Nature's Notebook: Exploring the Pace of the Planet from Your Own Backyard

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

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1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Sidney R. Yates Auditorium
Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building

Learn the science behind bloom time and how your own observations of cherry blossoms and other dynamic life cycles in nature –or phenology – can help scientists monitor climate change and examine shifts in nature's calendar. Jake F. Weltzin, US Geological Survey Ecologist and Executive Director of the USA National Phenology Network will discuss how scientists use information about phenology to better understand the delicate interaction between plants and animals, climate change, and environmental health.

Special Assistance – For those in need of special assistance (such as an interpreter for the hearing impaired) or inquiries regarding the accessible entrance, please notify museum staff at (202) 208-4743 in advance of the program. Special needs will be accommodated whenever possible.

Photograph courtesy of the National Park Service

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