Who is saving our streamflow data? Exploring volunteer profiles and their engagement in the SIREN data rescue project

PLoS One. 2025 Oct 9;20(10):e0333091. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0333091. eCollection 2025. ABSTRACT SIREN is a citizen science project that involves lay people in the digitization of historical daily discharge measurements from Italian rivers. Such data, largely available only in printed yearbooks, hinders scientific progress in hydrological studies and water resource management. In this article, we examine the…