by Chrissy Very | Oct 10, 2026 | community, conservation, coral, ocean, oceans
Andrea Calix traded volunteer hours for dive training on Roatán. Now she monitors the reef she hopes her daughter will inherit. A volunteer records data along a transect during a reef survey. Ask Andrea Calix why community members should be the ones collecting...
by Chrissy Very | Oct 9, 2026 | community, conservation, coral, film festival, oceans
A new short film follows the volunteer divers who monitor coral reefs in Bahía de Banderas, on Mexico’s Pacific coast where our Latin American reef network started in 2020. Our new short film follows a coral reef monitoring team in Bahía de Banderas, on the...
by Chrissy Very | Oct 6, 2026 | community, conservation, tree health & resilience, whitebark pine, women
Full Circle in Tahoe: Bringing Whitebark Pine Data Back to the Community That Asked for It Landing in South Lake Tahoe for the first time ever felt like a full-circle moment. If we haven’t met: I’m Lila Sadler, Forest Programs Manager at Adventure...
by Adventure Scientists | Sep 17, 2026 | adventure scientists, citizen science, conservation
Adventure Scientists’ new Executive Director, Lara Birkes, names the fixed point Adventure Scientists is steering toward and what it will take to get community and volunteer-collected data into the global policy frameworks that advance solutions for nature and...
by Chrissy Very | Sep 8, 2026 | community, conservation, coral, women
This photograph from Roatán shows a team loading dive tanks onto a boat before a reef monitoring run. Every person in the frame is a woman. It isn’t a staged shot, and in Honduras, it isn’t unusual anymore. Reef monitoring is not a one-time activity. It...
by Chrissy Very | Aug 19, 2026 | Audio, biodiversity, conservation, hiking, pacific northwest
With wildfire season approaching, more than 100 wildlife recorders still need to be retrieved from remote forests across the Pacific Northwest. Every device recovered helps turn months of sound recordings into valuable conservation data. Somewhere in the backcountry...
