The Research Roundup

National Park Service scientists often publish the results of their work in peer-reviewed academic journals. These are scholarly publications, like the journal Science, where research papers are evaluated by a panel of experts before they're published. Our Research Roundup section features short, engaging summaries (no more than four paragraphs) of some of these published papers.

Summer 2025

Spring and Summer Papers

Here are synopses of just a few of the many peer-reviewed journal papers authored by National Park Service scientists in the first half of 2025.

Winter 2024-25

The Year in Review

National Park Service scientists publish the results of their work in many scholarly journals. Here’s a roundup of quick reads about some of what they accomplished this past year.