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  • Journey North - Common Loon and Ice-Out observations by volunteer community scientists across North America (1997-2020)
  • Sheehan, Nancy; Program Coordinator; University of Wisconsin - Madison Arboretum, Journey North Program
    Abarca, Maricela; Data Manager (EDI Fellow); University of Wisconsin - Madison
  • 2022-07-22
  • Sheehan, N. and M. Abarca. 2022. Journey North - Common Loon and Ice-Out observations by volunteer community scientists across North America (1997-2020) ver 1. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/DOI_PLACE_HOLDER (Accessed 2024-12-29).

  • This data package contains Common Loon migration and ice melt data consisting of 9,800 total observational reports from 1997 - 2020 across North America. These data were collected by 1,437 community scientists for Journey North, a crowdsourced participatory science program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. The Journey North Loon and Ice-Out Project is an ongoing study of loon and ice melt phenology conducted at broad spatial and temporal scales. Since 1997, community scientists have tracked first arrival dates of Common Loons (Gavia immer) and ice that has melted from bodies of water in the United States. Observers also provide estimates of the number of birds sighted. However, observers do not follow standardized methods for counting species observed. Observers do not observe at set times of the day, do not repeat observations regularly, and are not required to provide the length of time during which a specified number of species observed were counted. Therefore, it is recommended that this dataset be analyzed to indicate presence not abundance. Researchers are encouraged to read the rich information provided by volunteers in their comments. These comments provide qualitative information about observational reports. Researchers are also encouraged to refer to submitted photographs that also provide context for observational reports. The Journey North Common Loon and Ice-Out Project Project dataset is hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Shared Web Hosting Service.

  • N: 64.564      S: 25.941      E: -59.58      W: -160.951
  • edi.1172.1  (Uploaded 2022-07-22)  
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  • Data Entities:
    1. UWMadisonArb_JNorth_Project_LoonsIce_1997-2020  (2.3 MiB; 7 downloads) 
    2. UW-MadisonArb.JourneyNorthProgram_Project_Initial-Subset-Cleaning  (25.0 KiB; 4 downloads) 
    3. dataPrepProcess_loonIceOut_OpenRefine  (108.3 KiB; 5 downloads) 
    4. UW-MadisonArboretum.JourneyNorthProgram_finalEDICleaning  (25.8 KiB; 4 downloads) 
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