by Chrissy Very | Sep 4, 2026 | adventurer spotlight, citizen science, hiking
Guest writer and volunteer, Serena, shares her POV from the Cascade Brook and Mount Pemigewasset trails. Experience eight miles in the backwoods and a fast-moving storm on her search for threatened butternut trees. Watch Serena’s experience here → Serena is an...
by Chrissy Very | Aug 25, 2026 | adventurer spotlight, Audio, biodiversity, hiking, pacific northwest
Matt Leitzinger spent a June Saturday placing acoustic recorders in trailless country in the Glacier Peak Wilderness. By late summer, fires were surrounding them. There’s a word for it, and Matt Leitzinger didn’t learn it until afterward. He had described the worst...
by Chrissy Very | Aug 19, 2026 | Audio, biodiversity, conservation, hiking, pacific northwest
With wildfire season approaching, more than 100 wildlife recorders still need to be retrieved from remote forests across the Pacific Northwest. Every device recovered helps turn months of sound recordings into valuable conservation data. Somewhere in the backcountry...
by Chrissy Very | Aug 14, 2026 | adventurer spotlight, Video
A chirp from a rockslide at Mount Rainier pulled the Soltys family into community science with Adventure Scientists. A decade later: published data, two science degrees, and a board seat. It started with a noise coming from a pile of rocks. A decade ago, John Soltys...
by Chrissy Very | Jul 23, 2026 | Audio, biodiversity, citizen science, pacific northwest
What happens when the data needed to protect forests, wildlife, and public lands lives in places most people will never see? When longtime Adventure Scientists volunteer Ryan read the project description, she laughed. “Bushwhacking into the woods after a 20-mile...
