The Scourge in our Nation’s Capital River: Microplastics in the Potomac
By: Carter Cortazzi, Jamie Farrell, and Lola Bushnell At 5 a.m. on a very dark and cold Halloween weekend morning, our crew of intrepid explorers assembled at Georgetown University’s front gates in Washington, D.C. Freshly awoken after very few...
Running Wild
By: Danny Schmidt & Victoria Ortiz Solitary, elusive, and badass - meet the real wolverine In February of 2014, a remotely triggered camera in Utah’s rugged Uinta mountains captured a picture of something no one thought possible in the area: a...
Around Lake Superior in Five Quotes
By: Our ShoresMicroplastics Adventure Scientists Our Shores: Ultrarun for the Love of the Lake was a self-supported ultrarunning expedition undertaken by Allissa Stutte, Evan Flom and Andy Butter. The trio took 86 days to run a total of 1,352 miles around Lake...
Tis the Season for Giving Back
By Victoria Ortiz Adventure Scientist volunteers braving the cold to collect water samples, photo by Louise Johns The snow started falling outside our Bozeman office windows this week, signaling the beginning of a much-anticipated winter season. Many...
The Depth of our Plastic Problem: Microplastics Researcher Abby Barrows’ firsthand account from the Oceanic Society Expedition
By Victoria Ortiz and Abby Barrows Abby at Bonto Village, Photo by Dianna Cohen The Oceanic Society Expedition recently spent 10 days traveling by boat from Bali to Komodo to explore the impact of plastic pollution in this region. They invited Adventure...
Lessons from the Pronghorn
By Kathryn DavisonLandmark Crew Member At first, we thought that the bumps on the landscapes were just rocks. As the temperature drops we’re seeing fewer mammals and reptiles on the American Prairie Reserve, so we wouldn’t have been surprised. So...
Vertical Nepal: Expedition Update
By Adventure Scientists Staff Vertical Nepal, a team of elite mountaineers and seasoned Adventure Scientists, recently sent us some photos and an update from their expedition, which has included collecting scat samples for our Global Microbe Study and water samples...
My First Meeting With Gumbo
By: Matilde GranetLandmark Crew Member Gumbo: The element of the Great Plains that shows how complicated it is to live in this territory.In the Great Plains region where the American Prairie Reserve is located, people often refer to mud as “gumbo."The first time...
eXXpedition Great Lakes 2016: A Historic Day In the Fight Against Microplastics
ByJen Pate & Elaine McKinnonLove Your Greats Mission Leaders & Adventure Scientists One of the many shoreline cleanup crews during eXXpedition Great Lakes 2016. Photo: Frank Beattie On August 20 2016, seven sailboats led the way across the Great Lakes region...
Reshaping Wildlife Conservation at American Prairie Reserve
By Josiane SegarLandmark Crew Member Camera trap photo of pronghorn congregating on one of the Wild Sky ranches. If one thing has been impressed upon me in my two summers of working at American Prairie Reserve, it’s that setting up a large-scale...