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The rallying call-to-arms for ordinary people toengage with their community and contribute to scientific discovery from theirhome, backyard, office, and neighborhood

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`Told with humour and care about the volunteers and their effort, this is a fantastic introduction to citizen science’ -- Muki Haklay, Co-Director of Extreme Citizen Science, University College London `Cooper provides that rarest of things: a hopeful road forward… on which millions, perhaps billions, have the tools necessary to empower themselves. Read this book if you care about the future’ -- Rob Dunn, award-winning author of Every Living Thing and The Wild Life of Our Bodies `Ordinary people have been making extraordinary contributions. Prepare to be inspired’ -- Steven Strogatz, Cornell University and author of The Joy of X

`Told with humour and care about the volunteers and their effort, this is a fantastic introduction to citizen science' -- Muki Haklay, Co-Director of Extreme Citizen Science, University College London `Cooper provides that rarest of things: a hopeful road forward... on which millions, perhaps billions, have the tools necessary to empower themselves. Read this book if you care about the future' -- Rob Dunn, award-winning author of Every Living Thing and The Wild Life of Our Bodies `Ordinary people have been making extraordinary contributions. Prepare to be inspired' -- Steven Strogatz, Cornell University and author of The Joy of X

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CAREN COOPER is an associate professor of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University and assistant head of the Biodiversity Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. She studies bird ecology, conservation, and management through the use of citizen science. She served as an advisor to the documentary mini-series The Crowd & The Cloud. She is a blogger at the Public Library of Science and Discover, and guest blogger at Scientific American. She is the director of partnerships at SciStarter.com http://www.carencooper.com

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