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Digitize historical records from the wildflower table display at the Fairbanks Museum.
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The data in these cards represents over 100 years of community science. Dedicated volunteers have been collecting and recording first bloom dates as part of a display that was established by Frances Fairbanks, wife of the founder of the Fairbanks Museum. Digitizing this data allows for new levels of interpretation with implications about climate change and other factors that influence the diversity of wildflowers in northern New England.
Fairbanks Museum Wildflower PhenologyAbout Fairbanks Museum Wildflower Phenology
The wildflower table display has been supported by volunteer collectors since 1904. Specimens collected within a 50-mile radius of St. Johnsbury, Vermont are brought to the Fairbanks Museum twice a week by community scientists. Each blooming or fruiting specimen is identified and displayed, which has contributed to over a century of first bloom and fruit dates being recorded. By digitizing these records, we hope to make this dataset available to scientists for phenology research. Volunteers are needed to connect the work of community scientists who have collected and recorded first bloom dates for over 100 years. Your work digitizing the hand-written note cards creates a direct link to a unique set of historic phenology records. Added bonus: the wildflower display at the Fairbanks Museum was started by Frances Fairbanks, the wife of the Museum’s founder.
The data set includes 635 different species bloom and fruit dates over the past 100+ years, leading to an astronomical amount of data to digitize. We need the help of Zooniverse volunteers to help enter and catalogue the species name and corresponding bloom and fruit dates in order to analyse and interpret this marvellous backlog of data.