Guest Post: The Grand Salmon Source to Sea Expedition
How do conservationists speak for the animals and places that need protection? From gathering scientific data to storytelling, conservation has many tools to draw on. This summer, four women are giving voice to a river and its ecosystem by embarking on an epic 1000+...
Guest Post: Genuine Relationship Building for Conservation
Adventure Scientists is thrilled to share this essay from friend of the organization Magali Rojas. Magali and friend Aida Winters helped to demonstrate protocols for our Timber Tracking: Eastern Black Walnut training in 2021. She works with the Heartland Conservation...
Guest Post: Black Walnuts on the Black Fork – Citizen Science Close to Home
Note: We are thrilled to feature this article from Dylan Jones, who volunteered with us for the Timber Tracking: Eastern Black Walnut project. Read the article here or where it was originally published in Highland Outdoors, West Virginia's only independent outdoor...
Guest Post: Meet the River Cowboy of the Red River
We asked volunteers with our Wild and Scenic Rivers project to share their favorite river stories. Enjoy the winning submission, a tribute to an outstandingly dedicated friend of the Red River in Kentucky by Laura Gregory, Kentucky Waterways Alliance Red River...
Adventures on the Alatna and Noatak Rivers
Adventure Scientists team members, Ricky Jones (Technology Manager), Gregg Treinish (Founder & Executive Director), and Mike Herring (Board Member), spent ten days backpacking and packrafting in remote areas of Alaska to collect data for the Wild and Scenic Rivers...
Volunteer Spotlight: Conor O’Brian Cycling Art
Rainstorms, a nerve-racking bear encounter, 5,000-foot ascents up mountain passes: Sounds exactly like a Rocky Mountain bikepacking trip. Three volunteers with Adventure Scientists’ Wildlife Connectivity project turned their data-collection trip into a week-long,...
Volunteer Spotlight: Ellie Friedmann in Southern Oregon’s Kalmiopsis Wilderness
Ellie Friedmann takes water quality measurements from the North Fork of the Smith Wild and Scenic River in Oregon, during an early summer trip. Photo credit: Ellie and Northwest Rafting Co. Adventure Scientists' volunteers get to explore the outdoors with a mission....
Volunteer Spotlight: Alaska Yellow-Cedar with Stéphanie and Josef
Few trails, fewer roads, and endless adventure: For Alaska Panhandle residents Stéphanie Hayes and Josef Quitslund, volunteering to collect samples of yellow-cedar trees means battling spiny devil's club, balancing on mossy logs suspended over the forest floor,...
WATCH: Stories of Adventuring for Science!
From blasting through river rapids to rock-hopping along the spines of continents, our volunteers have amazing adventure stories from their pursuit of scientific data. In December, we invited four volunteers to share their stories as part of our...
Despite Contentious Election, Key Conservation and Science Issues Win Big
Gray wolves will be reintroduced to western Colorado following voter approval of a November ballot initiative. The drama surrounding the 2020 US presidential election has overshadowed some key victories for science and conservation. Feeling anxious waiting for...
