Alaska Endeavour

ONE LAST SPOT JUST OPENED on our DINOSAUR FOSSIL HUNT! Sept 1-12, up the ALASKA PENINSULA. JOIN US FOR WHAT WILL BE AN INCREDIBLE TRIP! You’ll swing rock picks and get your hands dirty doing important field research, as well as cruise an incredibly wild and beautiful stretch of coast from Kodiak to Sand Point. Dinosaurs once roamed Alaska. Let’s find them. On this expedition, Dr. Tony Fiorillo, leading Alaska paleontologist, expects to find dinosaur footprints, ammonites, fossil leaves of conifers and sequoias, and possibly bones and teeth of hadrosaurs and maybe even theropods. We’ll also like;y see volcanoes, bears, whales and northern lights. Eat great food and tell tall tales. AlaskaEndeavour.org/expeditions. A non-profit organization dedicated to science research and education.

Three spots left!

Women mariners, join us! Our all-women's Wilderness Mariner Course heads to the Alaska Peninsula, Katmai, and Kodiak — one of the most beautiful and remote coastlines on Earth, shaped by volcanoes and glaciers.

Our 12-day (Sept 16-27), Wilderness Mariner Course is a rare, hands-on opportunity to strengthen skills: anchoring, piloting, navigation, watchstanding and boat systems- while watching whales, bears and northern lights. With only eight students there's plenty of time at the helm.

Learn more at AlaskaEndeavour.org/2026-expeditions. We are a non-profit dedicated to science and wilderness maritime education.

Wonder if Capt Bill knew what he was in for when he suggested an all woman student/crew for this years’ Wilderness Mariner Course up the Inside Passage from Seattle to Ketchikan. It’s been awesome! 10 days equal parts hands on learning and big time fun. Even seriously experienced sailors, captains, cruisers from across the continent and around the world found more things to learn, jumping into every task at hand — and then some. And I think there are still two berths left on the September trip along the Alaska Peninsula up to Kodiak on @alaskaendeavour!

Anyone out there want to JOIN US FOR A DINOSAUR TRACK TREK THIS SEPTEMBER 1-12? I’m not kidding — We just had a cancellation so we have one bunk left. Endeavour is taking a group of researchers and citizen scientist/life learners (a.k.a. Paleo Dino nerds) down the Alaska Peninsula with Alaskan dinosaur paleontologist/author Tony Filorillo. More information at AlaskaEndeavour.org/expeditions.

In addition to digging for dinosaur tracks, we will be taking in unbelievable landscape – glaciers, volcanoes, Katmai brown bear, whales and northern lights. Our expeditions have a reputation of offering as much learning as they do fun. Plus, I hear the food is good.; seriously, please help us send the word out to interested folks. The kind who’s to be fun to be on a boat for 12 days with. Thx ! 🦕⛴️

In case you missed Capt Kelsey’s reel from our Wilderness Mariner Course up the Inside Passage last week. What a great group! — well seasoned, salty sailors who know how to balance the fun and learning ratio. We did a lot of both.

This autumn there could be even more of each — as we explore the remote coast of the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak in both all women’s and coed trips. Think hands on helm time around glaciers, volcanoes, Katmai brown bear and northern lights. Trip of a lifetime. And last berths available in each. AlaskaEndeavour.org/expeditions

Wonder if Capt Bill knew what he was in for when he suggested an all woman student/crew for this years’ Wilderness Mariner Course up the Inside Passage from Seattle to Ketchikan. It’s been awesome! 10 days equal parts hands on learning and big time fun. Even seriously experienced sailors, captains, cruisers from across the continent and around the world found more things to learn, jumping into every task at hand — and then some. And I think there are still two berths left on the September trip along the Alaska Peninsula up to Kodiak on @alaskaendeavour!

MONITORING GLACIERS - VISUALIZING CLIMATE CHANGE -PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND ALASKA 

We all hear about climate change. In headlines. In conversations. But it’s very different thing to standing in front of a glacier that has reshaped itself within a single lifetime. Imagine the perspective of experiencing 30 of them.

Two last berths are still ope on our July glacier study expedition in Alaska’s Prince William Sound — working with leading glaciologist and author Dr Bruce Molnia, whose decades of research in Alaska bring both context and depth to what you’re seeing day to day, documenting the status of over 30 glaciers,

This 12-day expedition and course is open to ages 18–85, for college credit, and non-credit, life learners, alike. No prior field experience required—just curiosity and a willingness to engage.

If you’ve ever wanted to move beyond reading about climate change and actually witness firsthand what it means:

Join us! https://www.alaskaendeavour.org/260701-glaciers

Come see for yourself—and take part in the work, observing glacier retreat, historical, and contemporary status comparisons, reading the landscape, and contributing to ongoing science. Oh, did we mention the fun part? Like living aboard Endeavour with scientists and crew in one of the most beautiful virtually untouched regions of the world… Each happy testimonials on our site is real. Our researchers and students come back year after year for more.

Alaska Endeavour is a nonprofit science research vessel. These expeditions support the work to bring more people into direct contact with the environment, data, and processes shaping our world.

260701 Glaciers PWS | Alaska Endeavour Join this expedition led by Dr. Bruce Molnia, an expert on Alaska glaciers and author of more than 500 publications, including the monumental 550-page Alaska ‘chapter’ of The Satellite Image Atlas of The Glaciers of the World.