National parks across the US face several threats each and every day. These threats come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, but all need to be tackled to protect our nation's most prolific natural reserves. In this paper, we discuss the nature of the most critical challenges that national parks face and potential solutions that utilize modern and promising new technologies. With rapidly changing ecosystems, the best way to conserve the parks include implementing artificial intelligence, remote sensing, and more collaborative efforts with local communities to not only preserve the parks as they are, but to predict future changes and how to best mitigate detrimental effects.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• DeWitt, Li
• Smith, Justin
• Albert, William
• Patel, Meera
• McCue, Quinn

Subject

• Environment
• Sustainability

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 113436
• E-project-082923-165508

Keyword

• Artificial Intelligence
• National Parks
• Climate Change
• Technology

Advisor

• Bianchi, Frederick W.

Year

• 2023

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
• 13 - Climate Action
• 15 - Life On Land

Date created

• 2023-08-29

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-082923-165508

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-12-04