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Coral. Our reef work is now one of the largest coordinated coral studies in the world. More than 2,300 reef censuses across 150 sites in four countries since August 2025, and more than 50 community members paid for the work. In Roatan, women hold all three monitoring lead roles, and that team found healthy pillar coral, a critically endangered species, now headed for protection. https://www.adventurescientists.org/women-in-marine-conservation-honduras/

Butternut. Serena hiked eight miles in the White Mountains looking for butternut trees and found none. An unsearched forest tells you nothing. A searched one tells you something either way, and knowing where butternut has already vanished is exactly what researchers need in order to bring it back. https://www.adventurescientists.org/guest-post-butternut-tree-id/

Acoustics. Our volunteers have deployed every acoustic recorder in the Forest Service's arsenal. Two of Matt Leitzinger's survey regions sit near a megafire that has burned nearly 150,000 acres. As he puts it, the data on those devices is now our last chance for a glimpse into these ecosystems in the Glacier Peak wilderness before they feel the effects. https://www.adventurescientists.org/shrubmarining-volunteer-wildlife-monitoring-matt/

A family, ten years on. The Soltys family started a decade ago watching for pika. Clara now has an Environmental Science degree and Henry is working on one in Wildlife Restoration. Henry put it best. Your work has actually done something, somebody was stopped from taking more trees because of us. https://www.adventurescientists.org/soltys-community-science-story/

Ground Truth for Nature. On September 23 we launch Ground Truth for Nature at Climate Week in New York with our partners at Kowen Antami. Carbon and biodiversity markets only work if someone can verify what is happening on the ground, and the communities who live there are best placed to do it.

Adventure Scientists is the trusted source for the hard-to-gather field data that advances solutions for nature and people. https://www.adventurescientists.org

]]> Five stories from the field this week, from a reef off Honduras to a wilderness in Washington filling with smoke.

Coral. Our reef work is now one of the largest coordinated coral studies in the world. More than 2,300 reef censuses across 150 sites in four countries since August 2025, and more than 50 community members paid for the work. In Roatan, women hold all three monitoring lead roles, and that team found healthy pillar coral, a critically endangered species, now headed for protection. https://www.adventurescientists.org/women-in-marine-conservation-honduras/

Butternut. Serena hiked eight miles in the White Mountains looking for butternut trees and found none. An unsearched forest tells you nothing. A searched one tells you something either way, and knowing where butternut has already vanished is exactly what researchers need in order to bring it back. https://www.adventurescientists.org/guest-post-butternut-tree-id/

Acoustics. Our volunteers have deployed every acoustic recorder in the Forest Service's arsenal. Two of Matt Leitzinger's survey regions sit near a megafire that has burned nearly 150,000 acres. As he puts it, the data on those devices is now our last chance for a glimpse into these ecosystems in the Glacier Peak wilderness before they feel the effects. https://www.adventurescientists.org/shrubmarining-volunteer-wildlife-monitoring-matt/

A family, ten years on. The Soltys family started a decade ago watching for pika. Clara now has an Environmental Science degree and Henry is working on one in Wildlife Restoration. Henry put it best. Your work has actually done something, somebody was stopped from taking more trees because of us. https://www.adventurescientists.org/soltys-community-science-story/

Ground Truth for Nature. On September 23 we launch Ground Truth for Nature at Climate Week in New York with our partners at Kowen Antami. Carbon and biodiversity markets only work if someone can verify what is happening on the ground, and the communities who live there are best placed to do it.

Adventure Scientists is the trusted source for the hard-to-gather field data that advances solutions for nature and people. https://www.adventurescientists.org

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