The Dead Tree Detective is a citizen science project, run by researchers from the Western Sydney University, to collect observations of dead or dying trees around Australia. It was set-up over a year ago to help better understand the physiology of tree mortality.
The project is open to members of the public who notice dead or dying trees in your area, to upload a photograph with date and location. If you're out with your smartphone - camera and GPS required - you can take a photo, which has a geo-tag and upload to the project to pin-point what you've seen. This identifies where tree death is occurring, which can be used for future study sites for follow-up measurements on the impact.
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