A program for educators
What if your students could learn climate science from the scientists living it?
Odyssey Discovery connects classrooms to the world's most critical environments — through live scientist sessions, immersive Arctic expeditions, and documentary content that brings the field straight to your students.
6 yrs
teaching in Utqiagvik
150+
educators transformed
15
expeditions led
12+
research partners
Three ways in
Three programs. One mission. Real science, brought to the classrooms that need it most.
Live programs
Field Notes: Explorer
Working field scientists drop into your classroom — live, virtual, and on the topics you're already teaching.
Immersive PD
Odyssey Discovery Expeditions
Our flagship is the 4-day Arctic expedition to Utqiagvik, Alaska — and we run field programs across the U.S. and around the world. Limited to 8–10 educators.
Free content
Field Notes: Uncovered
Documentary-style video from the field. Free for any educator, any classroom, any time.
Why we exist
A bridge between the field and the classroom.
I taught for six years in Utqiagvik, Alaska — one of the most remote Arctic communities in the United States. I watched scientists arrive on the tundra with research that would change how we understand the planet, and I watched classrooms a few miles away learn from textbooks printed five years before that work began.
Odyssey Discovery exists to close that gap. To put working scientists in front of curious students. To put educators in the places where the science is actually being done. And to make the rest of it — the field, the people, the discoveries — visible to anyone who wants to look.
Read Kirsten's story →"My students asked the scientist questions I never could have. They were talking about the data days later. This is the most alive science has ever felt in my classroom."
Scientists from
NOAA · Arctic research stations · University field programs · Indigenous knowledge keepers · And a growing network across climate, ocean, and polar science.
From the field
Inside our NOAA Alpena episode
Our first Field Notes: Uncovered film follows NOAA researchers in the Great Lakes — what they're measuring, why it matters, and how to bring it into tomorrow's lesson.
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