by Adventure Scientists | Nov 13, 2014 | Uncategorized
Story and Photos by Jen PateOn November 16, our all-female team, eXXpedition, will set sail across the Atlantic Ocean on a mission to explore the connections between ocean and human health—specifically plastics, toxics and cancer.The Adventurers and Scientists...
by Adventure Scientists | Nov 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Emily Wolfe Before the new year, crewmembers from 100 sailboats are set to collect 600 ocean water samples from a 602,000-square-nautical mile area in the Atlantic Ocean for ASC’s microplastics research. “It’s huge for science, for really getting...
by Adventure Scientists | Nov 11, 2014 | adventurers and scientists for conservation
By Nikki Mann We spent hours and hours walking a tropical beach in Santa Rosa National Park, Costa Rica… in the dark… without headlamps. As the surf pounded the beach to my left, invisible and insistent, I tried to decide if I looked weak—or,...
by Adventure Scientists | Nov 7, 2014 | adventurers and scientists for conservation, africa, microplastics, oceans, surfing
Q&A with Surfer Erwan SimonBy Emily Wolfe | Photos by John Seaton Callahan SurfEXPLORE was founded on a beach in Mauritania. After a day of surfing, four friends shared mint tea with their local guide under a traditional nomad Khaïma tent....
by Adventure Scientists | Nov 6, 2014 | adventurers and scientists for conservation, apr, Landmark
Several members of the September and October Landmark crews are staying on in November, and are joined by three new teammates, Trent, Jennifer and Tony, our first returning crew member. Get to know the new folks: Having grown up on the Kansas prairie,...