Accuracy of long-term volunteer water monitoring data: A multiscale analysis from a statewide citizen science program.

ABSTRACT: An increasing number of citizen science water monitoring programs is continuously collecting water quality data on streams throughout the United States. Operating under quality assurance protocols, this type of monitoring data can be extremely valuable for scientists and professional agencies, but in some cases has been of limited use due to concerns about the accuracy of data collected by volunteers. Although a growing body of studies attempts to address accuracy concerns by comparing volunteer data to professional data, rarely has this been conducted with large-scale datasets generated by citizen scientists. This study assesses the relative accuracy of volunteer water quality data collected by the Texas Stream Team (TST) citizen science program from 1992-2016 across the State of Texas by

SUBMITTER: Albus KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6988940 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature