Projects - Climate Change
- Arizona Science Center: Bark Beetles and Rainfall
- Curriculum materials support teachers involving students in data analysis, investigating how rainfall and temperature relate to bark beetle outbreaks.
- Bishop Museum: Makai Watch
- Volunteers monitor the health of the coastal communities of Maunalua Bay.
- Chabot Space & Science Center: Sword Ferns in the Redwood Ecosystem
- Student volunteers investigate the effects of a changing climate on the sword fern.
- Communicating Climate Change
- Twelve science centers, across the United States, using citizen science to investigate local indicators of climate change.
- eBird
- EdVenture: Monarch Larvae Monitoring Program
- Students and volunteers explore how butterfly populations are impacted by climate change.
- Franklin Institute: eBird
- Students in a service-learning program collect data for eBird, a national database of bird observations.
- IceWatch USA
- Juniper Pollen Project
- Monitoring pollen release to support asthma and allergy alerts.
- Maryland Science Center: Temperature Blast
- Exploring climate change and the Urban Heat Island effect around Baltimore.
- Mountain Watch
- Museum of Discovery and Science: Sea Turtle Research
- Volunteers in Fort Lauderdale monitor sea turtle nests for vulnerability to rising temperatures and sea levels.
- Nature's Notebook
- A national plant and animal phenology observation program.
- NestWatch
- New York Hall of Science: BudBurst
- Individuals and families of all ages in Queens, New York, track the flowering and fruiting of plants through Project BudBurst
- North American Bird Phenology Program
- Ozone Garden
- Students monitor the effects of ground-level ozone, and assess damage to plants, in this program from the Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont.
- Phenology Monitoring
- Participants at the Great Smoky Mountain Institute at Tremont track phenology across several plots and contribute data to the National Phenology Network.
- Project BudBurst
- Project FeederWatch
