Hey Science bluesky - with @scifri.bsky.social, I’m hoping to coordinate a community/citizen science effort this summer to document the progress of Beech Leaf Disease, in partnership with an org/PI who can use that data for, well, SCIENCE! Any ideas on who I should reach out to? 🍁 🧪
@tomkimmerer.bsky.social do you know?
Diana, if you put together a website, I can get a lot of my fellow broadcast Meteorologists to get the word out. Say an online page with a form for place and date and the ability to upload an image. The page can have instructions on exactly how to spot a Beech tree and look at the leaves.
bumping to the ecology/conservation feed 🌎
Have you talked to anyone at Rutgers yet? Richard Buckley (Director of the Plant Diagnostic Lab) has written about Beech Leaf Disease in NJ & might be a good source for setting up local outreach njaes.rutgers.edu/personnel/in...
A new disease of beech trees (Fagus spp.) called ‘Beech leaf disease’ (BLD) has increasingly been observed in landscaped and forested areas in the Northeastern USA and Canada. The disea…