ABSTRACT
This chapter provides guidance to help student groups implement outdoor data collection once a study has been designed. Guidance is provided on how and why to practice collecting data before going outdoors. Next, guidance is provided for how to manage multiple student groups while they are outdoors, how to foresee and mitigate common logistical issues, and how to support effective data recording and sampling. Last, guidance is provided on how and why to secure data after collecting it, including organizing information from multiple students and catching common data entry errors.
