Eastern Pennsylvania Phenology: Project Partners

Project Partners

These organizations have been instrumental in the planning and implementation of the Eastern Pennsylvania Phenology Project. Please take a minute to learn about these groups.

Lehigh Gap Nature Center
   Dan Kunkle (Executive Director)
   Meredith Wright (Project Assistant)
    Corey Husic (LGNC Intern)

Eastern PA State Parks:

-Eastern Regional Park Education Coordinator: Rob Neitz
-Environmental Educators: Rick Wiltraut, Bill Sweeney, Diane Madl and Ian Kindle
- Jacobsburg State Park
- Lehigh Gorge State Park
- Big Pocono State Park
- Beltsville State Park
- Hickory Run State Park
- Tuscarora State Park
- Tobyhanna State Park
- Gouldsboro State Park
- Promised Land State Park
- Nockamixon State Park
- Delaware Canal State Park

Lehigh Valley Audubon

Audubon Pennsylvania

Wildlands Conservancy

Northampton County Conservation District

Master Gardeners of Monroe, Northampton, and Lehigh County

Numerous community volunteers

There are many periodic events in nature: the budding of leaves and flowers in the spring, the changing color of leaves in the fall, migrations, insects hatching, etc. There are also physical changes that we pay attention to such as the first and last frosts, and the thawing of the ice on lakes and ponds. Monitoring these seasonal signs is known as phenology. The timing of these events in nature is extremely sensitive to changes in the environment. Thus, collecting data on the timing of phenology events over many years can give us important clues about what might be changing in our world. This blog will record seasonal changes being observed in eastern Pennsylvania. My hope is to have others in the region contribute by commenting on what they are observing in their backyards or what they notice while being outdoors -- hiking, birding, biking, or whatever. I look forward to your comments about what is changing in your "neck of the woods".

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