Go where discovery happens.
Odyssey Discovery connects scientists, educators, classrooms, organizations, and communities through real-world science, exploration, and stories from the field.
Why we exist
A bridge between the field and the classroom.
Groundbreaking work is happening right now — on sea ice, in watersheds, along coastlines, throughout the Great Lakes, deep in forests, and in communities around the world.
Odyssey Discovery closes the distance between the people doing that work and the educators, students, organizations, and communities who can learn from it.
We build the bridge through Field Notes: Explorer, educator experiences, scientist connections, original storytelling, and partnerships that help real-world discovery travel further.
Read Kirsten's story →How it connects
Real science. Real people. Real places.
Scientists share their work.
Educators bring discovery into classrooms.
Organizations help make the connection possible.
Bring the science happening right now into your classroom.
Discover real scientists, fieldwork, videos, Field Notes, data, projects, and discoveries from people exploring our planet right now.
Explorer is free for educators, schools, scientists, students, families, and the public to explore. The free Classroom Bridge helps educators turn real-world science into learning.
Field Notes: Explorer is the science discovery network by Odyssey Discovery.
Explore
Meet scientists. Follow discoveries. See fieldwork. Watch field videos. Read Field Notes. Explore selected data and projects.
Classroom Bridge
Teacher-ready Explorer Guides. Questions and investigations inspired by real fieldwork. Connections to scientist profiles, discoveries, projects, data and Field Notes. Optional Classroom Connections with participating scientists for eligible verified educators as the program develops.
Free. No school subscription. No access fee.
Personalized Field Notes
Want Odyssey to build the connections for you?
For schools and organizations that want something more customized, Odyssey can build a deeper Field Notes experience around your students, questions, curriculum, research, or project. We identify relevant scientists and field professionals, coordinate the connections, and help build a focused real-world science experience around what students are exploring.
Explore Personalized Field Notes
For educators
Have something you want to make possible — but don't know how you'll pay for it?
Classroom equipment. A field experience. Professional learning. A student project. An expedition. A big idea for your school.
You have an idea? Let's make it possible. Odyssey Funding Lab is your educator funding workspace: tell it what you want to make possible, and Odyssey Funding Lab helps you build a personalized funding plan, identify real opportunities and people worth asking, prepare your requests, track your progress, and know exactly what to do next.
Funding is the tool. The opportunity is the purpose.
Pursuing an Odyssey Discovery Educator Fellowship? Once you're accepted and secure your position with the $500 Fellowship commitment, Odyssey Funding Lab access is included at no additional cost. See the Fellowship.
One connected ecosystem
Explore Odyssey Discovery.
Field Notes: Explorer
Discover the science.
A free network connecting people with scientists, fieldwork and discoveries.
Explore Field Notes →Odyssey Funding Lab
Fund the opportunity.
Build a funding strategy, find real opportunities, prepare requests, and know what to do next.
Explore Odyssey Funding Lab →Educator Fellowships
Go where discovery happens.
Field-based professional learning that connects educators with science and brings those experiences back to students.
Explore Fellowships →Field Notes: Uncovered / Odyssey Stories
Follow the stories behind the science.
Original storytelling from the people and places where real-world science happens.
Explore Odyssey Stories →Personalized Field Notes
Build a deeper classroom connection.
An optional customized science experience around your students, questions, curriculum or project.
Explore Personalized Field Notes →Partnerships
Take discovery further.
Support science connections, educational initiatives, storytelling and mission-aligned projects.
Explore a partnership →
The network
Real researchers, doing current work.
Scientists, researchers, conservationists, field professionals, explorers and appropriate knowledge holders can participate free, self-onboard and maintain their own profiles. They choose what to share, and whether to offer optional Classroom Connections — not every participant takes part live.
Participation is by individual professionals. It does not imply that their employers or institutions endorse or formally partner with Odyssey Discovery.
Field Notes: Uncovered
The stories behind the science.
Go into the field with the scientists, conservationists, explorers, and communities doing the work. Field Notes: Uncovered documents the people, places, questions, challenges, and discoveries behind real-world science — and helps those stories travel further.
Explore Field Notes: UncoveredPartner with Odyssey
Help take real-world science further.
Odyssey Discovery works with companies, foundations, research organizations, conservation organizations, and aligned partners to expand what real-world science can make possible for educators, students, scientists, and communities.
Partnerships can support Field Notes: Explorer, scientist participation, Classroom Connections, field science, educator experiences, Field Notes: Uncovered, conservation initiatives, geographic or scientific collections, and larger multi-year projects.
Explore a partnershipGo where discovery happens.
Explore the science. Meet the people doing the work. Bring discovery into learning. Or help us take it further.
Explore Educator Fellowships