Rediscovered Reports From 19th-Century Environmental Volunteers Advance the Research of Today’s Citizen Scientists in New York

Few New Yorkers today can imagine a glimmering cascade of colors from the aurora borealis filling the sky over Brooklyn, but Conrad Vispo, an ecologist for the Hawthorne Valley Farmscapes Ecology Program (HVFEP), could easily visualize the event as he read a series of records collected over 200 year...