Combatting Climate Anxiety through Community Science

Science Quickly

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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It’s easy to feel overwhelmed with the news these days and to fear for the future. What if you could interrupt doomscrolling and contribute to conservation at the same time? That’s the idea behind programs like Adventure Scientists, eBird and iNaturalist. Guest Gregg Treinish, founder and executive director of Adventure Scientists, joins host Rachel Feltman to talk about community science in the great outdoors. Learn more about Adventure Scientists Contribute to the California Biodiversity project Contribute to the Tracking Eastern Hemlock project Read Treinish’s opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle E-mail us at sciencequickly@sciam.com if you have any questions, comments or ideas for stories we should cover! Discover something new every day: subscribe to Scientific American and sign up for Today in Science, our daily newsletter. Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Kelso Harper, Madison Goldberg and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was hosted by Rachel Feltman. Our show is edited by Fonda Mwangi with fact-checking by Shayna Posses and Aaron Shattuck. The theme music was composed by Dominic Smith. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Why are businesses like HelloVet choosing Apple products and services?
0:05.1	So we started the business two years ago.
0:07.2	We had a few people who were used to PCs and this was their first foray into Macs.
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0:18.0	Find out how Mac can help you run and grow your business at apple.com forward slash
0:23.6	HelloVet.
0:28.8	If you spend a lot of time on the internet, you've probably seen the phrase, go touch grass, at least once.
0:35.5	It might not always be delivered with love and kindness, but it's
0:39.1	usually pretty good advice. Getting out into nature and getting your hands dirty is a great
0:44.2	antidote to the rage and despair so many of us feel when we read the news. The next time you take
0:49.9	a doom scrolling break to go touch said grass, you can also take the opportunity to help scientists
0:55.0	conduct planet-saving research. For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman. My guest
1:00.9	today is Greg Trinish. He's the founder and executive director of adventure scientists, an organization
1:06.3	that mobilizes outdoor enthusiasts to collect high-quality scientific data.
1:15.7	Thanks so much for coming on to chat today.
1:18.1	Yeah, my pleasure. I'm excited to be here.
1:20.4	So to start us off, you have a pretty fascinating professional life.
1:24.6	Would you just tell us a little bit about who you are and what you do?
1:28.0	I'm the founder and executive director of adventure scientists. And as an organization, we
1:35.0	build conservation projects with the conservation community and then we mobilize the outdoor
1:41.7	community to go and collect data on their behalf.
1:45.3	So we do this all around the world, and we've done it now for more than 100 different
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