Annual Midwest Crane Count
During the annual count in April, volunteers survey wetlands and other birding locations for Sandhill and Whooping Cranes.
Citizen Science Projects: Phenology
Integrated Monarch Butterfly Monitoring Strategy
A national initiative to monitor monarch populations and habitat throughout the breeding range. The IMS uses a spatially balanced sampling scheme and draws from existing citizen science programs to deliver a suite of protocols that capture many aspects of habitat quality, threats, and monarch use of that habitat. Data gathered through the IMS contribute to existing population and habitat models that inform broad scale monarch conservation!
Sponsors
Hawk Ridge Bird ObservatoryLake Ice Reporting Program
Citizen observers collect ice-on and ice-off dates for MN lakes to better understand the effects changing ice cover has on lake health, local wildlife, and citizen lake use.
Sponsors
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Department of Natural ResourcesWisconsin Frog and Toad Survey
The primary purpose of this citizen-based monitoring program is to determine the status, distribution, and long-term population trends of Wisconsin’s 12 frog and toad species.
Project Link
http://wiatri.net/inventory/frogtoadsurvey/Sponsors
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, United States Geological Survey, North American Amphibian Monitoring ProgramWisconsin Phenological Society
Citizen scientists join the society to contribute phenological observations to better understand the relationships between stages of plant growth and animal life, and physical factors of the environment.