Apps for Outdoor Labs and Fieldwork

There are about 1 millions apps each for iOS and Android, plus another 200,000 more for Windows, so any attempt to survey all apps suitable for outdoor labs, fieldwork, or citizen science is futile. Instead, here are several compilations by other folks.

• Mobile Geoscience by Frank Granshaw at Portland Community College.
• Smartphone Apps for Field Biologist is a list maintained by the Bruna Lab for Tropical Ecology at the University of Florida.
• Wallace and Witus (2013, Table 1)

Here are some apps I recently came across:

• GeoSciTeach is customizable app for science fieldwork described by Price et al. (2014). Read more about it on their project website.
• Fulcrum is great (albeit not cheap) and OpenDataKit is the open-source equivalent.
• Snap2Map works with ArcGIS Online to create Story Maps.
• SeeClickFix is more of a citizen mapping tool.
• EpiCollect is a GPS-tagged data collection app and web-based data sharing platform. iNaturalist and Spotter and NIEmGEO are similar to EpiCollect.
• FieldScope is an online mapping and data collection tool by the National Geographic Society and Fieldtrip GB is great for data collection on field trips and citizen science projects.
• Moose Survey or The Great Koala Count or Merlin Bird ID by eBird or Magpie Mapper or Project BudBurst or the Coastal Walkabout.
• Autodesk 123D Catch generates 3D models from 'regular' images and EarthViewer let's you explore Earth's history and GeoFieldBook is a field book app for iOS.
• Appernathy is a field data collection app for salamander observations. 

Not finding what you are looking for? How about creating your own Android app with the MIT App Inventor, but make sure you consider the advice by Teacher et al. (2013). Or, build your own field data collection app using GeoSciTeach or ask me for support.