Phenology

Flight plans: Historic records to shed light on global warming, migration (The Standard-Times)

11 Jul 2008

Field notes from a New Bedford woman in 1922 are among six million bird phenology records being used in a migration history project at the U.S. Geological Survey.

Discover wild edible plants (The Burlington Free Press)

8 Jul 2008

If you're hoping to enjoy wild plants from an edible angle, you'll want to pay attention to their cycles of growth and how weather and other factors can impact them.

Cornell's Project Budbreak encourages citizens to study local effects of climate change (Cornell News Service)

4 Jul 2008

For most people, climate change seems an intractable problem, involving such distant issues as melting Arctic ice and threatened polar bears. But now, concerned citizens can get involved by studying the effects of global warming on plants in their own backyards.