Adventurer Update – Ricky Munday
Ricky Munday and the South America 3 Peaks Expedition collect their first sample on Monte Pissis Ricky Munday is a humanitarian aid worker with the Canadian Red Cross in Haiti and team leader of the South America 3 Peaks Expedition. Ricky has been on previous missions...
Adventurer Update – Sage Clegg
Sage Clegg and the "Mysterious Gross Stuff" Sage Clegg is a thru-hiker extraodinaire and wildlife biologist from Bend, OR pioneered the new Oregon Desert Trail this past summer. She worked closely with the Oregon Natural Desert Association - a wild desert advocacy...
Project spotlight: Landmark
Return to the winter prairie "This is the place you were looking for as a kid when you went outside to explore; there is so much space, so much to observe."- Julia Johannesen, ASC Posted by Mike Kautz, ASC Program DirectorJust before the Christmas...
Project Highlight – Ocean Microplastics
Help Save Our Oceans! Join ASC's Microplastics Project By Mike Kautz Steve Weileman collecting water samples off of Augustine Island. When paddler, filmmaker and ASC adventure scientist Steve Weileman bottled his first sample of sea water off a remote, undeveloped...
Adventurer Spotlight: Carl Battreal
I Hate Cold Water Carl Battreall is an Alaska based, professional mountain and glacier photographer who has explored and photographed over two hundred glaciers in twelve mountains ranges in Alaska. His glacier images have been published in countless books and...
From the Field: Gregg’s African Adventure
Who Says Work Can't Be Fun? Gregg Treinish is the founder and Executive Director of Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation whose passion to protect wild places is all consuming. Gregg is both an adventurer and a scientist and his resume boasts of ecology degrees...
Adventurer Interview: Marjo & Edwin
Life Aboard the Orion Edwin Butter is a HSE certified commercial diver and a pilot. He has traveled around the world for the past 15 years now and experienced wildlife in different regions from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Marjo Boertien is a business consultant...
Adventurer Highlight – John Davis and TrekWest
TrekWest: John Davis' Journey to Conserve the West John Davis is a wildways scout, editor, and writer and co-founded the Wildlands Network 20 years ago. In 2011 John completed TrekEast, a 7,500-mile human powered exploration of the wilder parts of the eastern North...
From the Field: Gregg in Africa
Africa from Gregg's Perspective This past week ASC's fearless leader, founder and executive director Gregg Treinish has been halfway across the world on the wild continent of Africa. While the rest of us in Bozeman suffered at the hands of -30 degree days (yes,...
Project Spotlight: Repeat Glacier Photography
Taking Photos to Understand Climate Change As adventurers and outdoor athletes we often are inspired by wild and rugged places, especially mountain ranges covered in glaciers and ice fields. The power and beauty of these natural wonders has inspired countless...