Phenology 2010 Program
Monday, 14th of June 2010
Room 1
14:00 Welcome, Announcements and Introduction
14:30 Phenology in local, regional and global ecology, Josep Penuelas, Center for
Ecological Research and Forestry Applications, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
15:15 Origins of the word “phenology” – from periodical observations to
anthochronology and phenology – a scientific debate between Adolphe Quetelet and
Charles Morren - Gaston R. Demaree, Royal Meteorological Institute, Belgium
15:45 High-resolution phenological observations in a northern mixed forest – Mark
Schwartz, Int. Society of Biometeorology/UW-Milwaukee, USA
16:15 Tea and Coffee Break
16:30 Finnish National Phenological Network – Eero Kubin, Finnish Forest Research
Institute, Finland
17:00 Long term phenological trends of some forest woody plants as an indicator of
climate change in the W – Bernard Siska, Slovak University of Agriculture, Slovakia
17:30 Asynchronous response of rainforest and tropical dry forest leaf phenology to
seasonal and El Niño-driven drought – Stephanie Pau, NCEAS, USA
Room 2
15:15 A pollen planner to help assist hay fever patients to adapt to phenological
changes – Arnold J. H. van Vliet, Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Wageningen
University, The Netherlands
15:45 An operational phenological model for numerical pollen prediction – Helfried
Scheifinger, ZAMG, Austria
16:15 Tea and Coffee Break
16:30 Birch pollen concentration in Latvia and its relationship with meteorological
parameters (2003-2009) – Olga Riternberga, Dept. of Geography and Earth Sciences,
University of Latvia, Latvia
17:00 Use of satellite data in near real-time monitoring of the birch flowering in
Norway - Stein Rune Karlsen, Northern Research Institute Tromsø (Norut), Norway
17:30 Potential impacts of climate variables on the pollen season of birch (Betula
spp.) and related species in Ireland - Hazel Proctor, Dept. of Botany, Trinity College,
Ireland
Room 3
15:15 BACCHUS historical phenological and early temperature records from Eastern
Austria, Burgundy and the Swiss Plateau - Elisabeth Koch, Zentralanstalt für
Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Austria
15:45 The first box of cherries - Marie Russell Keatley, University of Melbourne, Australia
16:15
Tea and Coffee Break
16:30 Wind pollination and its influence on climate change responses – Chiara Ziello,
Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
17:00 Phenological variations and reproductive success in rare true mangroves Binai Nagarajan, Institute of Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding, India
17:30 The Group on Earth Observations and global phenology data - Bradley Reed,
Group on Earth Observations (GEO), Switzerland
19:00 Wine Reception
Tuesday, 15th of June 2010
Room 1
09:00 Announcements and Introduction
09:15 Patterns and food web consequences of phenological change in marine,
freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems - Stephan Thackeray, The Centre for Ecology and
Hydrology, Lancaster, UK
10:00 Modelling plant phenology in a warming climate – Amelia Caffarra, IASMA
Research and Innovation Centre, Italy
10:30 Impacts of climate change on the phenological timing of Vitis vinifera in an
alpine region – Emanuele Eccel, Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy
11:00 Tea and Coffee Break
11:30 Modelling blanket and raised bog habitat distribution in Ireland – projections of
future climate suitability under a changing climate – John Coll, Dept. of Geography, NUI
Maynooth, Ireland
12:00 The impact of climate change on the spatial distribution of Ireland’s
biodiversity – predicting changes and informing adaptation measures – David Bourke,
Applied Ecology Unit, Centre for Environmental Science, NUI Galway, Ireland
12:30 Methodological approach for the study of the effects of climate change on
rainfall in Ireland – Pablo Fernández de Arróyabe Heráez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
Room 2
10:00 A 250-year index of first flowering dates and its response to temperature
changes – Tatsuya Amano, National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Japan
10:30 Phenology of Atlantic rain forest trees: climate, ecology and phylogeny –
Patricia Morellato, UNESP, Brazil
11:00 Tea and Coffee Break
11:30 The phenology of plant invasions: how temporal niches and priority effects
assemble plant communities – Elizabeth Wolkovich, National Center for Ecological
Analysis and Synthesis, USA
12:00 Warming, crop phenology and the demography of wildlife – Toke T. Høye, Dept.
