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AN: B51A-0064    [Abstracts]
TI: The Northeast Phenology Network: A Regional Coordinating Group of the National Phenology Network
AU: * McNeil, B
EM: bmcneil@wisc.edu
AF: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology Russell Labs 1630 Linden Ave., Madison, WI 53706, United States
AU: Denny, E
EM: ellen.denny@yale.edu
AF: University of New Hampshire, US Forest Service 271 Mast Rd., Durham, NH 03824, United States
AB: Recent studies conducted in northeastern North America reveal an overall pattern of increasing growing season length in response to recent warming trends, and also highlight considerable, and poorly understood, spatial variability in the species-level and land surface phenologies of the region's predominately forested ecosystems. To obtain the spatially-explicit understanding of phenology that is necessary for predicting the ecosystem-level impacts of climate change and climate variability in this region, we formed the Northeast Phenology Network (NEPN) as the first regional coordinating group of the National Phenology Network (NPN). This presentation will report the organizational and preliminary scientific progress made by the NEPN through its first workshop held in November 2007 with over 35 of the region's phenology researchers and representatives from citizen-science groups. We report progress made toward four immediate goals of the NEPN: (1) seeking out and inviting the region's scientific and citizen science groups to contribute new and archived phenological measurements to the NPN (2) vetting protocols for phenology measurements in the region, (3) developing region-specific phenology monitoring training materials and "train the trainer" workshops, and (4) preparing scientific syntheses of the multiple forms of phenological data (e.g. satellite and field) collected in the region.
DE: 0428 Carbon cycling (4806)
DE: 0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics (4815)
DE: 0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling (4845, 4850)
DE: 0480 Remote sensing
SC: Biogeosciences [B]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting