Our observations

1) Network Dashboard

Great tool for seeing summary of observations at the site and by the users.

• Use the link above and scroll down to the "Observation Quantity Dashboard" 

• Use the dropdown menu for the "Local Phenology Program/Network"and make sure "Lake Superior Phenology Network" is the only one selected. You can see the drop down menu marked with the arrow in the right image (Figure 1).

• Select the year you are interested in.

• Now you can scroll through all our data. You will see the number if records and their breakdown from our site. 

• You can also look at your statistics. If you select our network under the "Observer activity dashboard"

2) Observation Deck

This tool allows you to look at the timing of three plants and their phenophases on two years.

• Login to your account at NPN.

• If you do not directly open onto the page that has "My Observation Deck" in the middle, click the grey box with "my observation deck" written on it. 

• Select the "My Phenology Calendar" tab. See image on right (Figure 2).

• Scroll down and click on "Customize my calendar"

• You will find drop down menus where you can select your site, species and phenophase. Then select "Add to calendar". You can add up to three items. 

• Then click "Create my Phenology Calendar".

3) Visualization tool

This tool allows you to look at all the data available in the NPN database.

• Select "Data Explorer" on the left panel.

• Select "Scatterplot" and "Next"

• Then do "Next" on the boundaries screen. 

• When prompted select a date range and select "Next"

• Select a species and phenophase class in the dropdown menus. Then select "Next"

• You can change the x-axis to anything you want to look at like "Latitude", "Precip", "Tmin winter" (coldest temperature in the winter)

• You can also click "Fit line" if you want to see whether there is a trend.

• Play more as you wish! See Figure 3 for an example scatterplot.