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Archive for the 'Botany' Category

Herbaria@home

Herbaria@home is a project in the UK that uses citizen scientists to help identify the undocumented plant samples held by museums and universities:
Volunteers working for the web-based herbarium@home project have reached a milestone with the digitization of their 50 000th herbarium sheet. Working in partnership with museums and universities, the citizen science project aims to [...]

Global Garlic Mustard Field Survey

Many citizen science projects seek to measure the health of native species in an ecosystem. But what about measuring the advance of an invasive exotic species? That’s exactly what the Global Garlic Mustard Field Survey aims to do.

Download the PDF on their site for a full description and instructions on participating in this [...]

San Diego County Plant Atlas

The San Diego Natural History Museum has a number of citizen science projects that Delle Willett has pointed us to. The first up is the San Diego County Plant Atlas:
The San Diego County Plant Atlas project was created by the San Diego Natural History Museum to scientifically document the remarkable floristic diversity of San [...]