**4. Discussion**

As citizen scientists contribute significant amounts of their time to collect these intricate geospatial data sets, care is taken by the custodians of those data to perform quality assurance and quality control on those data before subjecting them to rigorous scientific analysis. The raw volunteer data for each *Catch the King* survey in 2017 and 2018 were modified after initial statistics were reported to filter out and otherwise minimize bias in this study. This was in an e ffort to provide the most meaningful model validation statistics, which were reported in the results section, and were honed to validate three important factors for model validation: Duration, depth, and degree of inundation:
