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Adventure Scientists is a nonprofit organization that designs and manages large scale data collection projects in collaboration with our partners. Each project is custom-designed to ensure that you are able to access the tools and data you need.

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We are proud to partner with you in the following ways:

Project Design & Feasibility Research

Feasibility, logistics, right-sizing data collection, budgeting, technology assessment, cultivating local partners and data end-users

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Project Build

Training, quality assurance/quality control, permitting, equipment and technology sourcing

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Volunteer Recruiting & Screening

Communication campaigns, application process and recruiter management

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Full Project Management

Volunteer training/management, local capacity building and community engagement

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What our partners have to say:

“We have a tool now to reach many extreme environments in a relatively short amount of time.”

Dragos Zaharescu, University of Arizona, Biosphere 2

“We now have a bigger team to explore and discover everything better, working with Adventure Scientists.”

Yadi Wang, University of Arizona

“By partnering with Adventure Scientists and engaging the outdoor community I have access to previously unobtainable data, which has propelled my research in plastic pollution to the forefront of the field.”

Abby Barrows, College of the Atlantic

“Adventures Scientists connects us as a coral colony to collaborate and further build our coral reef conservation network.”

Dr. Alma Paola Rodríguez Troncoso, University of Guadalajara

“These wilderness adventurers supplied us with good, well-documented data … that allowed us to redraw the distribution map and added new evidence to an important hypothesis about how ice worms disperse.”

Roman Dial, Alaska Pacific University

“Half of my study I owe to the samples I got from [Adventure Scientists], and all the samples are vouchers now in the herbarium, so other people can use them. It’s quite a huge resource now.”

loana Onut Brännström, Uppsala University

“Adventure Scientists’ ability to seamlessly manage diverse volunteers and collect quality data in a challenging environment allowed me to focus on management implications. I highly recommend working with them.”

Kyran Kunkel, American Prairie Reserve

“[Adventure Scientists] was crucial in conducting the Olympic National Forest’s winter marten surveys, and this season’s work would not have been such a success without their efforts.”

Betsy Howell, U. S. Forest Service

“Adventure Scientists’ efforts provided us access to remote sampling sites that we would never have reached otherwise. The volunteers were careful to follow our protocols, making the data highly trustworthy.”

Michael Gilmore, Harvard Medical School

“[Adventure Scientists] provided benefits to APR not only through their collection of data but also through their photos, videos, stories, and interactions with the local communities.”

Betty Holder, American Prairie Reserve

“Working with Adventure Scientists has saved numerous person-hours, which eventually translates to quite a bit of cost savings in addition to time savings.”

Liza Holeski, Northern Arizona University

“The crew had great attitudes and worked well with our staff. I look forward to working with such enthusiastic and willing learners in the coming field season.”

Matthew McCollister, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

“[Adventure Scientists’] ability to reach a wide audience by connecting with elite athletes provides an exceptional service to scientists.”

Natalie Kehrwald, U. S. Geological Survey

“The Adventure Scientists crew was a great help with our intensive field research evaluating the efficacy of an experimental vaccine to protect prairie dogs from plague.”

Randy Matchett, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Additional Ways We Partner

Technology audit: We make recommendations about the best 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 projects have been featured across hundreds of national and international news outlets. Our communications team will help elevate your work across earned and owned media platforms.

Funding assistance: Through our own fundraising, we meet people who are interested in our partners and projects. We provide connections and make introductions whenever they make sense.

High-Quality Data From Nearly 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 many citizen science efforts. Each project begins with our design and feasibility study. During this process, we conduct thorough research to ensure that we collect the right kind and amount of data to ensure that your end goals are met.

Data Quality

We 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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Scale

Our model ensures that you can access the samples you need at otherwise unachievable scales, both temporally and spatially. We work closely with our partners to design protocols using spatial analysis and other research to determine sampling locations, times, intervals, and more.

Access

We work with communities and outdoor volunteers who can collect data from anywhere you need it – whether that’s a remote mountaintop, a river, or across the world’s oceans. Each project complies with local, national, and international requirements, ensuring safe and ethical data collection.

Experience

Through more than 130 projects that we have managed on behalf of our conservation partners, we have iterated our processes and perfected the art of mobilizing teams to collect high-quality data around the world.

What’s Your 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.

Our Project Selection Criteria

We are selective about the projects in which we invest. This ensures we’re meeting our mission to advance critical environmental research. Our criteria are: