Plan your next adventure in the name of science. How can individuals with strong outdoor skills—such as mountaineering, diving or whitewater kayaking inflate the impact of the citizen-science movement? These speakers will spin yarns on adventures that are designed to bring back hard-to-obtain data from the far corners of the globe. These data collection-guided trips boast bikes, ropes and boats yet they are part of something bigger. We’ll begin with how the pursuit of adventure can raise the stakes within meaningful field research projects. Then we’ll push it a little further to discuss how these results can be effectively communicated in order to change policy.
Arlene Burns is the former film festival director of Telluride Mountainfilm and Blue Ocean Film Festival and has worked with a vast array of film festivals selecting content.
Andrew Howley is the Communications Director at Adventure Scientists who recruit and train volunteers to collect data to solve environmental challenges.
Trevor Bloom is a Science Specialist for The Nature Conservancy in Jackson, Wyoming, he is a research associate for the Northern Rockies Conservation Cooperative and manages his own naturalist guide company: Guides of Jackson Hole (GoJH).
Climb-It Change featuring Trevor Bloom screens on April 17 at 8:15 PM and April 18 at 6:15 PM.