of Wildlife Ecology and Management, Denmark
12:30 Do only birds have a problem? – Arnold J. H. van Vliet, Environmental Systems
Analysis Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Room 3
10:00 Spring flowering response to climate change over 70 years in central Alberta,
Canada – Elisabeth Beaubien, Dept. of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta,
Canada
10:30 Plant phenological variation in Norway during 50 years related to temperature –
Frans Emil Wielgolaski, Dept. of Biology, University of Oslo, Norway
11:00 Tea and Coffee Break
11:30 Reconstruction of the maize phenology in Croatia – Višnja Vučetić,
Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Croatia
12:00 Rubus spp. phenology in Ireland in response to climate warming: an
exploration using herbarium specimens - Eileen Diskin, Dept. of Botany, Trinity College,
Ireland
12:30 Betula pubescens at international phenological gardens in the Czech Republic
– Lenka Hájková, Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Czech Republic
13:00 Lunch Break
Room 1
14:00 Announcements and Introduction
14:15 Seabird population responses to climate change: linking demographic to
climate models - Stephanie Jenouvrier, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA
15:00 Data visualisation and mapping methods to assess synchrony: application to
historical Eucalypt flowering records – Irene L. Hudson, School of Mathematics and
Statistics, University of South Australia, Australia
15:30 Plant phenology as indicator for Swedish goals of reduced climate impact on
the environment – Ola Langvall, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
16:00 Tea and Coffee Break
16:30 Future climatic conditions and their impact on viticulture in the Upper Moselle
region – Steffi Urhausen, Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn, Germany
17:00 Assessing the effects of climate change on tree phenology of European
temperate trees species along altitudinal gradients – Yann Vitasse, Institute of Botany,
University of Basel, Switzerland
17:30 Determine the vegetation period and regional trends in Germany – Wolfgang
Janssen, German Weather Service, Germany
Room 2
15:00 Monitoring and assessing phenology in the context of global change across
scales and sensors – Jesslyn Brown, U.S. Geological Survey, USA
15:30 Remote sensing of landscape phenology to map global vegetation productivity
and its links with animal migrations – Pieter S. A. Beck, Woods Hole Research Center,
USA
16:00 Tea and Coffee Break
16:30 Monitoring vegetation phenology at scales from individual plants to whole
canopies, and from regions to continents: insights from the PhenoCam network –
Andrew Richardson, Harvard University, USA
17:00 Alpine grassland phenology: a multi-source data perspective – Edoardo
Cremonese, ARPA, Italy
17:30 The Phenology and Vegetation Earth Observation Service (PHAVEOS) –
Thomas Lankester, Infoterra, Ltd., UK
Room 3
15:00 The influence of climate on Australian migration and breeding phenology –
Lynda Chambers, Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research, Australia
15:30 Wind flow influences on the captures of Wood Warbler (Phylloscopus
sibilatrix) an uncommon migratory species on western Mediterranean – Carles
Barriocanal, Dept. Of Geography, University of Girona, Spain
16:00 Tea and Coffee Break
16:30 Changing climate and the phenological response of three bird populations in
flood plain forest ecosystems in the Czech Republic – Lenka Bartosova, Institute of
Agrosystems and Bioclimatology, Mendel University, Czech Republic
17:00 Optimal timing of reproduction – Marjolein E. Lof, Dept. of Animal Ecology,
Netherlands Institute of Ecology, The Netherlands
17:30 To make the most of what we have: extracting phenology data from standard
measures of chicks – Anna L. Nilsson, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis,
Dept. of Biology, University of Oslo, Norway
19:00 Conference Banquet
Wednesday, 16th of June 2010
Room 1
09:00 Announcements and Introduction
09:15 Birds and climate change – individual and population responses - Anne
Charmantier, Centre d’Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, Montpellier, France
10:00 Photoperiodic control of spring flush of native forest trees at rising spring
temperatures – David Basler, Institute of Botany/University of Basel, Switzerland
10:30 Dormancy and frost resistance dynamics for contrasted budburst dates in
walnut trees – Guillaume Charrier, INRA/UBP, France
