Month: April 2025

Led by former postdoc Adam Young (now at NEON), a preprint of the data paper for V3 of the curated and publicly-available PhenoCam dataset is now available online at Earth System Science Data, where it is undergoing open review.

PhenoCam V3.0 includes 738 unique sites and a total of 4805.5 site years, a 170 % increase relative to PhenoCam V2.0 (1783 site years), with notable expansion of network coverage for evergreen broadleaf forests, understory vegetation, grasslands, wetlands, and agricultural systems. This updated release now includes a PhenoCam-based estimate of the normalized difference vegetation index (cameraNDVI), calculated from back-to-back visible and visible+near-infrared images acquired from approximately 75 % of cameras in the network, which utilize a sliding infrared cut filter. 

Thanks to the whole PhenoCam team, and our site collaborators, for their efforts in support of making PhenoCam data open and FAIR!

Congratulations to Darby, who has been awarded funding from NAU’s Office of Graduate and Professional Studies in support of her work on changes in soil carbon cycling at the Hubbard Brook LTER site in New Hampshire.

And, congratulations to Jacob, who has been awarded a summer fellowship from the Sevilleta LTER in support of his field work on the impacts of changes in water availability on seasonality in creosote bush.

The Ecoss and ITS members of the PhenoCam team met up for lunch at NiMarco’s Pizza and a tour of the Monsoon HPC servers and storage. Although the team meets regularly on Zoom, this was the first opportunity for everyone to get together in person. Looking forward, we aim to have these kinds of get-togethers at least once a semester.

The favorite pizza? Probably the Popeye!

The picture below shows, from left, Devin Jay, Mike, Ethan, Oscar, Chris, Mostafa, Perry, and Keith.