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ABOUT SEASONWATCH
SeasonWatch is a citizen volunteer network that monitors the seasons as revealed by trees. We document the timing of flowering, fruiting and leaf-flush of roughly 100 tree species, and explore how this timing may be changing as the climate changes. Please join us! Just identify a tree near you and monitor it every week. Upload this information through your account on this website to add to the data collected by volunteers all across the country. Read more about how to participate.
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WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK
We are currently in beta mode -- that is, we are still testing and adding to the site, but anyone is welcome to register and start observing trees! Please report any problems to sw@seasonwatch.in. In the future, we will have a sub-programme for schools and other groups; a discussion board; and ways to search, visualise and download all data collected by SeasonWatch volunteers.
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Tree tidbits
Aah, the old-fashioned hand pump. What a wonderful technological innovation! But wait, could it be that trees invented this technology first -- to pump millions and millions of litres of water from the ground every day? ....more
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FOCAL SPECIES
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POPULAR SPECIES
What have SeasonWatch trees been doing?
August 2011 to February 2012: SeasonWatch was launched in beta in January 2011, but only really picked up from August 2011, with the participation of many schools in Kerala under the Mathrubhumi-SEED programme. Below are some selected patterns of flowering, fruiting and leafing of SeasonWatch trees. The graphs show the fortnightly proportion of trees with flowers, fruits, or fresh leaves. The number of individual trees monitored in each fortnight is shown underneath each line.
You can see from these patterns that mango flowering has reached a peak in February, with fruits following close behind. Also, mangos appear to be putting out fresh leaves regularly from August onwards. The number of jackfruit trees with fruits is also on the rise, as also amla trees with fruits. Amla trees put out fresh leaves in August-September, with fewer and fewer putting out fresh leaves in the months since then. This is just a small sample of the information that SeasonWatchers have collected. Join in and tell us what your tree is doing!
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No. of participants
316
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No. of trees
1849
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No. of observations
12861
