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From: Swati Sidhu <swati@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Jan 10, 2023 at 12:10 PM
Subject: Join Campus Phenology Network
To: YETI <meet.yeti@xxxxxxxxx>
Dear YETI team,
I request you to please circulate the following email on the mailing list.
Thank you.
Swati Sidhu
Project Manager, SeasonWatch
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Dear all,
Greetings from SeasonWatch <https://www.seasonwatch.in/>.
Do you live on a campus and have lots of trees around you? Do you enjoy
watching trees transform themselves as the seasons change?
Tree phenology is the study of how trees put out leaves, flowers and
fruits seasonally, a process linked intimately with the environment and
climate change. As concerned citizens, one way of understanding the impacts
of climate change is to systematically document the changes in tree
phenology across the country.
Would you like to be part of this all-India effort in its first year
between 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024? We are excited to invite you to join
the Campus Phenology Network, a nation-wide network of educational campuses
involved in monitoring tree phenology to understand seasonality and effects
of climate change on trees.
Join the Campus Phenology Network as a citizen scientist
<https://forms.gle/AHkyxjoicPqpeXPBA>
Please continue reading below for more details.
Regards,
SeasonWatch team
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Who can be part of this network?
You can join this network if you
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live on a campus and love trees
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want to learn how climate change impacts our trees and contribute to
existing knowledge
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want to learn how to collect, handle, analyze data, write findings
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want to work collaboratively with peers from campuses across the country
What is the requirement to participate?
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You will need to monitor 30 trees per species, once every week, of one
or more species from our list
<https://www.seasonwatch.in/sw-user/species.php> for one year. Why so
many trees? We need data from many trees to make sense of their phenology
pattern, one of the things we will learn in this project.
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You will also keep a note of the following weather parameters for your
location: weekly averages of Maximum and Minimum temperatures, and weekly
total rainfall. For this, you can use any weather app and keep a track
using an excel sheet which we will provide during an introductory workshop.
How can this benefit you?
As a student or educator living in a campus, the CPN will provide you the
opportunity to network with other academics through profile pages on the
SeasonWatch website. You will also have the opportunity to participate in a
capacity-building workshop where you can learn skills such as data
analysis, inference and presentation from expert ecologists. The CPN will
also be a community and forum to learn more about trees, climate change and
the environment. At the end of one year all participants will receive a
certificate of participation.
What is the project period?
One year from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024
How to join the Campus Phenology Network
You can JOIN <https://forms.gle/AHkyxjoicPqpeXPBA> the network by filling a
registration form before 1 March 2023.
To know more about the project and learn ‘what happens after you join’
visit our website page
<https://www.seasonwatch.in/updates/campus-phenology-network/>.
Contact us
If you have any queries regarding the network, please write to us on
sw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx with the subject line ‘Campus Phenology Network’.