Citizen scientists of the world, unite!
August 29, 2013
When we announced the start of The Global Soil Survey for Sustainable Turf a few weeks ago, there was one feature of the survey that piqued the interest of many of you. That was the description of the survey as a "citizen science" project.
According to Scientific American's Citizen Science website, citizen science uses the power of the Internet to enlist people all over the world — scientists and non–scientists — to gather information that helps us to better understand…