Dear all, This is a very good initiative by Suhel Quader, who successfully done/ doing the (bird) migrant watch program in India Please refer this link for migrant watch http://www.migrantwatch.in
Now this is another good initiative by which a nationwide information on changes of plants will be collected. In fact, it is aimed to do with the active participation of citizens all over India. No expertise is needed for gathering the data for this study. Whoever who can contribute data on changes (new leaf, flowering and fruiting) of certain individuals of a/different species can join this initiative and stay with the passion towards plants by keep in touch with them in the field. It would later give us a clear picture on how plants react to their (changing) environment. This initiative is aiming the participation of people of any age group such as school students to teachers, who can regularly monitor the plants at their home or on the way or in the campus once in a week and note down the changes. Be proud of becoming an active member of a nation wide program and we can add more people from our area. As I am travelling most of the time for my field work, I was thinking that I may not be able to participate in this but, I found out a solution. I will ask my parents or my wife who can collect and give me the data of a certain period of time that my wife or me myself can upload to the site. Thanks and Regards, Giby On Feb 22, 2:25 pm, Suhel Quader <suh...@ncbs.res.in> wrote: > 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 Scienceshttp://www.ncbs.res.in/citsci > > Sreekanth Sreedharan and Prakash Iyer > Wipro Applying Thought in Schoolshttp://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.
