The Phenology Handbook - USA National Phenology Network

Acknowledgments
Since the Spring of 2007 it has been our great pleasure to work with a wide variety of students, educators, scientists,
and nature enthusiasts while developing the Phenology Stewardship Program at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. We would like to express our gratitude to those who have contributed (and who are currently contributing)
time and energy for field observations, classroom implementation, and community outreach. We thank
the Phenology Stewards (UCSB undergraduates) who have helped to collect plant and avian phenological data at
UCSB’s Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve and to develop the methodologies and protocols that are presented in this
handbook. Special thanks to the Phenology Stewardship graphic design team who helped develop this handbook.
We also thank Scott Bull, the UCSB Coastal Fund, and the students of UCSB for providing funding for the development
of the Phenology Stewardship Program at UCSB.
We would like to thank those in the Santa Barbara region who are implementing phenology education and engaging
students to participate in Project Budburst and the USA National Phenology Network, including:
• Dr. Jennifer Thorsch and UCSB’s Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER), as
well as the teachers associated with CCBER’s “Kids In Nature” environmental education program;
• the “teachers in training” in the Teacher Education Program at UCSB’s Gevirtz School of Graduate Education
who work in K-12 schools throughout Santa Barbara;
• docents at natural reserves and botanic gardens, including Coal Oil Point, Sedgwick, Arroyo Hondo, Rancho
Santa Ana, Carpenteria Salt Marsh, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Lotusland Botanic Garden; and
• Kate Eschelbach, education & outreach specialist with the Ventura office of the US Fish & Wildlife Service,
who has been instrumental in expanding our phenology science & education efforts in Southern California.
We would also like to express our gratitude to the consortium of scientists and educators associated with the USA
National Phenology Network, and especially to our colleagues in the NPN’s Education, Citizen Science, and Outreach
working group. With operational support from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Reserach and
with funding from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the National Science Foundation, ESRI, and the National
Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the ECSO working group launched Project Budburst in the Spring of 2007.
This Phenology Handbook is a work in progress, and will be updated continually through the summer and fall of
2009. We plan to increase the scope of the handbook by including a chapter that describes methods for using the
herbarium to study historical phenology, as well as more species descriptions in the Phenology Field Guide.
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Brian P Haggerty, M.S.
Susan J Mazer, PhD
Santa Barbara, California
Summer, 2009