Is there a scientific way to make travel more meaningful?
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How else can you pitch in? The National Park Service and other federal agencies have volunteer projects ranging from air quality monitoring to marine ecosystem work on CitizenScience.gov. More than 1.5 million volunteers have participated in NASA’s citizen science projects, which range from analyzing air quality and soundscapes to recording sightings of fireballs and asteroids.
Nonprofits such as Earthwatch and Biosphere Expeditions connect volunteers to research projects around the world, from bee conservation to plastic pollution clean-up efforts. SciStarter, founded by Nat Geo Fellow Darlene Cavalier, lists more than 3,000 projects, from a slug survey to community mapping to working with medieval manuscripts. You can contribute to some
