ASC Participants Gather Diatoms in a Study of Mountain Lakes
Diatoms help explain a changing climate High Alpine lakes can hold several species of diatoms. Dr. Bahls is studying these lakes in hopes of finding new species. Photo Credit Liam Dillaway. Adventurers and Scientists for Conservation has mobilized their athletes in...
ASC Adventurers Dave and Amy of The Wilderness Classroom Ride out Hurricane Sandy
Dave and Amy Freeman have been traveling the USA with the Wilderness Classroom. They have participated in several projects including using secchi disks to sample water turbidity and monitoring banded gulls. They were in New Jersey during Hurricane...
Science Saves the Day When Expeditions Don’t go As Planned
Sometimes adventure doesn’t work out the way you plan. The weather might turn on you before the summit of a mountain, the path might be blocked with no way around, or a giant storm serge might keep you from taking your original course. All...
Challenging Politics: Recreation as a Viable Reason to Save Natural Resources and Create Jobs
Recreation brings in plenty of revenue for many towns along the Colorado River. Photo Credit https://www.downthecolorado.org/do-healthy-rivers-make-a-stronger-economy-river-recreation-part-ii/ Will Stauffer-Norris is an ASC adventurer traveling down the Colorado River...
Coast Guard Hospitality
For this week's Adventure Wednesday We Check in With West Hanson and His Expedition Kayaking the Amazon from Source to Sea A King Toad eyes the team's equipment suspiciously. Photo Credit Amazon Express 2012...
Science on Denali: Lisa White makes Summiting Alpine Mountains Even More Rewarding by Collecting Rocks for Microbe Samples.
Lisa White collects rock samples for science on a climb of Denali in Alaska. Photo credit: Lisa White I have endeavored to climb Denali for several years, and through my preparation, planning, and training, realized that Denali is a place that few people will have the...
Finding out What Goes Bump in the Night: ASC sets up Wildlife Cameras to Aid Research in the Tobacco Root Mountains
How would you like to have this Bull Moose stomping around your campsite? This September ASC partnered with the USDA Forest Service and the Sierra Club's Military Veterans and Families Initiative to track grizzly bears in the Tobacco Root Mountains. There have...
ASC Adventurers Explore Environmental Change on Lake Powell with a Solar Powered Raft
The Jack’s Plastic Welding Solar Boat is 22 feet long with 4 solar panels. We cruised at 3-4mph most of the time and fit 5 people comfortably. Photo Credit: downthecolorado.org Will Stauffer Norris and his team are ASC Adventurers who are traveling the Colorado River...
Get a Bird’s Eye View of the Amazon with ASC Adventurer West Hanson as he paddles the river from Source to Sea
West Hanson is a National Geographic Expeditions Council Grant winner and is paddling the Amazon from Source to sea while collecting data with ASC's Pacific Biodiversity Project. Check out these videos from life on one of the wildest rivers in the world. The...
Adventure Science at Work: Citizen Scientists Find New and Rare Species in High Altitude Lakes
Dr. Loren Bahls has identified the first incidence of Cymbella Rainierensis, a diatom formerly only found in Europe, from a sample taken by adventurer Ryan Davis. Photo Credit Dr. Loren Bahls Dr. Loren Bahls is the curator of the Montana Diatom Collection, an...