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Jake F. Weltzin
United States Geological Survey
www.usanpn.org
USA National Phenology Network
Integrating phenology data across spatial and temporal scales
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
• 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
• 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
Native American
Tribes
Native American
Tribes
ScientistsScientistsSpecializedNetworks
SpecializedNetworks
PublicAgencies
PublicAgencies
NGOsNGOs
Educators
Educators
CitizenScientists
CitizenScientists National
Coordinating Office
Information ManagementMonitoring Programs
CommunicationsResource ManagersResource Managers
Services for stakeholders
• Beginning to advanced protocols
• Public, managers & scientists
• 215 specified species
• Status monitoring
• Sample intensity + absence data
Plant 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
Animal Phenology Monitoring System
• 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)
Information management
Decision- support
Research
Education
Search
Synthesis
Visualizations
Work platform
Datasets
Products
NCO Information Management SystemData
Contemp-orary
Legacy
Partners
Ancillary
Data curation
User interface
Databases
National Phenology Network
Metadata
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
www.usanpn.org
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