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Oregon Season Tracker

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Meet the Partners

Oregon Season Tracker is a collaborative project involving many local, state and national partners. Since its launch in 2014, we have been expanding communication. Partners include Oregon citizens and climate researchers in organizations studying the interaction of weather, climate and local ecosystems.

    Oregon State University Extension 

    Extension provides OST’s leadership in recruiting, training and supporting local volunteers in their observation and reporting activities.  OST has volunteers in over 20 counties in Oregon.  OST works with Extension colleagues to engage participants in established programs such as Master Woodland Managers, Master Gardeners, Oregon Master Naturalists, and youth and teachers through 4-H school enrichment programs. 

    The OST Extension team includes: Jody Einerson, OST Program Coordinator, Brad Withrow-Robinson, Forestry & Natural Resources, and Glenn Aherns, Forestry & Natural Resources.

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    HJ Andrews Experimental Forest  

    The Andrews is the lead science partner of the OST Collaboration, helping identify local science questions suited to OST citizen science involvement and that pair well with work of researchers at the Andrews.

    The Andrews is a leading center for long-term research, and is a member of the National Science Foundation's Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program.  The 16,000 acre Andrews research forest in the Cascade mountains is jointly managed by the US Forest Service and OSU for research into forest and stream ecosystems, and the interactions among ecological dynamics, physical processes, and forest governance.  OST primary collaborators: Mark Schulze, HJA Forest Director, Sherri Johnson, USFS Lead Scientist, and Chris Daley, Director PRISM Climate Group.

    Oregon Season Tracker Citizen Scientist Volunteers

    Over 400 volunteers around Oregon that gather and report weather and ecological data from their homes, woodlands, farms, ranches and schoolyards.

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    National Partners

    We work with two national partners to collect and manage OST-gathered data: the Community Collaborative Rain Hail & Snow Network (CoCoRaHS) and the USA National Phenology Network (Nature’s Notebook).  There are many benefits of partnering with these national programs  including contributing to national as well as local research, and online data access by both citizen scientist and researchers.  Data contributed to CoCoRaHS is also used at the PRISM Climate Group housed at Oregon State University.

    Oregon Season Tracker funders 

    OST has been successful due to the generous support of these groups:

    • USDA-NIFA, Renewable Natural Resource
      Extension Program
    • Gray Family Foundation
    • Tuktawa Foundation

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