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Citizen Scientists Help Uncle Sam [1]

As governments tighten their belts, it's getting harder for them to pay scientists to monitor the health of the nation's ecosystems.  So increasingly, they're turning to citizens who do that kind of work for free.  The Environment Report's Ann Dornfeld reports on the growing influence of these "citizen scientists".

Science [2]
National (U.S.) [3]
Public [4]
Source: Citizen Scientists Help Uncle Sam [5], 09/14/2009
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/citizen-scientists-help-uncle-sam [2] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/science [3] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [4] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81 [5] http://www.environmentreport.org/story.php?story_id=4655