DIALOGUE: ADVENTURE IN PURSUIT OF SCIENCE
2:30P The Roxy Theater

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.