Field Notes: conservation impact stories
Volunteer-powered science, partner breakthroughs, and real-world conservation solutions
Building the Next Season of Hard-to-Gather Data: Notes From Our Team Retreat
Once a year, the Adventure Scientists team leaves home offices and meets in one place to put our work under real...
From a Pioneer’s Journals to Hard-to-Gather Field Data
Skookum Dave spends his days transcribing a pioneer's journals about the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Then he...
Planting Hope Beneath the Surface for the Next Generation
Andrea Calix traded volunteer hours for dive training on Roatán. Now she monitors the reef she hopes her daughter will...
Where Our Coral Reef Network Began: A New Film from Mexico’s Pacific Coast
A new short film follows the volunteer divers who monitor coral reefs in Bahía de Banderas, on Mexico's Pacific coast...
Whitebark Pine Conference Recap from Forest Programs Manager, Lila
Written by Lila Sadler, Forest Programs ManagerLanding in South Lake Tahoe for the first time ever felt like a...
5 Things a PNW Volunteer Wishes He’d Known Before Backcountry Trekking
Christian Murillo spent his summer bushwhacking off-trail through Pacific Northwest forests to retrieve wildlife...
Filling the Whitebark Pine Data Gap
A volunteer on skis can find what the Forest Service can't easily reach. Here's how ski tourers and splitboarders are...
Where Adventure Scientists Is Headed: A Fixed Point on the Horizon
Adventure Scientists' new Executive Director, Lara Birkes, names the fixed point Adventure Scientists is steering...
In Roatán, Women Are Running the Reef Work
This photograph from Roatán shows a team loading dive tanks onto a boat before a reef monitoring run. Every person in...
I Hiked Eight Miles Looking for Butternut Trees and Didn’t Find One. That’s Still Data.
Guest writer and volunteer, Serena, shares her POV from the Cascade Brook and Mount Pemigewasset trails. Experience...
Shrubmarining: A Volunteer’s Journey Into Forests Before The Fires
Matt Leitzinger spent a June Saturday placing acoustic recorders in trailless country in the Glacier Peak Wilderness....
The Race to Beat Wildfire Season
With wildfire season approaching, more than 100 wildlife recorders still need to be retrieved from remote forests...
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