Full Project Management

Need to receive high quality data and have someone manage the rest? 

​Many partners find that their collection desires outstrip their capacity to build and manage a large-scale project.  Our team of project managers, technology experts, and experienced field scientists can build the project infrastructure and manage volunteers and data at any scale.

1. Feasibility Research

Our full project management services begin with feasibility research service. 

2. Project Build

We will build the project infrastructure necessary to collect your data, including:
  • Custom volunteer trainings
  • ​A QA/QC protocol for field collection, handling, and shipment in compliance with your data quality standards and methods, including the development of a QAPP
  • Conducting permitting, access, and permissions research
  • Sourcing field equipment and technology, as well as other supplies
  • Other aspects of project planning critical to your needs.

3. Recruiting+Screening

Our process ensures that we carefully screen volunteers with the required outdoor experience to ensure that they can execute the protocol safely and efficiently. 

4. Project Management

Our staff remains involved throughout the length of your field collection experience to ensure that volunteers are safe, engaged, and supported to collect quality data.

​Likewise, our team handles data, logistics, and the headaches that come along with managing a large-scale, multi-year field effort so that your time and resources can be used more efficiently to analyze and act on the data.

5. Reporting

At the conclusion of the work or at other intervals as needed, we will provide you with a comprehensive report detailing our efforts. We can also create reports you may need for project partners or funders. 

Our communications team can provide media outreach support by developing storytelling opportunities on your channels and ours, and by pitching stories to news, radio, TV and digital media outlets. Our projects have been featured across hundreds of national and international news outlets. Visit our press page to learn more. 

Spotlight: Volunteer Management

Our staff stays in regular contact with volunteers throughout their volunteer experience. This ensures they:
  • work safely and ethically
  • receive timely updates about changing site accessibility
  • carry all necessary permit documentation
  • carefully adhere to the protocols
  • complete their data collection in a timely manner, and
  • receive any specific support they need to succeed.
We also stay in touch after they’ve completed their work to make sure they feel valued for their contributions and to keep them updated on the research they have supported.

Spotlight: Data Collection Management

If your project requires physical samples, we can source and manage sampling equipment. We can also oversee shipping of the collected samples to your lab of choice. 
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If the work results in digital data, we can build a custom mobile app to enable volunteers to upload their data in the field. Our apps also include an offline function for remote work and can integrate with databases your organization may use to store your data.

Case Study: Antibiotic Resistance, Harvard Medical School

To combat antibiotic-resistance microbial “superbugs” through genome research, Harvard needed animal scat samples collected from around the world. They selected our full project service – we managed the project through delivering the samples.
“Adventure Scientists goes to places where others don’t generally go. [The organization] does a great job of explaining to adventurers what the approach is and how to package samples as best as they can given the challenges of being in extremely difficult locations and remote locations.
- Mike Gilmore, Director, Harvard Infectious Disease Institute

Looking for a different service? 

Select one to discover how we tailor our services to your needs:

I need project design and feasibility answers before I proceed
I need need carefully screened volunteers, but I can train and manage
I need fundraising and development​ help
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