The first cuckoo in winter: climate change and citizen science
The first cuckoo in winter: climate change and citizen science
The first cuckoo in winter: climate change and citizen science
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Longest biological data set <strong>in</strong> Brita<strong>in</strong><br />
• 1736 Robert Marsham ‘Indications of Spr<strong>in</strong>g’ – for 62 years<br />
• 1875-1947 Royal Meteorological Society coord<strong>in</strong>ated<br />
national network (155 observers <strong>in</strong> 1899)<br />
• Individual recorders provide valuable data <strong>in</strong> the gap<br />
• 1998 Phenology Network revived<br />
• 2000 Jo<strong>in</strong>ed with Woodl<strong>and</strong> Trust<br />
• 2005 Website starts l<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g to <strong>climate</strong> <strong>change</strong> discourse<br />
(Kyoto, disappear<strong>in</strong>g arctic ice)<br />
• Now > 24 000 members (1/2 on-l<strong>in</strong>e)<br />
• 2005 L<strong>in</strong>ked to BBC for Spr<strong>in</strong>gwatch / Autumnwatch<br />
• More than 100 000 people contributed 200 000<br />
observations <strong>in</strong> 2005<br />
• 2007 Renamed ‘Natures Calendar’<br />
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