LE BLOG du CREA Mont-Blanc
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Come and discover the many features of SPOT, the new website for Science Science in the Mountains Open to All, all day long at the Mont Blanc Observatory. With demonstrations of participatory science programs, SPOT navigation, meetings with researchers and … Continued
Collecting wild and domestic ungulate droppings for the HerbiLand project As part of this project on the population dynamics of wild herbivores in supra-forest environments, one of the scientific objectives is to determine the plant species on alpine shrubs consumed … Continued
This emblematic citizen science program of CREA Mont-Blanc needs no introduction. Every season, it allows hundreds of assiduous observers the opportunity to note the dates of budburst, flowering and other phenological events of the flora of our mountains. Before starting … Continued
Citizen Science was once again at its best last summer season at CREA Mont-Blanc. Volunteers, hikers or visitors in the mountain huts, voluntarily help conduct scientific research. Let’s take a look back at a particularly active season. Simple observations to … Continued
CREA Mont-Blanc leads and analyzes several citizen science programs, including Phénoclim and Wild Mont-Blanc. Faced with the multiplicity of programs that we propose or that we wish to launch, we decided to create a single digital interface that will be … Continued
Citizen science is at the heart of CREA Mont-Blanc’s mission. More recently, we’ve been looking for the right formula to encourage more people to participate in field observations. This past summer, we tested a new approach, specially conceived for visitors … Continued
Mountain environments, which are the natural habitat of Arctic-Alpine species, are undergoing dramatic changes due to climate change. As a result, these specially adapted species are truly on the front lines of climate change. In order to understand the changes … Continued
Since it’s conception in 2004, CREA Mont-Blanc’s pioneering citizen science program, Phénoclim has changed a lot. While it was initially geographically restricted to the French Alps, it quickly spread into bordering countries, and then even other mountain ranges, with an … Continued
You asked, we answered: Why are Phénoclim results limited to the Alps and Pyrenees when the program brings together citizen scientists from all of France’s mountain ranges and border regions ? Read the article in French to learn more!
As part of the Arctic-Alpine Species project, which receives support from the EU’s FEDER-POIA fund, CREA Mont-Blanc asked its intrepid volunteers to help collect observations of Mountain hare and Rock ptarmigans in their natural habitat. The goal is to better understand … Continued