by Adventure Scientists | Aug 3, 2015 | Gallatin Microplastics, microplastics, oceans, river
The issue of microplastics pollution is drawing national attention, and ASC has been at the heart of the discussion this summer, with both our Worldwide Microplastics Project and the Gallatin Microplastics Initiative featured in Outside Magazine, Yellowstone...
by Adventure Scientists | Jul 30, 2015 | camera trap, Uinta Mountains
Wildlife and Solitude in the High Uintas The women stop to survey the trail ahead on the East Fork of Black’s Fork. (Photo by Lila Leatherman) By Dory TrimbleASC Uintas Adventurer Our day starts in the water. The rocks are slick, brown, unreliable against our...
by Adventure Scientists | Jul 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Thomas Offer-WestortASC Landmark Crew MemberWhen I got the email inviting me to join the Landmark crew, I was ecstatic. I danced in my kitchen and then ran through my apartment to see if anyone was home. We were a pretty solitary bunch who had only met each other...
by Adventure Scientists | Jul 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
Turtles dancing offshore in Mexico. Writing and Photography by Ryan SmithASC Microplastics AdventurerI gaze up at a dizzying school of swarming silver jacks, holding my breath, for a brief moment, time stands still. Free diving the remote Isla Isabella 80 miles off...
by Adventure Scientists | Jul 21, 2015 | climbing, mountaineering, skiing, snow
By Ian Bolliger ASC Snow and Ice Adventurer On May 20, Peter McCarthy and I landed at Kahiltna Base Camp with the goal of summiting Denali and skiing the Orient Express or Messner Couloirs. Two days later, Dave and Hollie Leonard joined us and we set off. The week or...
