Video: Sampling in the Shadow of Mount St. Helens

by Adventure Scientists | Sep 28, 2016 | adventure science, citizen science, conservation, freshwater microplastics, hiking, microplastic pollution, microplastics, Video

By Adventure Scientists Staff ​Award-winning filmmaker and wilderness guide Steve Weileman recently made this short film highlighting his experience taking water samples for Adventure Scientists’ Global Microplastics Initiative. Weileman hiked into...

Landmark Crews Help Encourage Wildlife-Friendly Ranching

by Adventure Scientists | Aug 17, 2016 | American Prairie Reserve, biodiversity, camera trap, conservation, Landmark, montana, Wildlife

By Adventure Scientists Staff ​From the heat of August to the deep freeze of January, our Landmark crews collect wildlife data on the American Prairie Reserve. The data is used to help American Prairie Reserve make wildlife management decisions that support...

Climbing above Thailand’s Beautiful Waters

by Adventure Scientists | Feb 24, 2016 | adventure, climbing, conservation, microplastics, science, Thailand

By Dylan JonesASC Microplastics Adventurer The largest bay on Koh Lao Liang Phi (Photo by Dylan Jones) The morning sun dances off the glassy ripples lapping against my kayak. I dip a sampling bottle under the crystalline surface one, two, three times, the displaced...

Project Highlight: LANDMARK – Adventure Science on American Prairie Reserve

by Adventure Scientists | Nov 20, 2013 | apr, biodiversity, camera trap, citizen science, conservation, hiking, Landmark, science, Wildlife

Bringing Adventure-Science to the American Prairie From Marco Polo to Lewis and Clark wide open grasslands have long inspired adventurous spirits, and voyages of discovery. However, very few of these vast landscapes still exist unaltered. Only the steppes of...

Project Highlight: Camera Trapping

by Adventure Scientists | Oct 8, 2013 | camera trap, conservation, montana

Catching Wildlife in a Lens: Camera Trapping Top 10 By Kim Hightower Your fingers begin to freeze instantly as you remove your gloves and mount the camera onto the lower trunk of the tree.  The wind blows and you’re enveloped in a cold, sparkling-white powder as...

Secchi Disks, Banded Gulls and a Whole lot of Adventure with the Wilderness Classroom

by Adventure Scientists | Nov 27, 2012 | adventure, citizen science, conservation, Great Lakes, kayaking, students

ASC teams up with the Wilderness Classroom to study water quality and bird migration in the name of science and adventure Dave and Amy Freeman, the Founders of Wilderness Classroom. Photo credit: Wildernessclassroom.com For the past three years, Dave and Amy Freeman...