The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center increases the effectiveness and communication of research and science results in the national parks through...

Facilitating use of parks for scientific inquiry,

• Helping parks identify and meet high priority research needs.
• Jerry O'Neal National Park Service Student Fellowship.
• Providing housing, laboratory and field support for researchers.
• Matching graduate and undergraduate interns to park research and resource management projects.

Supporting science-informed decision making,

• promoting Sabbatical-in-the-Parks program.
• Creating park position papers that synthesize research and policy information on resource topics for park managers.

Communicating relevance of and providing access to research knowledge,

• Annual Waterton-Glacier Science and History Day for the public.
• Seasonal interpretive and concessioner training on current science issues (e.g., climate change, fire ecology).

And, promoting resource stewardship through partnerships.

• Citizen Science Common Loon Breeding Survey.
• Citizen Science in Glacier National Park's High Country.
• Citizen Science on Glacier National Park's invasive plants.