by Gregg Treinish | Jan 8, 2017 | adventure scientists, antarctica, boating, citizen science, collect, conservation, expeditions, microplastic pollution, microplastics, oceans
By: Annette BomboschExpedition Guide and Citizen Science Coordinator for G Adventures and Polar Latitudes Perfect reflections of Antarctica’s mountain ranges along the Antarctic Peninsula. Photo by: Annette Bombosch I will never forget the first time I...
by Gregg Treinish | Dec 14, 2016 | adventure, adventure scientists, boating, citizen science, collect, freshwater microplastics, microplastics, Potomac River, river, students, Washington D.C.
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...
by Gregg Treinish | Dec 8, 2016 | adventure, adventure scientists, camera trap, citizen science, collect, film festival, Uinta Mountains, ultrarunning, utah, Wildlife, wolverine
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...
by Gregg Treinish | Nov 29, 2016 | adventure, adventure scientists, citizen science, expeditions, freshwater microplastics, Great Lakes, Lake Superior, microplastics, Our Shores, ultrarunning
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...
by Gregg Treinish | Oct 19, 2016 | boating, citizen science, freshwater microplastics, Great Lakes, kayaking, microplastic pollution, microplastics, sailing
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...
by Gregg Treinish | Sep 28, 2016 | adventure science, citizen science, conservation, freshwater microplastics, hiking, microplastic pollution, microplastics, Video
By Adventure Scientists Staff Award-winning filmmaker and wilderness guide Steve Weileman recently made this short film highlighting his experience taking water samples for Adventure Scientists’ Global Microplastics Initiative. Weileman hiked into...