Category Archives: Introductions

Excited to Join the Team!

Posted on January 12, 2016 by

Many of you may have seen my name in recent talk posts on the Season Spotter project website and wondered “who is this?”  I am a new addition to the Season Spotter research team and am very excited to be part … Continue reading →

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3 Unique Places, 3 Unique Fall Impressions

Posted on September 30, 2015 by

I am one of those people who anxiously awaits the changing of the seasons. Growing up in Wisconsin, I became accustomed to changes in temperature and vegetation with each of four very distinct seasons. Little did I know then that … Continue reading →

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The cameras on the top of the world

Posted on September 21, 2015 by

Greetings, Season Spotters! This is Don Aubrecht, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard. Now that you’ve learned how we get cameras above the canopy, you might be curious what sort of hardware we are using. After careful study and experimentation, we … Continue reading →

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Revolutionary and relevant

Posted on August 5, 2015 by

Phenology is the study of the timing of biological events. From butterfly migrations, to squirrel hibernation and springtime budburst, organisms take cues from their environment for when to begin different life stages. Temperature is one of the most important cues, … Continue reading →

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Phenology in Panama!

Posted on July 28, 2015 by

After a Boston winter spent sorting through canopy images from the Neotropics — clicking past magenta cecropica flowers and long green branches drooping into the water — it was incredible to see the ‘barrocolorado’ PhenoCam camera from the other end … Continue reading →

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Doing something about climate change

Posted on July 23, 2015 by

My name is Sandra Henderson and I am the Director of Citizen Science at the National Ecological Observatory Network in Boulder, Colorado. For the past 25 years or so, I have mostly been working climate change education projects and activities. … Continue reading →

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A brief history of the PhenoCam camera network

Posted on July 22, 2015 by

I’m Andrew Richardson and I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University. It was ten years ago that we first put a networked, digital camera – a “webcam” – on one of our … Continue reading →

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Welcome to Season Spotter!

Posted on July 21, 2015 by

We invite you to join us in understanding how changing climate affects plants across continents. Who are we? We’re a group of scientists and educators at Harvard University and the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON for short) who are interested … Continue reading →

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