Members of the public, citizen scientists, participatory scientists, and volunteers in science help to equip the National Park Service with the best available scientific data for making management decisions. The data they collect provides a much larger and more comprehensive data set than NPS employees and partners can accomplish on their own. As a result, public participation in the scientific process helps the National Park Service to preserve and protect the places we care about.
Read on to learn how data collected by members of the public is applied to park management.
Let Me Count the Ways
How Citizen Scientists Helped a Park Measure Visitor Impacts
Citizen-based Acoustic Bat Monitoring
Along the Colorado and San Juan Rivers
Read about the applications of citizen science to managing the National Park System. These reports, flyers, and data sets demonstrate the uses of data collected and processed by members of the public. Click on a link to access the NPS Integrated Resource Management Applications (IRMA) Data Store. Most listings include downloadable files.
Source: Data Store Collection 9468. To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.
Last updated: May 6, 2024