We offer the following on a fee-for-service basis:
Additional Services
- Technology audit: Through our advisors and various partnerships, we are able to offer a full review of the latest and greatest field-collection technologies available. Whether it's drones, sensors, camera traps, or machine learning, we can help design the most time- and cost-effective way to get you the data you need.
- Media and outreach: Our communications team can provide media outreach support by developing storytelling opportunities on your platforms 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.
- Project development assistance: We offer selected partners a grant writer who will help identify and draft project funding appeals.
Why Choose Us?
Our extensive experience in project planning and management has taught us how to overcome perceived or actual issues with data quality and bias associated with traditional citizen science efforts. We work closely with our scientific partners to carefully design protocols, using spatial analysis to guide how we choose sampling locations and conducting thorough research to determine other research parameters (e.g. when to collect data, etc.)
This level of research ensures we collect the right kind and right amount of data to meet your needs.
This level of research ensures we collect the right kind and right amount of data to meet your needs.
ScaleOur global network for volunteers ensure that, whether you need a handful of samples or thousands, we can provide data at the scale needed.
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AccessOur volunteers are hikers, whitewater kayakers, mountaineers, rock climbers, divers, sailors and more. They can collect data from anywhere you need it – whether that’s a remote mountaintop or across the world’s oceans.
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QualityWe focus on data quality as our number one priority. We carefully design our training and field collection protocols in tandem with our scientific partners, lending our experience-driven insight to control for quality and to scale the effort appropriately for your research goals.
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ExperienceThrough more than 130 projects that we have managed on behalf of scientific partners, we have iterated our processes and perfected the art of mobilizing skilled volunteers to collect high-quality data around the world.
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Cost-Efficient Data Collection
During the COVID-19 emergency, we are adjusting our fee schedule to enable scientists to develop risk-free contingency plans for delayed or cancelled field seasons with no upfront costs. Learn more.
We charge for our work, ensuring we can support scientists well into the future. Our partners have found that the cost per sample tends to be much lower than traditional methods of data collection. Our costs are structured to be an economy of scale. The bigger the scale you need data from, the more cost-effective our services will be.
Your cost will depend on which services you select and factors such as how many volunteers you need, where and for how long they will work, and how specialized they need to be. Working within your financial constraints, we will provide a complete budget before the project build phase begins.
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a GuideStar Platinum certification, we are committed to full transparency with our costs.
We charge for our work, ensuring we can support scientists well into the future. Our partners have found that the cost per sample tends to be much lower than traditional methods of data collection. Our costs are structured to be an economy of scale. The bigger the scale you need data from, the more cost-effective our services will be.
Your cost will depend on which services you select and factors such as how many volunteers you need, where and for how long they will work, and how specialized they need to be. Working within your financial constraints, we will provide a complete budget before the project build phase begins.
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit with a GuideStar Platinum certification, we are committed to full transparency with our costs.
Our Project Selection Criteria
We are selective about which projects we accept. This ensures we’re meeting our mission to advance critical environmental and human health research. Our criteria are:
The project must address an environmental or human health issue to which advancing a solution has previously been data-limited.
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There must be a clear pathway from data collection to lasting impact.
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There must be a clear need for the outdoor community.
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Recent Project Partners
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World Class Explorers Help Scientists Collect Elusive Data
Learn more about what we do in this short documentary about our work with scientist Abby Barrows.
What the scientific community has to say:
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