"Earth Focus"is an environmental news magazine produced by the Public Media Group of Southern California that features investigative reports and in-depth stories about our changing environment and how it affects people around the world. Season 2, now airing on broadcast tv and available online, examines how communities are transitioning and adapting from different energy sources and how the laws of supply and demand affect the environment and people in different ways. For Episode 3, the the show takes on the world of illegal logging and features Adventure Scientists' Timber Tracking project ..read more

For 24 hours this week, from 6pm Thursday to 6pm Friday, people across the Gallatin Valley in Montana (which we call home) will be coming together to donate to local nonprofits. Adventure Scientists is thrilled to be a part of this annual event, not only because of the much needed support it provides us, but because of the spotlight it shines in this global age on all the great work being done locally as well. Wherever you are, during the big event you can visit givebiggv.org and make a donation to us and/or to any of the great participating nonprofit organizations in Gallatin County ..read more

We've been excited about this project for a while and are thrilled to share the resulting film with you. Great Big Story is a media company "dedicated to inspiring wonder and curiosity" and they've done a beautiful job highlighting our Timber project and more! It features our work on several projects with U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, World Resources Institute, Harvard Medical School, and College of the Atlantic, stretching back to some of our earliest efforts. Most excitingly, it doesn't talk only about the adventure of data collection, it catches you up on the ..read more

Earth Day is over, but Earth Month continues for our fine shoemaker friends through 1% for the Planet, SeaVees. For one more week, anyone making a purchase through their site can direct $5 from SeaVees to one of three 1% partners, and Adventure Scientists is one of them! So if you’re feeling like your feet have earned their keep, carrying you through your countless adventures, do something nice for them—and SeaVees will do something nice for the planet, through us ..read more

The Sierra Nevadas were just one of the geographic regions traversed by volunteers in search of bigleaf maples. Photo by Gisele Guerra With the tremendous effort of more than a hundred volunteers, we succeeded in sampling over 1000 bigleaf maple trees scattered from the canyons of southern California to the fjords of British Columbia for our Timber Tracking project. The season is all but closed with a total of 972 leaf samples and 86 sets of wood samples. We couldn't be more proud of this landmark data collection effort, and we're grateful for each and every one of our volunteers. The s ..read more

Photo by Gary Griffith​It's been another incredible year of collecting data, empowering scientists, inspiring adventurers, and getting key decision makers in government, business, and medicine the hard facts from remote areas that they need. To thank you for all your support throughout the year we're pleased once again to to offer up great gifts of end-of-the-year gear from our partners!​Whether it's a collection of reusable water bottles and tumblers from Klean Kanteen, spacious and stylish messenger bags from Peak Design, sleek sunglasses from Sunski, Croakies to help keep said sunglasses f ..read more

Gregg on his "Across the Andes" trek. Photo by Deia Schlosberg Bethany Hughes and Lauren Reed on the "Her Odyssey" trek. Photo courtesy Her Odyssey Gregg Treinish's epic Across the Andes journey in 2006-8 was where he first conceived of the project that would become Adventure Scientists. Now, ten years after he and Deia Schlosberg completed that pioneering trek, Bethany Hughes and Lauren Reed have followed (at times literally) in their footsteps, while still blazing an incredible trail of their own. Along the way, that ..read more

For 24 hours this week, from 6pm Thursday to 6pm Friday, people across the Gallatin Valley in Montana (which we call home) will be coming together to donate to local nonprofits. Adventure Scientists is thrilled to be a part of this annual event, not only because of the much needed support it provides us, but because of the spotlight it shines in this global age on all the great work being done locally as well. Wherever you are, during the big event you can visit givebiggv.org and make a donation to us and/or to any of the great participating nonprofit organizations in Gallatin County ..read more

We've been excited about this project for a while and are thrilled to share the resulting film with you. Great Big Story is a media company "dedicated to inspiring wonder and curiosity" and they've done a beautiful job highlighting our Timber project and more! It features our work on several projects with U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, World Resources Institute, Harvard Medical School, and College of the Atlantic, stretching back to some of our earliest efforts. Most excitingly, it doesn't talk only about the adventure of data collection, it catches you up on the ..read more

Earth Day is over, but Earth Month continues for our fine shoemaker friends through 1% for the Planet, SeaVees. For one more week, anyone making a purchase through their site can direct $5 from SeaVees to one of three 1% partners, and Adventure Scientists is one of them! So if you’re feeling like your feet have earned their keep, carrying you through your countless adventures, do something nice for them—and SeaVees will do something nice for the planet, through us ..read more