https://phys.org/news/2018-07-frogwatchingcharting-climate-impact.html

The program runs a community-based annual Frog Census framed against a rapid global decline in frog numbers over the past four decades and the extinction of many frog species. The census began in 2002, and the resulting long-term dataset on the abundance and distribution of local frogs has enabled additional research activities including a climate change project. We'll take part in the latter, which monitors behavioural shifts in frogs through recording their calls at particular sites each week from June until October.

We're here for a few reasons. One is to get a lived sense of climate change in our immediate urban surroundings. Plus, I want to make a contribution, however small, to the huge dilemma of climate change and its impacts; give my 13-year-old daughter a taste of scientific fieldwork in case it appeals to her; get to know our local surroundings better; and, as a writer, to think about practices that don't simply observe or contemplate place but also participate in constructive activities at those same locales.