Go where discovery happens.
Odyssey Discovery connects scientists, educators, classrooms, and communities through real-world science, exploration, and stories from the field.
Why we exist
A bridge between the field and the classroom.
Groundbreaking research is happening right now — on sea ice, in watersheds, along coastlines, throughout the Great Lakes, and deep in forests. A few miles away, classrooms often remain separated from the people doing that work.
Odyssey Discovery closes that distance: connecting educators with the scientists, conservationists, communities, and research organizations exploring our planet — not as a one-time visit, but as an ongoing relationship.
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Students don't just learn about science. They meet the people discovering it.
12 months of real-world science discovery for your school — live scientist experiences, stories from the field, and classroom investigations, from the researchers exploring our planet right now.
$1,997 per school · 12 months · Start anytime.
Purchasing and school access happen on FieldNotesExplorer.com — Field Notes: Explorer, by Odyssey Discovery.
Who it's for
K–12 schools, science and STEM teams, curriculum leaders, and districts that want students learning from current research.
What a school gets
Live scientist experiences, field stories, and classroom-ready investigations across 12 consecutive months — school-wide access, not per teacher.
What it costs
$1,997 per school per year — 12 months of Explorer access for the school, starting whenever your school is ready.
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.
Odyssey Funding Lab
Fund the opportunity.
Help educators build a funding strategy, find real opportunities and prospects, prepare requests, and know what to do next.
Explore Odyssey Funding Lab →Odyssey Educator Fellowships
Go where discovery happens.
Selective, fundable professional learning experiences that place educators in the environments where science is happening — and bring those experiences back to students.
Explore Fellowships →Odyssey Stories
Follow the stories behind the science.
Documentary-style storytelling from the field — including Field Notes: Uncovered, the podcast, and stories from S/V Svala.
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The network
Real researchers, doing current work.
Field Notes participants include individual scientists, conservationists, and field professionals working in climate, ocean, polar, freshwater, and conservation science — plus knowledge holders who share place-based understanding of the environments they live and work in.
Participation is by individual professionals. It does not imply that their employers or institutions endorse or formally partner with Odyssey Discovery.
For scientists
Odyssey Stories
Great Lakes science, told by the people doing it
Field Notes: Uncovered — our flagship series — follows researchers working in the Great Lakes: the stories behind the science, and how they reach classrooms.
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Help take real-world science further.
Odyssey Discovery works with companies, foundations, research organizations, and conservation partners to expand access to field science, educator experiences, classroom discovery, and stories from the field.
Partnerships can support schools, educators, field experiences, storytelling, research connections, or larger multi-year initiatives.
One pathway
Sponsor Field Notes access
- One school — $2,000
- Ten schools — $20,000
- Twenty-five schools — $50,000
- Fifty schools — $100,000
Sponsored-access examples, not the limits of an Odyssey partnership. Larger and multi-year partnerships are structured around aligned goals.
Bring current science into your school this year.
$1,997 per school · 12 months · Start anytime.