Monitoring spring (Vårsjekken)

This is an annual activity that want both pupils and all other people in Norway to register signs of spring in a database (birds, flowers, insects etc.). The aims are both to monitor the phenological variation in the country as well as the timing of spring due to climate change. It has been carried out since 1999. Since the spring of 2007 it has been a collaboration with the national television company, NRK.