PhenoNews

May I rise your attention to the following exhibition:
"The seasons of trees" - an exhibiton on phenolgy at Riva, Lake Garda (Trentino, Italy)
http://www.appa.provincia.tn.it/educazioneambientale/villino_campi/-Stagioni_Alberi/pagina163.html
(the exhibition panels are in Italian, English, and German).

Borrowing of this exhibition can be agreed after its closing (winter 2014-2015). Ref: fiorenza.tisi@provincia.tn.it

For your interest:
Citizen Science 2015
February 11th-12th, San Jose, California, USA

Citizen Science 2015 is the inaugural conference of the Citizen Science Association (CSA), two days of building connections and exchanging ideas across a wide spectrum of disciplines and experiences.

Citizen Science 2015

Just received the 2nd announcement for the Phenology 2015 conference which will be
held in Kusadasi,Turkey from 5-8 October 2015.

The topics are:
1. Phenological observations, networks, data collection
2. Climate variability, climate change and phenological trends
3. Match or mismatch in phenology
4. Remote sensing and phenology
5. Phenological modelling
6. New approaches and progress in phenology

latest informations are available at http://ap1-006b.agrar.hu-berlin.de/upload/

Their first phenological observations (on snowdrops, goat willow, gooseberry, apple, summer linden, elder and oak) are already in the PEP725 database (with weekly updates). All facts about the project and related documents can be found on the project homepage

During the "Long night of science" we present interesting facts of the relationship between phenology and climate change (and much more). If you are in Salzburg / AUSTRIA on the 4. April you should stop by!
All details can be found on the official homepage of the event. Lange Nacht der Forschung

The Global Conference on Global Warming 2014 (GCGW-14) will be held at Peking University, Beijing, China, on May 25-29, 2014. GCGW-14 is a multi–disciplinary international conference on the global warming and climate change issues and potential solutions. The aim of this conference is to assembly international scientists, researchers, engineers, policy makers and others specialists with an interest in issues related to global warming and potential solutions. During this Global Conference, a specialized session on Global Warming and Phenology Response will be organized on May 28. As the organizer of this specialized session, I would like to invite you to participate in our upcoming meeting. You can find more information at http://www.gcgw.org/gcgw14/. The abstract deadline is March 15. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me (cxq@pku.edu.cn). I look forward to welcoming you to GCGW-14 in May and hope you a very pleasant academic visiting journey in Beijing.
Sent on behalf of Xiaoqiu Chen

The third international conference on phenology will be held at Kusadasi/Turkey, from 5-8 October 2015. The conference is a German-Turkish initiative of the Faculties of Agriculture in Berlin and Aydin. It will be organised by Frank-M. Chmielewski (Humboldt-University Berlin) and Osman Erekul (Adnan Menderes University Aydin).

The conference will run over 4 days, starting on Monday 5 October 2015, and finishing on Thursday 8 October 2015. Overall theme of the conference is "Challenges in Phenology".

Conference, accommodation and conference dinner will all take place at the Pine Bay hotel in Kusadasi. On 9 October 2015, two excursions are offered for the conference participants. To participate in the whole conference, we recommend arriving on Sunday, 4 October in Kusadasi and leaving on Saturday, 10 October 2015. On both days, shuttle busses will be arranged between the conference hotel and the International Adnan Menderes Airport in Izmir (ADB), which is about 100 km north of the conference location.

At the 9th EUMETNET Datamanagement Workshop - that took place in El Escorial, Spain - the attached poster was presented.

THE PAN EUROPEAN PHENOLOGICAL DATABASE PEP725: DATA CONTENT AND -QUALITY
Anita Jurkovic¹, Thomas Hübner¹, Elisabeth Koch¹, Wolfgang Lipa¹, Helfried Scheifinger¹, Markus Ungersböck¹, Susanne Zach-Hermann^1
1ZAMG-Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria

The poster exemplifies the status quo of the data content of the PEP725 database and incipient stages of used and planned quality controls, respectively.

Poster download DMWS9th_PEP725_Jurkovic.pdf

We are very pleased to announce the start of the abstract submission for the EGU General Assembly 2014 (EGU2014), 27 April - 02 May 2014, Vienna, Austria.

Of special interrest the planned session on:

Phenology and seasonality in climate change and ecology (co-sponsored by PEP725 and USA-NPN) (co-organized)
CR3/AS4.24/BG5.6

http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/sessionprogramme

After a belated start of the spring season due to cold weather from March till beginning of April a warm and sunny second half of April and first half of May accelerated spring-phenology. The graph compares spring 2013 (red dots) with the long term distribution. One can see that leaf unfolding of larch started end of April which is about two to three weeks later than the average. Lilac flowered quite in time in the first days of March - cock´s foot and black elder flowering was observed about one week earlier than usual.

In the diagram you can see the annual mean occurrence date in black and the year 2013 as red dots.

The presentation: Trend of earlier spring in central Europe continued (Ungersböck et al.) from the EGU2013 conference is now online available Trend of earlier spring in central Europe continued

Announcement for the ASI12 Phenology and agrometeorology session at the
13th EMS Annual Meeting & 11th European Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM) , 09 – 13 September 2013, Reading, United Kingdom.

Deadline for papers is the 25. April 2013

All details can be found on the conference homepage www.ems2013.net

May I rise your attention to the upcoming conference Mountains Under Watch 2013 (20-21 February 2013, Forte di Bard, Aosta Valley - Italy), an interdisciplinary conference that aims at bringing together scientists and experts working in the diverse fields of climate change studies in mountain areas around the world. The specific goal of the conference is to share experiences, methods and strategies for long term observations and monitoring of the climate change effects on different alpine environments ranging from the cryosphere to the biosphere.

All details can be found on the conference website MUW13

Four of the presentations given at the PEP725 Symposion are now available for download:

• Toward a phenology network in Turkey, H. Nüzhet Dalfes


• Results from the phenological gardens of the University of Perugia, Fabio Orlandi


• Seasons, phenology and citizen science projects in Switzerland, This Rutishauser


• Long-term Assessment of Spring's Onset in North America, Mark D. Schwartz


• Elevational adaptation and plasticity in seedlings - phenology of temperate deciduous species, Yann Vitasse


• Off-season carbon dioxide exchange of a temperate mountain grassland, Georg Wohlfahrt


• Warming experiments underpredict plant phenological responses to climate change, Elizabeth M. Wolkovich