Field Notes Conservation Impact Stories
Volunteer-powered science, partner breakthroughs, and real-world conservation solutions
Filling the Whitebark Pine Data Gap
A volunteer on skis can find what the Forest Service can't easily reach. Here's how ski tourers and splitboarders are...
Where Adventure Scientists Is Headed: A Fixed Point on the Horizon
Adventure Scientists' new Executive Director, Lara Birkes, names the fixed point Adventure Scientists is steering...
In Roatán, Women Are Running the Reef Work
This photograph from Roatán shows a team loading dive tanks onto a boat before a reef monitoring run. Every person in...
I Hiked Eight Miles Looking for Butternut Trees and Didn’t Find One. That’s Still Data.
Guest writer and volunteer, Serena, shares her POV from the Cascade Brook and Mount Pemigewasset trails. Experience...
Shrubmarining: A Volunteer’s Journey Into Forests Before The Fires
Matt Leitzinger spent a June Saturday placing acoustic recorders in trailless country in the Glacier Peak Wilderness....
The Race to Beat Wildfire Season
With wildfire season approaching, more than 100 wildlife recorders still need to be retrieved from remote forests...
How One Family’s Hikes Became a Decade of Data & Two Science Degrees
A chirp from a rockslide at Mount Rainier pulled the Soltys family into community science with Adventure Scientists. A...
The Reality of Conservation Fieldwork: A Day in the Pacific Northwest Forest Biodiversity Project
What happens when the data needed to protect forests, wildlife, and public lands lives in places most people will...
How Communities Across Latin America Are Building One of the Largest Coral Reef Monitoring Networks in the World
With Adventure Scientists, local communities in Latin America are building one of the largest coordinated coral reef...