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The summer season has our team in full gear, and our growing business is opening new opportunities to join our team and contribute to the work of Adventure Scientists. Whether you're an experienced non-profit operations person or someone just getting started in a career in volunteer management or conservation, there are great options for you and we'd love to get to know you. Learn more and apply below!  

The Administrative Coordinator provides key support to both the Executive Director and the Operations Manager, applying organizational, communication, and creative problem-solving skills to manage schedules and streamline operations.

​The Projects Team Assistant will report to the Scientific Director and will work closely with all members of the projects team assisting with logistics of volunteer management, including shipping equipment and samples, planning events, and processing and reporting on project data.

"Earth Focus"is an environmental news magazine produced by the Public Media Group of Southern California that features investigative reports and in-depth stories about our changing environment and how it affects people around the world.

Season 2, now airing on broadcast tv and available online, examines how communities are transitioning and adapting from different energy sources and how the laws of supply and demand affect the environment and people in different ways.

For Episode 3, the the show takes on the world of illegal logging and features Adventure Scientists' Timber Tracking project through interviews and footage of our scientific partners at the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory, and two of our volunteers, Gisele and Renê Guerra, at work in the field.

It's a great opportunity to see the faces and hear the voices of both adventurers and scientists working on this high-stakes issue. Enjoy and help spread the word by sharing with your social networks!

We've been excited about this project for a while and are thrilled to share the resulting film with you. Great Big Story is a media company "dedicated to inspiring wonder and curiosity" and they've done a beautiful job highlighting our Timber project and more!

It features our work on several projects with U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, World Resources Institute, Harvard Medical School, and College of the Atlantic, stretching back to some of our earliest efforts.

Most excitingly, it doesn't talk only about the adventure of data collection, it catches you up on the major progress in conservation and scientific understanding that comes from our partners working with all the data long after the volunteers are home from their adventures.

And we couldn't have done it or keep doing it without the great support of Sunski, CLIF Bar Family Foundation, Croakies, Peak Design, Klean Kanteen, and Patagonia.

So sit back, relax, and enjoy some vicarious Adventure Scientists volunteering with Gregg in the field! And get ready for his son's big debut towards the end!

With the tremendous effort of more than a hundred volunteers, we succeeded in sampling over 1000 bigleaf maple trees scattered from the canyons of southern California to the fjords of British Columbia for our Timber Tracking project.

The season is all but closed with a total of 972 leaf samples and 86 sets of wood samples. We couldn't be more proud of this landmark data collection effort, and we're grateful for each and every one of our volunteers.

The samples the team collected will be used to build a genetic database of the species, which will give authorities a powerful new tool to identify the origin of suspicious timber, and bring an end to the activities of illegal loggers.

In the animation below, watch the samples fill the map of bigleaf maple's range as the dates of the season run by at the bottom.

With all the samples collected, the team is now focused on wrapping up and celebrating. Sampling gear needs to be returned, we hosted a virtual happy hour webinar, and there's the end-of-the-season survey for volunteers to fill out. The feedback from surveys like this help us constantly learn from our volunteers and shape each field season for each project to be a success.

Although we're sad to say goodbye to the leafy season, we are excited to keep working with each of our volunteers over the fall and winter months. And further down the line we'll share our comprehensive 2018 field season summary and reports on our partners' preliminary scientific findings. 

Thanks everyone who participated directly in the project, as well as everyone who supported it through your broader support of Adventure Scientists!