2014 Landmark Stories
All of the 2014 Landmark blog entries are archived on the ASC Field Notes blog. Click here to read them.
Video: Rowing the Pacific
By Emily WolfeImagine rowing from California to Hawaii. That's 2,900 miles. Now imagine how you'd feel on Day 55. Tired? Seasick? That was the day French cousins Clement Heliot , 25, and Christophe Papillon, 27, collected samples for the ASC...
Grappling with the Wild on Sun Prairie
Story and Photos by Trent Banks As an adventurer and explorer of wild places, I live for the mystical moments when our connection to Earth—and indeed life itself—becomes more tangible. Encounters with the elements and beasts that are wilderness can take...
The Subtle Opacity of the Plains
By Elisabeth Shapiro First impressions of a barren land space can distract one from the reality of the plains. While the open landscape can feel quite transparent, much is hidden away in coulees and stream banks, or just out of sight over the nearest hill. This subtle...
Family of Sailors Collects Microplastics Samples
By Teddy, Helen and Basil Horangic Our names are Teddy (14), Helen (12) and Basil (8), and our family is taking a yearlong sabbatical to sail a semi-circumnavigation of the Earth, starting in the Black Sea and then continuing through the Mediterranean, across the...
Meet the December Landmark Crew
Several members of the November Landmark crew are staying on in December, and are joined by three new teammates, Zach, Elisabeth and Emma. Get to know the new folks here: Emma Vautour is a 2014 graduate of Messiah College, where she studied environmental...
Following the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers
By Emily WolfeWhat a coup! Our partners Marjo Boertien and Edwin Butter at Ocean Conservation have pulled off an incredible feat, enlisting crew members from 100 sailboats to collect 600 samples as they cross the Atlantic Ocean. Yes, that's right, 600 samples.The...
Microplastics Project Highlights, Fall 2014
By Abby Barrows ASC Partner Scientist This summer, ASC adventurers Teresa and Ben Carey sailed to Stonington and to hand-deliver the water samples they collected on their passage from Panama to Maine. I showed them around my lab, and had them process samples two of...
Reading the Prairie Waterlines
A frog frozen into the mud Story and Photos by Kim Tri The October and November Landmark crew didn’t witness the catastrophic floods of late summer. We never dealt with the endless rain and the gumbo roads. We didn’t visit the wreckage of the bridge across...
Film: Protecting the Great Plains
By Alex Hamilton For his first conservation-oriented project, Brooklyn, New York-based photographer and filmmaker Erik Goldstein knew he wanted something big. The American Prairie Reserve (APR) turned out to be that thing—it is big, both physically and symbolically....