Shifting Baselines In Your Backyard

You can now contribute to the study of climate change by reporting on the trees and plants in your backyard. Project BudBurst is a national field campaign for citizen scientists designed to engage the public in the collection of important climate change data based on the timing of leafing and flowering of trees and other plants. BudBurst participants take careful observations of the phenological events such as the first bud burst, first leafing, first flower, and seed or fruit dispersal of a diversity of trees and other plants, including weeds and ornamentals. Scientists can use this data to learn about the responses of individual plant species to climatic variation locally, regionally, and nationally, and to detect longer-term impacts of climate change by comparing with historical data.

Visit www.budburst.org to join now!