Create a presentation

Presenting at conferences, symposia, and webinars is a great way to share what you've learned, build credibility for your project, and inspire others to adopt similar approaches. Below, you'll find presentation ideas tailored to four audiences, along with real examples from Chronolog partners who have shared their work.

Ecological Restoration, Engineering, & Hydrology

Long-term monitoring of ecological restoration projects is often constrained by high equipment costs, vulnerability to environmental damage, and intermittent field visits. A presentation for an ecological restoration or engineering related conference could detail your Chronolog’s low-cost, resilient methodology for capturing continuous, long-term visual data for ongoing project compliance and performance validation.

An example: Staff from Eglin AFB Natural Resources shared about their Chronolog at the 2025 National Stream Restoration Conference. You can read their abstract here.

County, Municipal, & GIS Land Management

As municipalities and regional land managers, you face the ongoing challenge of monitoring vast public lands for environmental shifts, shoreline erosion, and invasive species encroachment with limited budgets. A presentation for a land management conference could introduce your Chronolog as a model for leveraging passive, community-driven data collection to fill gaps in staff capacity and establish a continuous baseline of environmental change that can inform maintenance timelines, document erosion events, and enhance public transparency in regional land stewardship. You might consider covering logistical implementation, annual cost framework, and how the resulting data is integrated into your management frameworks.

An example: Staff from Indiana Dunes National Park share how they utilize Chronolog to demonstrate the effectiveness of their restoration team in this webinar. 7 years of data at IDN104 (image above) shows how the team has managed invasive cattails.
Staff from the City of Gastonia won two regional awards for how their Chronolog overcame silos between the stormwater department and Keep Gastonia Beautiful program. Read more here.

Nature Centers, Non-Profits, and citizen science

Traditional citizen science initiatives often require extensive volunteer training, specialized apps, and significant data-vetting oversight. With your Chronolog, you have lowered the barrier to entry to engage the casual, passive park visitor in active habitat monitoring. Consider sharing what visitors must do to participate, how many have contributed so far, and how many photos you’ve collected. How does this photo station align with your strategic goals?

An example: Spokane Riverkeeper needed hard data to prove pollution in one of Washington’s most impaired waterways, so they set up a Chronolog photo station. Thanks to years of this data, Washington's Department of Ecology confirmed the creek violates clean water standards in 2024 and added it to the 303(d) list, a legal designation that prioritizes it for cleanup and protection.

University, Academic Research Institutes, & Students

Long-term environmental data collection within university settings often suffers from structural gaps during student transitions and academic breaks. A curriculum that incorporates Chronolog offers a way to mitigate this. Chronolog stations provide undergraduate students with an uninterrupted, crowdsourced visual baseline to analyze seasonal ecosystem adjustments, vegetative phenology, and human-environment interactions on campus lands. Consider sharing how students utilize the structured data to track a specific research angle. Highlight the dual benefit of the platform: providing a robust, year-round data stream for academic study while simultaneously serving as an experiential learning tool that introduces early-stage students to the intersections of data science, ecology, and social epistemology.

PowerPoint Template

See below for a sample outline for a Chronolog-focused presentation, which you can adapt depending on your project, goals, and audience. Here are some sample slides. To adapt the slides for your own presentation, open the link, then click File > Make a copy > Entire presentation.

1. Introduce your site

Location, project, and purpose/goal of monitoring
Brief statement about “why this project matters to my organization’s goals”
Optional photo of the station or landscape

2. Explain what Chronolog is and how it works. Some key points:

Visitors take photos that feed into the timelapse
Automated emails share results in real time, plus a description of the project
A public webpage hosts an interactive timelapse (and connects to a worldwide network of other sites)

3. Illustrate the impact

Engagement metrics: number of contributors, timelapse views
Changes you've observed or insights you've gleamed from the timelapse so far (if relevant) → will you use this data to make decisions, validate funding, or otherwise support your organization’s mission and goals?

4. Show off your timelapse photos

Highlight before-and-after or seasonal progression images
Embed a short timelapse (if possible)

5. Share tips & lessons learned

The unique benefit that this project brings vs. other community science tools or programs
Best practices for visitor engagement
Any challenges or creative solutions your site has discovered

6. Call to action for others

How to contribute or start a Chronolog at another site
Share links to your Chronolog's webpage, to social media, or volunteer opportunities