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Park Visitors Chronolog Ecosystems To Help Monitor Change
By: Laura Brennan, Biologist with the National Park Service 10 July 2020Each year three million people visit Indiana Dunes State and National Parks. At the same time, park staff are actively managing and restoring hundreds of acres of wetlands, oak savannas, and other fragile ecosystems. The...

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Visiting the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail this summer? Do NASA science on your phone
By: Peder Nelson - Oregon State University, Helen Amos & Eric Brown De Colstoun - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 30 July 2019Are you traveling along a section of the Lewis & Clark National Historic Trail this summer? Help scientists and the National Park Service map the landscape along this route using the

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Report to Congress describes the breadth and scope of Federal crowdsourcing and citizen science
By: John McLaughlin (GSA), Jay Benforado (EPA) and Sophia B Liu (USGS) 18 June 2019The federal government has a long history of interest in citizen science, where volunteers and scientists work together to answer scientific questions and expand scientific knowledge. Thomas Jefferson, for example, collected weather observations and planned...