by Adventure Scientists | Sep 28, 2015 | adventurers and scientists for conservation, microplastics
Spreading the word about ASC projects is in our DNA, because public awareness is paramount to creating change. Check out these recent stories helping us facilitate that part of our mission! NPR Weekend EditionListen to Galen Koch interview ASC microplastics...
by Adventure Scientists | Dec 24, 2014 | adventurers and scientists for conservation, apr, Landmark
Story and Photos by Trent Banks As an adventurer and explorer of wild places, I live for the mystical moments when our connection to Earth—and indeed life itself—becomes more tangible. Encounters with the elements and beasts that are wilderness can take...
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,...
by Adventure Scientists | Oct 29, 2014 | adventurers and scientists for conservation, greenland, microplastics, sailing, snow
Story by McKenna Peterson | Photos by KT Miller … to fill a liter bottle with ocean water from the middle of the Denmark Strait? Six. One to steer the sailboat in the correct direction. One to tack the sails, while navigating an icy deck. Two to fish...