Zooming in on microscopic images of liverworts on the screen, participants drew vertical and horizontal lines across the leaves, producing thousands of data points for the study’s authors to review.
Nidhi Thirthamattur, right, a 15-year-old Nequa Valley High School student, and Melanie Pivarski, associate professor of mathematics at Roosevelt University, look at a microscopic view of a liverwort specimen in a laboratory at the Field Museum on June 27, 2022.
Holding up a dried plant from the Field Museum’s herbarium, Matt von Konrat — head of plant collections at the museum and one of the study’s co-authors — pointed at the plant’s label. The plant’s name may be unappealing, some scientists say, but cataloging liverworts is important to understanding the effects of climate change.
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