Events - Latin America and Caribbean
Webinar: Flowering Tree Phenology from the Ground and Space
In this special webinar as part of the Trees Around the GLOBE Student Research Campaign, we will discuss flowering tree phenology from the ground and space, and a request for GLOBE Program participants. Flower traits such as color rely on pigments that determine their color and contribute to the spectral patterns that flowering plants exhibit. However, remote sensing of plant phenology has almost exclusively focused on studying leafing and greenness dynamics, dismissing flowering, the reproductive phase of approximately 90% of all known plant species. Our featured speaker, Dr. Yoseline Angel will discuss a novel scalable method — focusing on ground to satellite observations — that she developed with her team. The method was inspired by how pollinators perceive flowers through their ultraviolet, blue, green, and red photoreceptors. Following the featured science talk, we will discuss Dr. Angel’s request of GLOBE participants to use the GLOBE Observer Land Cover and Trees tools to find and document Tabebuia trees in Mexico through Central America and parts of western South America.
Tabebuia is a genus of flowering plants. The ones of major interest to Dr. Angel and her team are:
- Guayacan amarillo (Central and South America)
- Arbol de la primavera (Mexico)
- Cañaguate (Colombia)
- Araguaney (Venezuela)
- Roble amarillo (South America)
Visit the Trees Around the GLOBE campaign page for more information and instructions to register for the webinar.