by Adventure Scientists | Oct 9, 2015 | Audio, Photography
Ancient discoveries on the prairie: The crew found an arrowhead on one of their transects. They were told by a visiting archeologist that you can see that the arrowhead was broken on the top by way of a hit. The stone it was made from had been etched—its white patina...
by Adventure Scientists | Oct 8, 2015 | microplastics, oceans, sailing
By Thomas NielsenASC Microplastics Adventurer Team Sea Runners sailing north past Lasqueti Island. During their adventure, they gathered samples for ASC. (Photo by Michael Dougherty) By mid afternoon, light southerlies were filling in. The sea surface became rippled...
by Adventure Scientists | Oct 6, 2015 | Audio, Landmark
Writing and Media by Dove HenryASC Landmark Crew Member Click above to hear the elk During the third week of September—the peak of the elk rut in Montana—the Landmark crew made a trip to the Slippery Ann elk viewing area in the Charles M. Russell Wildlife...
by Adventure Scientists | Oct 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Writing and Photography by Wesley GushASC Landmark Crew MemberYou can sense the history of the earth in this place. It’s everywhere you walk. The landscape is old; coursed and molded by massive fluvial processes millennia ago. To my South African eyes, however,...
by Adventure Scientists | Oct 1, 2015 | microplastics, south america
Conservation biologist Lesley de Souza (right) studies Arapaima, one of the largest freshwater fish in the world. (Photo by S. Piper Kimmel) By Lesley de Souza ASC Microplastics Adventurer I plunge my arm below the surface of the water, feeling the weight...
