Adventure Scientists is a global nonprofit organization that mobilizes skilled volunteers from the outdoor community to collect high-quality data from any environment, at any scale. Our volunteers go anywhere scientists need data, follow precise protocols, and collect data at times and intervals necessary to answer research questions.
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.
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.
High-Quality Data from Anywhere at Any Scale
Our 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.
Data QualityWe create a Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) in tandem with our scientific partners, carefully outlining data collection, storage, and analysis procedures to ensure we collect high-quality data. Questions about QAPPs? Contact us.
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ScaleOur global network of volunteers ensures that, whether you need a handful of samples or thousands, we provide data at the scale needed. We work closely with our scientific partners to design protocols using spatial analysis and other research to determine sampling locations, times, intervals, and more.
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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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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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Helping Scientists Reach Their Data Dream
If you could get data from anywhere in the world at any scale. what could you do? Watch this video to hear how wildlife biologist Betsy Howell, microbiologist Dr. Rusty Rodriguez, and disease ecologist Dr. Michael Gilmore partnered with Adventure Scientists to hunt for an elusive species, increase crop yields on farms impacted by climate change, and help identify the genes responsible for antibiotic resistance.
Cost-Efficient Data Collection
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.
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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