Citizen Science helps track SOD in California

Citizen Scientists Key to Halting Sudden Oak Death (Op-Ed)

Matteo Garbelotto, University of California, Berkeley
"After spending over 50 percent of my time since 2006 working with volunteers on large projects, it is my opinion that in a funding-limited world, one of the best ways to move basic science forward is to work closely with the invaluable resource volunteers provide.  We should not only employ them to report or count organisms, but also treat them as peers and build strong cooperative efforts in which tasks are properly shared between professional and volunteer researchers."

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http://www.livescience.com/37207-sudden-oak-death.html