Pure Patagonia: Sampling in South America’s Final Frontier
By: Dylan Jones, Part 1 of 2 Valle Hermoso’s glacial waters drain into Lago Verde. The water in the braided streams is laden with rock flour sediment, making it too difficult to analyze for microplastics in the lab. PC: Dylan Jones I feel as if we’ve stumbled...
How to Grow a Successful Project with Us
By: Aisling Force and Nina Hadley PC: Google stock imagery Spring is in the air and Adventure Scientists is hard at work planting new project ideas. Sometimes these ideas blow in with the wind - from our website, by word of mouth, or through a contact...
The Transformative Effect of Sampling in South East Asia
By: Emma Bode and Muy Lim After wandering through lively and vibrant local markets, we are convinced that Southeast Asia is a snacking mecca. Left to right: Muy with fried ice cream rolls, fried sesame balls, Emma with pineapple rice in a pineapple, and traditional...
Lab Update: March 2017
Hello Microplastics Adventurers,Thank you for collecting water samples with the Adventure Scientists’ Worldwide Microplastics Initiative. Your efforts are helping us understand the distribution and concentration of microplastics in the world’s waters,...
Adventure Scientists Inspires Croakies to Improve Brand’s Environmental Impacts
By: Chris McCullough I first met Adventure Scientists Executive Director and Founder Gregg Treinish in January 2013 while working for Seattle-based K2 Sports. Gregg had been a longtime user and advocate of K2’s Madshus touring ski brand. From our first meeting...
River Rewards: Volunteering on the Gallatin River
By: Emma Bode Adventure Scientist Emma Bode has collected microplastic water samples around the world, including in her own backyard of Bozeman, Montana. She won our #GallatinSampling Instagram contest for best collection photo and will be receiving a Peak Design...
The Story Behind the Sample
By: Gerrit Egnew and Kirra Paulus The moment when our boats first touched water - after seventy hours of travel - was intensely gratifying. This summer, noting that there was a dearth of data in Nepal, we sought to use our particular river skills to take water samples...
A Year in the Wilderness
By: Amy Freeman Watching sunset on Ensign Lake. Photo by Dave Freeman Amy Freeman uses a secchi disc to measure water clarity on one of the more than 500 bodies of water the Freemans visited during their Year in the Wilderness. Photo by Dave Freeman My husband, Dave,...
Kayaking Everglades National Park
Story & photos by Jordan Snyder and Martina Sestakova It was our second day out and we had over six miles of open water traverse ahead of us. We clawed our way directly into oncoming waves, wind, and a flood current as the elements battled to restrain us....
Lab Update: February 2017
A red microfiber from Kirra and Gerrit's sample one. Hello Microplastics Adventurers,Thank you for collecting water samples with the Adventure Scientists’ Worldwide Microplastics project. Your efforts are helping us understand the distribution and concentration...