Find a FieldScope Project

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Many FieldScope projects are open to participation from across North America and even internationally. Topics that projects are investigating include water quality, plant life cycle phenology, night sky pollution, and more. FieldScope projects that are open to the public are listed on the FieldScope website here and include:

National/International Projects

Project Name	Type	Scope
Budburst	Plant monitoring	Budburst brings together researchers, educators, gardeners, and citizen scientists on a shared journey to uncover the stories of plants and animals affected by human impacts on the environment.
FrogWatchUSA	Species monitoring	Get trained to listen to frogs and toad calls in your area to help us monitor local frog populations, rare and invasive species, and shifts in species diversity, range, and seasonal timing.
Globe at Night Plus	Astronomical monitoring	The Globe at Night program is an international citizen-science campaign to raise public awareness of the impact of light pollution by inviting citizen-scientists to measure their night sky brightness and submit their observations from a computer or smartphone.
Journey North	Species monitoring	Learn about monarch and hummingbird migration data gathered over the last 25 years. Register with Journey North to participate!
WaterInsights	Water quality monitoring	WaterInsights is a citizen science project for freshwater monitoring. Use our testing kit to monitor the water in your school, home, or neighborhood creek.

 

Regional Projects

Project Name	Type	Scope
Bat Activity Trends	Species monitoring	With the Bat Activity Trends (BAT) Community Science Program, engage in bat conservation science collecting data on bat sightings from your own home, local parks, or neighborhoods.
Chesapeake Watershed Project	Water quality monitoring	Contribute, explore, and analyze water quality data across the Chesapeake Bay watershed region.
Chesapeake Water Watch	Water quality monitoring	Help collect data to understand the extent to which researchers can use satellite data to monitor water quality data from space!
Citizens Restoring American Chestnuts	Plant monitoring	The Appalachian Laboratory and The American Chestnut Foundation are working with western Maryland residents to “crack the code” to re-establish American chestnut trees.
Clark County Student Watershed Monitoring Network	Water quality monitoring	If you are a K-12 teacher working in Clark County, WA, you and your classes can learn to monitor water quality in local waterways.
Great Lakes Limno Loan	Water quality monitoring	Dive into Water Science! This program provides the opportunity for educators across the U.S. Great Lakes basin to borrow actual monitoring equipment used by scientists in the field and for students to experience collecting and analyzing real water quality data.
Great Smoky Mountains	Multiple	Great Smoky Mountains National Park has many participatory science projects that interested individuals or groups can contribute to, including Lichen Monitoring, Ozone Biomonitoring, Salamander Monitoring, Snail Monitoring, Terrestrial Invertebrate Monitoring, and Water Quality Monitoring.
ISEAS (Inland Seas) Schoolship	Species and water quality monitoring	When you bring your class on board the schooner, your students will gain a unique insight into the basic ecology of the Great Lakes. Students become scientists for the day and assist seasoned volunteer instructors with the collection and analysis of Great Lakes samples.
Lacamas Watershed Council	Water quality monitoring	Collect and analyze water samples to assess water quality weekly in Lacamas Creek Watershed’s 3 lakes (Lacamas, Round and Fallen Leaf lake).
Loko Ea Fish Pond Restoration (Hawaii)	Species and water quality monitoring	A community science project designed for schools and the moku to work alongside staff at the Mālama Loko Ea Foundation in restoring Loko ea, a traditional Hawaiian fishpond on the North Shore of Oʻahu.
Monitoring Salton Sea Water Quality	Water quality monitoring	Help build the tools and gather the necessary information to contribute to city council meetings and public comments about future projects affecting the Salton Sea.
Our Forests	Plant monitoring	Help determine how the forests of the Sierra Nevada Foothills are changing. Join 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classrooms that are collecting data to assess health and fire resilience.
River Otter Ecology/ Spotting Otters on the Verde River	Species monitoring	Learn about otter data gathered in the San Francisco Bay area from 2012 to 2017. If you live in Arizona, help monitor river otters in the Verde River Watershed.
Sharks of California	Species monitoring	Log your sightings of California coastal shark species. We are empowering people to photograph and submit sightings of coastal California shark species so that scientists and marine conservation managers can better understand behaviors of coastal shark species and trends in their movements and populations.
TickTalk	Species monitoring	Join this Maryland State Parks project to learn about the tick populations in the western Maryland region. Citizens send found ticks and scientists identify, map, and test them for pathogens.
#WeAreCoastal (east coast Canada, northeastern United States)	Biodiversity monitoring	The first digital platform connecting schools in coastal communities on the east coast of Canada and the Northeast United States to enable students to connect and collaborate on coastal monitoring projects.
Yukon River Watershed (Alaska, Yukon, and British Columbia)	Water quality monitoring	The Indigenous Observation Network (ION) is the largest international, Indigenous initiative combining Indigenous Knowledge and western science to research, sustain and protect the Yukon River Watershed, its resources and cultures.

Looking to start your own FieldScope project? Projects can be large scale and open to participation across wide geographies and also micro scale and include participation in a small region or area. Find out more about launching a project.

Please note: Not all FieldScope projects are open to public participation from any location. Please check out individual projects to learn more about how to participate.