Mission
Adventure Scientists is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that equips partners with data collected from the outdoors that are crucial to addressing environmental challenges.
Goals
1. Be the most efficient provider of hard-to-obtain environmental data that would otherwise be unavailable for conservation.
2. Grow a network of informed volunteers who have a deep commitment to conservation after participating in the scientific process.
3. Serve as an invaluable connection between the conservation and outdoor communities.
2. Grow a network of informed volunteers who have a deep commitment to conservation after participating in the scientific process.
3. Serve as an invaluable connection between the conservation and outdoor communities.
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Our Vision
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By scaling data collection, we envision a world in which our ability to unlock solutions to environmental issues is only limited by our ability to ask the right questions.
Data collection can be expensive, time consuming, and physically demanding, which limits the role that science currently plays in the conservation process. Adventure Scientists tackles this problem by providing our partners with reliable and otherwise unobtainable data. By recruiting, training and managing individuals with strong outdoor skills—such as mountaineering, diving or whitewater kayaking—we bring back hard-to-obtain data from the far corners of the globe. Through their involvement with these projects, volunteers become informed ambassadors for the species and places with which they work. By telling their stories in the rich tradition of outdoor adventure, we greatly magnify our partners’ marketing efforts. The Adventure Scientists' combination of constituency, visibility and data serves as an invaluable conservation accelerator around the world. |
Collecting rock samples to study high altitude microbes
Checking camera traps in the Uinta Mountain Range
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Our Organizational Values
Creativity
Taking the same path only gets you where you’ve already been. We believe in creating solutions where they don’t currently exist, and in challenging ourselves to think beyond traditional ideas, to push boundaries, to innovate and to create new approaches to traditional problems. Optimism Roadblocks occur regularly in life and in work. By maintaining a positive outlook, we navigate challenges while relying on the support of our team to avoid becoming discouraged. Persistence The greatest achievements must be earned. We give each task our all and follow through until it is complete. Achievement Ideas are only as good as the results they achieve. We identify where we can have the greatest effect, thereby choosing which battles to fight and how to best do so. Reflection Peer evaluation and self-reflection are essential components of success. In day-to-day operations, we acknowledge that each team member comes with his or her best intentions, and collectively seeks every opportunity for improvement. Stewardship You only get out what you put in. We foster individuals as we do the environment, investing in the people we want to invest in Adventure Scientists. We encourage our team to pursue a healthy work-life balance, believe in each other as individuals, and help equip and support each other to achieve personal and professional goals. |
Starting a climb in the Kichatna Spires, Alaska
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