Citizen Scientists Help Predict Spread of Sudden Oak Death (image)

North Carolina State University

Caption

Young citizen scientists locate and collect leaves with symptoms of sudden oak death, using the SODmap mobile application. More than 1,600 trained volunteers, from high school students to firefighters, have helped track the disease in California over a six-year period.

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Photo by Douglas Schmidt, UC Berkeley

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Please credit UC Berkeley's Douglas Schmidt.

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