by Adventure Scientists | Jan 9, 2015 | microplastics, oceans
By Abby Barrows ASC Partner Scientist Up until this point, all the microplastic I’ve counted has come from surface samples. But, my most recent batch of samples included water from ASC adventurers in Palau, who took our first scuba samples, as well as...
by Adventure Scientists | Dec 29, 2014 | microplastics
By Emily WolfeImagine rowing from California to Hawaii. That’s 2,900 miles. Now imagine how you’d feel on Day 55. Tired? Seasick? That was the day French cousins Clement Heliot
, 25, and Christophe Papillon, 27, collected samples...
by Adventure Scientists | Dec 5, 2014 | microplastics, oceans, sailing
By Emily WolfeWhat a coup! Our partners Marjo Boertien and Edwin Butter at Ocean Conservation have pulled off an incredible feat, enlisting crew members from 100 sailboats to collect 600 samples as they cross the Atlantic Ocean. Yes, that’s right, 600...
by Adventure Scientists | Dec 5, 2014 | microplastics, oceans, sailing, surfing
By Abby Barrows ASC Partner Scientist This summer, ASC adventurers Teresa and Ben Carey sailed to Stonington and to hand-deliver the water samples they collected on their passage from Panama to Maine. I showed them around my lab, and had them process samples two of...
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 | 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...
