Dear plant-lovers, Do you love the beautiful trees in your garden, on the roadsides, and where you study or work? Would you like to contribute to a better understanding of our trees?
SeasonWatch (http://www.seasonwatch.in), is a citizen volunteer network that monitors the seasons as revealed by trees. We document the timing of flowering, fruiting and leaf-flush of roughly 100 tree species, and explore how this timing may be changing as the climate changes. There is no long-term information of this kind from India, so you can contribute to a better understanding of nature by simply watching the trees you love! Just identify a tree (or more) near you and monitor it every week. Upload this information through your account on the SeasonWatch website to add to the data collected by volunteers all across the country. Any interested person can take part -- no specialist knowledge is required. SeasonWatch is a purely non-commercial and free activity; its purpose is to understand changes in the natural world; and the information collected is open to all. In the future, we will have a sub-programme for schools and other groups; a discussion board; and ways to search, visualise and download all information collected by SeasonWatch volunteers. Please join today, and let a friend know as well! http://www.seasonwatch.in s...@seasonwatch.in Thank you, Suhel Quader, Arun Elassery and Uttara Mendiratta Citizen Science Programme National Centre for Biological Sciences http://www.ncbs.res.in/citsci Sreekanth Sreedharan and Prakash Iyer Wipro Applying Thought in Schools http://www.wiproapplyingthoughtinschools.com PS. Thanks to those of you who responded to our email describing the project last year. We will be in touch with you individually soon.
