European Phenology Campaign

OŠ dr. Mate Demarina

2025-06-17T12:20:39Z

Hello everyone! 😊
Here we are, joining in - after the campaign has already started.
📎 Attached are some photos of our trees and the measurements we took.We began observing the leafing of our school cherry tree 🍒 and fig tree on March 6th, 2025, and completed our observations on June 12th, 2025, as that was also the end of our school year.
The cherry tree reached budburst around March 27th, while the fig tree budburst occurred a bit earlier, around March 20th. 🌱Six fifth-grade girls participated in the research, and they even measured the leaves on their own at times.
Our favorite part was tasting the first cherries 🍒 from our little cherry tree, which bore fruit for the first time this school year! 😋I will soon upload all the data to the GLOBE database. 🌍Thank you once again, on behalf of myself and my students, for such interesting projects. 🙏This is my last year working in school, as I am moving to a new position.
So I would like to use this opportunity to say goodbye 👋 — but I’m sure I’ll continue working with GLOBE in my new role as well! 😊

FIG

CHERRY

RE: Medulin Fig - fallen leaves - END

2024-12-10T22:10:03Z

All leaves were fallen on 5th of December, when we had the last observation. In comperison with other school this is long period to have leaves on this little fig (1 m high). We compared our fig's data with data of Opatija, Rijeka, Zadar in Croatia, and Kopar in Slovenia.

Medulin Fig - fallen leaves - END

2024-12-10T21:59:04Z

Hi everyone!
Here are our data. All 4 leaves have fallen down, so the Green Down Campaign 2024 is done.

Leaf 1

Leaf 2

Leaf 3

Leaf 4

Best wishes!

Fig tree in Medulin - My Tree

2024-10-21T20:11:23Z

Hi there, we have measured our little tree. It is 101 cm high.

Fig tree in Medulin - 2024 Autumn Tree Campaign

2024-10-10T19:55:38Z

Hi everybody! It's never too late to join the autumn tree campaign, and we did it. We have new members and we finally getter to see the color of our "little" fig tree.
Today was cloudy day, air temperature was 21°C and the rain started when we have finished the measurements.

OŠ dr. Mate Demarina - Autumn Phenology Campaign 2021 - "many" fig trees

2022-08-14T18:42:39Z

Hi everybody, I am a little bit late with my results. But our students have been very enthusiastic and engaged in the Autumn European Phenology Campaign. Our students have tracked color change in more than six fig trees, and some of the leaves haven't fallen yet.
Here are some of our results to check it out. All figs are in the Istria peninsula in Croatia. In villages Premantura, Šišan, Medulin, Valtura and city of Pula.

1. Fig tree in Šišan, the leaves have fallen on 8th November.

2. Fig tree in Medulin, the leaves have fallen on 17th November.

3. Fig tree in the city of Pula, the leaves had fallen on 5th November.

We are waiting for other leaves to fall!

Best wishes to you all

OŠ dr. Mate Demarina - "our" Tree - fig tree

2022-08-14T18:42:39Z

Hi everyone, we are elementary and middle school from Medulin (Croatia), and this is our first autumn phenology campaign! My students and I are following few fig trees (Ficus carica) in our backyards. We are big school and our students live in nearby villages: Premantura, Ližnjan, Šišan, Banjole and Pješćana uvala. We will try to follow more than 5 fig trees, in the villages, near school and in the city of Pula.
We are looking forward to our results and collaboration with some other croatian school.

The fig on the picture is (my) teacher's fig. But you can see all of our trees on our Padlet: https://padlet.com/anjaoreskovic/greendown2021

Fig - Data (Garden Premantura site, OŠ dr. Mate Demarina)

2022-08-14T18:42:39Z

Here is our fig data. This fig is in Premantura, in teacher garden. Due to COVID situation this is one realiable sample of tree that we followed. Students took measurements in their gardens in Banjole, Ližnjan and Šišan.

Fig leafs - Premantura

2022-08-14T18:42:39Z

Here is the new photos of the Fig leafs in Premantura.

Leaf 1 is 36 mm long, leaf 2 is 30 mm long, leaf 3 is 28 mm long, and leaf 4 is 19 mm long.
Behind, you see our cherry tree.

Next week school starts, but virtualy (online) due to pandemic. My student are home observing their figs and cherrys, taking pictures on Grow App and taking measurements on Green Up Data Sheet.

Cherry tree and leafs

2022-08-14T18:42:39Z

Here is our home observation on cherry tree. It budburst on 2nd April.
It blossoms!

Leaf lengt is 11 mm on 7th April.

Fig tree with leafs

2022-08-14T18:42:39Z

Here is our fig trees with leafs.
Premantura

This is my dog Enzo sniffing around. Picutres is taken on 4th April.

Medulin
Elementary School dr. Mate Demarina - our little Fig that we planted on 15th March.

Picture is taken on 2th April by a student Barbara.

Hope you like our trees!

Activity 2 - Fig budburst in Premantura

2022-08-14T18:42:39Z

My fig had first budburst on 24th March. Fig is in my garden in Premantura, Croatia.

All four leafs are growing.
Yesterday on 6th April it was snowing in the afternoon and it was very cold. It's very unusually for our village Premantura. Premantura is surrounded with sea as you can see in the following Google Map picture.

Our school Elementary School dr. Mate Demarina is in Medulin, and due to COVID situtation, me and my pupils are following our garden trees - fig and cherry (in places: Banjole, Ližnjan and Šišan). You can see this villagese in the picture, and fint it on Grow App appliaction.

Our team work you can follow also on our Padlet page: https://padlet.com/anjaoreskovic/oib780iqxzofvhrc

Spring Tree Observation Campaign - Fig and Cherry

2022-08-14T18:42:39Z

Hi everyone,
we are elemetary school dr. Mate Demarina (MEDULIN) from Croatia. We just started to do GLOBE, we will plant our fig and cherry tree this week!
We decided to reaserch Fig and Cherry trees in our gardens, and then compare the resultst with our new trees in school yard.

Here are pictures of teacher's fig from Prematnura (village), and Gregor and Gaia taking pictures of their figs in Šišan (village). Figs are still without leafs