Geological Survey www.usanpn.org USA National Phenology Network Integrating phenology data across spatial and temporal scales

2. 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

3. 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 Core functions

4. 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 NPN in a nutshell

5. Key sponsors and collaborators…

6. Native American Tribes Scientists Specialized Networks Specialized Networks Public Agencies Public Agencies NGOs Educator s Citizen Scientist s Citizen Scientist s National Coordinating Office Information Management Monitoring Programs Communications Resource Managers Services for stakeholders

7. Beginning to advanced protocols Public, managers & scientists 215 specified species Status monitoring Sample intensity + absence data Plant Phenology Monitoring System

8. 158 species selected according to a priori criteria 120 expert reviewers Standardized monitoring protocols Independent review workshop 2010 as on-line beta Animal Phenology Monitoring System

9. Scaling of in-situ observations Validation of remote imagery Development of standards Information & data clearinghouse Research directions and priorities Land-surface Phenology Program 2005 Start of Season (SOS)

10. Information management Decision- support Research Education Search Synthesis Visualizations Work platform Datasets Products NCO Information Management System Data Contemp- orary Legacy Partners Ancillary Data curation User interface Databases National Phenology Network Metadata

11. We are live today! We are a distributed, bottoms-up national network Broad variety of users/audiences Business to business AND business to consumer Large number of contributing stations Multiple charges: education/outreach, research, decision-support Interaction with other large networks (CEN, NCCRC, NPS I & M, … ) Focus Key challenges to data integration What we are…

12. Incredibly complex nature of the data (not rainfall!) real-time (contemporary) repeated (different variables through time) one-off, or multiple observers dynamic standard protocols customization of methodologies images Discovery and ingestion of legacy datasets large, un-digitized, simple (data rich) small, complex (metadata rich) Key challenges to data integration Our data…

13. Metadata standards Integration of contemporary and legacy phenology datasets Integration of external supporting data Web services Internal (visualization, synthesis products) External users) Scaling (organismal to digital number) Provenance QA/QC of all data Long-term nature of data (curation) Security Key challenges to data integration Our data, cont…

14. Dynamic landscapes Administrative IM Scientific Service oriented architecture Resource constraints – no dedicated $ for IM Structural constraints – location and ‘.org” Tendency towards project-centric model Key challenges to data integration Constraints…

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