From Permit to New Knowledge: Improving Institutional Accountability and User Access by Tracking Documentation from Research Projects in Grand Teton National Park

Abstract

In Summer 2011, the author undertook a number of projects for the Museum & Archives in the Science and Resource Management division of Grand Teton National Park (GRTE[i]). Alice Hart, Museum Curator and Archivist for the Park, supervised the work, which was part of an internship for graduate credit[ii]. The two major project categories were 1) Research Permits and 2) Biological Science Program Files.