VIRTUAL MEETING | Nature’s Calendar: recording phenology in the UK
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SPEAKER: Professor Tim Sparks
BIOGRAPHY: Tim has a background in applying quantitative techniques to biological data. He tends to get distracted by a fascination for idiosyncratic, historical or long term datasets that can provide information on environmental (including climatic) change. He has far too many of these already, and should really not get involved in any others, but...
Tim has previously worked at UK research institutes and universities, and for universities in Poland and Germany. He currently has affiliations with the Poznań University of Life Sciences, and the Universities of Liverpool and Cambridge. Tim is an editor of the journal Climate Research and serves on the editorial boards of others. He re-established a phenological network in the UK in 1998, now run by the Woodland Trust as Nature’s Calendar, and acts in a voluntary capacity for the Trust.
ABSTRACT: This talk discussed the history and recording of phenology, the timing of natural events, in the UK and how this has evolved into a network of voluntary recorders coordinated by the Woodland Trust. Along the way we met some of the characters that have been, or continue to be, involved in recording. The timing of the seasons perhaps ranks second only to the weather as a topic in opening conversations. How the weather affects phenology, and how phenology has changed was illustrated with examples drawn from the Nature’s Calendar’s database and elsewhere.
This was a 45-minute talk followed by a 15 minute Q&A. The meeting was open from 6:50 pm for attendees to join and the event started promptly at 7:00pm.
Please note the joining instructions provided the virtual meeting link.
UPDATE: Registration has now closed. Please contact conferences@rmets.org to register for this event.
VIRTUAL MEETING | Nature’s Calendar: recording phenology in the UK recording
SPEAKER: Professor Tim Sparks
BIOGRAPHY: Tim has a background in applying quantitative techniques to biological data. He tends to get distracted by a fascination for idiosyncratic, historical or long term datasets that can provide information on environmental (including climatic) change. He has far too many of these already, and should really not get involved in any others, but...
Tim has previously worked at UK research institutes and universities, and for universities in Poland and Germany. He currently has affiliations with the Poznań University of Life Sciences, and the Universities of Liverpool and Cambridge. Tim is an editor of the journal Climate Research and serves on the editorial boards of others. He re-established a phenological network in the UK in 1998, now run by the Woodland Trust as Nature’s Calendar, and acts in a voluntary capacity for the Trust.
ABSTRACT: This talk discussed the history and recording of phenology, the timing of natural events, in the UK and how this has evolved into a network of voluntary recorders coordinated by the Woodland Trust. Along the way we met some of the characters that have been, or continue to be, involved in recording. The timing of the seasons perhaps ranks second only to the weather as a topic in opening conversations. How the weather affects phenology, and how phenology has changed was illustrated with examples drawn from the Nature’s Calendar’s database and elsewhere.
This was a 45-minute talk followed by a 15 minute Q&A. The meeting was open from 6:50 pm for attendees to join and the event started promptly at 7:00pm.
Please note the joining instructions provided the virtual meeting link.
UPDATE: Registration has now closed. Please contact conferences@rmets.org to register for this event.