by Adventure Scientists | Nov 10, 2015 | microplastics, oceans, sailing
In late 2014, ASC partnered with the Atlantic Rally for Cruisers, a fleet of sailboats that makes an annual crossing of the Atlantic. In total, 93 of the 251 boats gathered water samples for the ASC Global Microplastics Initiative, contributing 521 samples...
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 | 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 | 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...
by Adventure Scientists | Jul 17, 2014 | adventurers and scientists for conservation, microplastics, sailing
Gathering marine plastic pollution data. (Photos courtesy of ORP) By Emily Wolfe Matt Rutherford and Nicole Treholm just spent 63 days sailing across the Pacific Ocean in a prototype WD Schock 29 called the Sakura. During the 6,500-mile voyage from California to...
