UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND
Climate Tracker Initiative Launches in Charlottetown and Stratford

The City of Charlottetown, in partnership with the Town of Stratford and the School of Climate Change and Adaptation at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), have launched Climate Trackers - a new citizen-science based sustainability initiative. Community members are being invited to note their observations related to seasonal changes, weather, plants and wildlife, drainage, flooding and more around their home or local neighbourhood. The goal of the initiative is to use data from the community contributions to better understand the local impacts of climate change.

Climate Trackers is a family-friendly initiative that does not require any previous science or data collection experience. As an individual, or a group, participants will be asked to note observations from around their property or local neighbourhood on a regular basis - for example, this could be daily, weekly or anytime something in nature catches the participants attention.

Registered Climate Trackers will receive a hard copy Climate Diary along with a Nature Guide that features colour photos and descriptions of plants and animals on PEI to help identify and track their observations. To contribute to local climate science, participants are asked to add these observations to the UPEI Climate Diary app. The inputs will be used by climatologists at UPEI for research purposes and by municipal staff to help inform climate change adaptation efforts. To learn more and report observations to the app, visit diary.peiclimate.ca.