eMammal – Museum based citizen science camera trapping as a solution for wildlife monitoring

The new eMammal project addresses three concerns: wildlife conservation, urbanized societies losing connection with nature, and the need for science education of our citizens.  We address these with a wildlife monitoring program that engages citizens to run camera traps. In our first field season we recruited and trained 85 volunteers who deployed cameras to 687 sites in 12 parks and collected over 25K animal detections. We are expanding this work with online infrastructure to allow citizens to explore the data, and with field programs through museums and universities to get more people of all ages involved.