[PCA] NEWS: Evolved Science: Crowds Can Catalog Bugs Faster

[Kwong, Olivia]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/03/11/289064040/evolved-science-crowdsourcing-makes-cataloging-bugs-faster

Evolved Science: Crowds Can Catalog Bugs Faster
by Stan Jastrzebski
March 11, 2014 4:00 PM

The next evolution of science is not happening in a lab, but in a basement
in a rural Florida county. Thanks to online crowdsourcing, thousands of
non-scientists can visit a site called and lend a hand to university
researchers cataloging their collections, from bark to bugs.

See the link above for the full article text (which includes an herbarium
example).
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