11:00 Tea and Coffee Break
11:30 Inherited latitudinal variation in phenology of native and introduced riparian
trees – Jonathan Friedman, United States Geological Survey, USA
12:00 Investigating temperature-related genotypic and phenotypic variation in
European aspen (Populus tremula L.) - Annelies Pletsers, Dept. of Botany, Trinity College,
Ireland
12:30 Could scientific research be improved by applying WEB 2.0 tools as citizen
science does? – Luciano Massetti, Institute of Biometeorology, Italy
Room 2
10:00 Satellite-based mapping of the growing season in mainland Norway and on
Svalbard – Stein Rune Karlsen, Northern Research Institute Tromsø (Norut), Norway
10:30 Satellite-derived land surface phenology product inter-comparison: toward an
integrated validation approach – Joanne Nightingale, Sigma Space Corporation/NASA
Goddard Flight Center, USA
11:00 Tea and Coffee Break
11:30 Spatio-temporal trends in season timing across the island of Ireland according
to landcover type – Brian O’Connor, Coastal and Marine Resources Centre (CMRC), UCC,
Ireland
12:00 Monitoring vegetation phenology with the MODIS daily direct broadcast
reflectance anisotropy algorithem – Crystal Schaaf, Boston University, USA
12:30 The generation of time series vegetative NDVI trajectory and long-term
phenological trends from AVHR data – Xiaoyang Zhang, ERT at NOAA/NESDIS/STAR,
USA
Room 3
10:00 Phenology in Italy – Giovanni Dal Monte, CRA-CMA, Italy
10:30 Impacts of extreme temperatures on urban-rural phenology – Susanne Jochner,
Technical University Munich, Germany
11:00 Tea and Coffee Break
11:30 An advance in flowering in the last ten years – Marie Russell Keatley, University
of Melbourne, Australia
12:00 Temperature and rainfall as drivers of flowering phenology in South Australian
Diuris (Donkey orchi) – Fran MacGillivray, University of Adelaide, Australia
12:30 Analysis of the relationships between climate and grapevine phenology in
Europe – Simone Orlandini, Dept. of Plant, Soil and Environmental Science, University of
Florence, Italy
13:00 Lunch Break
Room 1
14:00 Announcements and Introduction
14:15 Canada Plantwatch: engaging citizens as ‘eyes of science’ - Elisabeth Beaubien,
Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Canada
15:00 ClimateWatch – Australia’s National Phenological Network – Rich Weatherill,
Earthwatch Institute (Australia), Australia
15:30 Citizens as sensors – how can phenology benefit from volunteered geographic
information? – Peter Mooney, Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland
16:00 Tea and Coffee Break
16:30 Taking the pulse of our planet: the USA National Phenology Network – Jake
Weltzin, USA National Phenology Network, USA
17:00 Sinead Begley
Room 2
15:00 Validation of phenological variables estimated from Envisat MERIS data over
continental USA – Jadunandan Dash, School of Geography, University of Southampton,
UK
15:30 Senescent trajectories in the 2008 Wed-Enabled Landsat Data (WELD)
composites for CONUS – Geoffrey Heneby, Geographic Information Science Center of
Excellence, USA
16:00 Tea and Coffee Break
16:30 Vegetation phenology metrics derived from AMSR-E microwave vegetation
optical depth – Matthew O. Jones, The University of Montana Flathead Lake Biological
Station, USA
17:00 Extreme event ecology (E3): Long-term changes in phenological extremes over
six decades in Germany – Annette Menzel, Technische Universität München, Germany
17:30 The Swiss Spring Index as a novel integral metric for spring phenology Thomas Herren, MeteoSwiss, Switzerland
Room 3
15:00 Phenological monitoring along an altitudinal gradient in Berchtesgaden
National Park, Germany – Christine Cornelius, Chair of Ecoclimatology, Technische
Universität Mü, Germany
15:30 The effect of climate on the phenology of wheat in Iran – Elham Rahmani,
Meteorological Institute, University of Bonn, Germany
16:00 Tea and Coffee Break
16:30 Autumn – Cinderella phenology? – Tim Sparks, Institute of Zoology, Poznań
University of Life Sciences, Poland
17:00 Multiple applications of phenolgical data - Alison Donnelly, Dept. of Botany,
Trinity College, Ireland
18:00 ISB Phenology Commission Meeting (until 20:00)
Thursday, 17th of June 2010
08:30 PEP725 Meeting (until 12:30)
09:00 Field trips leave to Ireland’s Eye and the National Botanic Garden (until 17:00)
Friday, 18th of June 2010
08:30 Land Product Validation Subgroup (until 17:00)
Posters will be presented during tea and coffee breaks