PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN SPRING 2016 VOLUME 62 NUMBER 1 A PUBLICATION OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA SPECIAL FEATURE: BOTANICALPLANTS SOCIETY Grant RecipientsENGAGEMENT and Mentors IN CITIZEN Gather atSCIENCE Botany 2015! IN THIS ISSUE... Hawai‘i botanists com- American Journal of Botany Introducing BSA’s Education plete assessments for kicks off 2016 with two Special Technology Coordinator, Dr. IUCN Red List of Threat- Issues.... p.7 Jodi Creasap Gee... p. 34 ened Species .... p. 4 From the Editor PLANT SCIENCE BULLETIN Greetings! Editorial Committee It is fair to say that one of the current trends in Volume 62 science is the application of “Citizen Science.” Re- searchers are relying more and more on amateur scientists and the general public for data collection and increasingly incorporating crowd-sourced data into their analyses. However, this movement has not been without its challenges and skeptics. In this issue of Plant Science Bulletin, I am pleased L.K. Tuominen (2016) to present a special feature on Citizen Science as it Department of Natural Science relates to botany. On page 10, Maura Flannery de- Metropolitan State University St. Paul, MN 55106 scribes Citizen Science, discusses the response of
[email protected] the botanical community, and argues the impor- tance of these kinds of projects for plant research. Following this (page 16) are brief descriptions of projects in which BSA members and botanical in- stitutions have been involved. I want to send a spe- cial “thank you” to those of you who responded Daniel K. Gladish (2017) to my request for these project descriptions that Department of Biology & exemplify the types of citizen science that we, as The Conservatory botanists, can undertake.