Berries in Winter: a natural history of fruit retention in four species across Alaska (by Christa Mulder, Katie Spellman and Jasmine Shaw) features the fabulous dataset collected by all the Winterberry participants. It's part of a special issue of the journal Madroño on phenological patterns of the flora of western North America. Check out those Acknowledgements - everyone who contributed to the dataset is there!
Connecting Community and Citizen Science to Stewardship Action Planning through Scenarios Storytelling (by Katie Spellman, Doug Cost and Chris Villano) features the groups that participated in the scenarios exercises.
We are really proud of how the Winterberry participants made this work possible!
This project is support through partnerships with the Bonanza Creek Long Term Ecological Research Program and the Arctic and Earth SIGNs program. Major funding is provided through a grant to the University of Alaska Fairbanks from the National Science Foundation, award 1713156 (PI: KV Spellman, CoPIs: CP Mulder and EB Sparrow).
Dr. Christa Mulder takes you through the Winterberry project science overview and the basics of observing berries.
Dr. Katie Spellman discusses the ongoing research on berries by UAF and USGS that spans the life cycle of the berry plants, and illustrates how Winterberry Citizen science helps improve our knowledge of how berries are changing in the far North.
Read our newsletter with the most recent project highlights, data, and stories. We hope you like the "Berry Times" pun. Phenology... Times... Get it!?