Laukahi Commonsa Hoʻōla ʻĀina FY27 proposal

When do I collect?

Partly live

Collection timing is the most perishable knowledge in restoration: it lives in field notebooks and the memories of veteran collectors. This workflow assembles fruiting phenology per species from herbarium specimens (in partnership with the University of Hawaiʻi), structured field observations from PEPP and VINE crews, research publications, and community science, and turns it into a collection calendar anyone can read.

The pipes are laid: phenology accession and monthly tables, plus a collection_window() function, already exist in the shared database — and the document library that carries the published record is live with search today.

The phenology pipes, already laid

Working demonstrator

The shared database already carries phenology structures — accession records, a month-by-month table, and a collection-window function waiting on data. The funded work is the assembly: filling these pipes from herbarium sheets, field crews, and community science until the calendar below is real for every target species.

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Counts connect at deploy with the shared project keys.

source: connects with the shared Laukahi database at deploy

The collection calendar

Design preview

Per-species fruiting windows, read at a glance, with every bar traced to its evidence — a herbarium sheet, a field observation, a paper. The rows below are illustrative; the funded work assembles the real record.

illustrative only — this surface is built by the proposal

The knowledge layer

Working demonstrator

The network's document library — with semantic search and Hawaiian diacritic repair — runs today on laukahi.org. It's where the assembled phenology record, protocols, and published guidance will live, searchable by everyone.

source: connects with the shared Laukahi database at deploy
Dataset or toolStatus
Phenology tables & collection-window engineLive now
Herbarium phenology (UH partnership)With named partner
Field observations (PEPP, VINE)With named partner
Research publications (HRPRG)Live now
Community science (iNaturalist)Built by this proposal