Field Notes: Uncovered
Go into the field with scientists, researchers and conservation leaders exploring some of the most fascinating questions about our planet.
Co-Host & Executive Producer Kirsten Alburg travels to the places where discovery is happening — joining scientists in the field, putting on the gear, participating in the work where permitted, asking the questions, and uncovering the human stories behind the science.
The scientists are the experts. Kirsten is our way into their world.
From Arctic sea ice to the Great Lakes, wildlife recovery to conservation research, Field Notes: Uncovered turns real science into an adventure.
Commissioned Documentary Projects
Odyssey Discovery works with research institutions, conservation organizations, and mission-aligned partners to document the people, places, and discoveries behind their work. From focused field stories to larger documentary and educational projects, each engagement is scoped around the organization's objectives, field access, production needs, and intended audiences.
Field Notes: Story
Original documentary storytelling that brings scientific discovery, conservation work, and field research to life.
Field Notes: Impact
Documentary storytelling combined with educational resources, audience engagement, and communication deliverables designed around a project's goals.
Every project is individually scoped around its story, production requirements, deliverables, and intended impact. We develop tailored proposals following an initial conversation. Scope, usage rights, production expenses, and review terms are established in a written agreement.
The format
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Every story begins with something scientists are trying to understand.
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We travel to where the work is actually happening.
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We meet the scientists, researchers, conservationists and community experts doing the work.
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Kirsten joins them in the field — onto the ice, aboard the vessel, into the forest or to the monitoring station.
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We follow what actually happens.
“The uncertainty is never manufactured — in real fieldwork, the science itself creates the mystery.”
Your guide
Co-Host & Executive Producer
Field Notes: Uncovered
Kirsten spent more than 20 years working across Alaska, including six years in the Arctic, before creating Odyssey Discovery. Education is part of her story — and on Uncovered, her role is to be the audience's way in.
She is not the scientist. The scientists are the experts. Kirsten suits up, asks the obvious questions and the hard ones, takes part in the work where permitted, and hits the same weather, equipment and timing problems the field team does — curious, adventurous and comfortable saying “I don't know.”
The stories
Each story is clearly labelled: released, in development or proposed. Stories in development and proposed stories are not yet commissioned, funded or confirmed.
The question: what does it take to recover an endangered species? A story of hope, science and conservation in action — follow the people working to save the Sihek (Guam kingfisher) from extinction, one of the most important recovery missions in the Pacific.
Utqiaġvik, Alaska
The question
What can sea ice tell us about a changing Arctic?
Potential story direction
Kirsten travels to the Arctic to join working sea-ice scientists in the field and experience how researchers observe and measure a rapidly changing environment.
The question
How do researchers monitor one of Earth's largest freshwater systems?
Potential story direction
A planned story about the instruments and observations that reveal a changing Great Lakes. Vessel access and researcher participation are still being arranged.
Questions we'd like to follow next. None are in production yet.
Made for curious people
Field Notes: Uncovered is built for people curious about extraordinary places, real discovery and the people trying to understand our planet.
The adventure brings you in. The people make you care. The science gives the story meaning.
Real places.
Real scientists.
Real questions.
Real uncertainty.
Partner with Uncovered
Partners can help make field access, storytelling and educational impact possible.
Scientists + conservationists
Come show us what you're discovering. Taking part never requires payment.
Organizations commissioning projects
Research institutions and conservation organizations can commission paid documentary or science-communications projects, scoped to their objectives.
Brands + funders
Underwrite independent storytelling or educational engagement — investment, vehicles, cameras, field equipment and technology that help Odyssey get into the field and tell the story.
How we work
Odyssey is growing its filmmaking and production capabilities, and may work with experienced producers, cinematographers and editors when a story calls for it. Brand and funding partnerships are scoped around the story, goals and value.
How support travels
Partners help make field access and production possible. Odyssey Discovery turns that access into stories that bring audiences into the field — and, where appropriate, extends the scientists, discoveries and fieldwork into classrooms through Field Notes: Explorer.
Editorial independence
Partnership support may underwrite access, travel, production, storytelling and educational impact. It does not purchase:
Scientists speak for their own work. Odyssey Discovery retains editorial independence.
Commissioned productions have separately agreed project scopes, factual review procedures, deliverable approvals, and usage rights; no agreement permits the misrepresentation of scientific findings.
Odyssey Discovery is a for-profit business, so partnerships are commercial sponsorships rather than tax-deductible charitable gifts.
Field Notes: Explorer
Through Field Notes: Explorer, participating scientists, discoveries, fieldwork and selected data can travel farther — into classrooms. Explorer helps educators connect students with the people and real-world science behind the stories.
Field Notes: Explorer is free for educators, schools and scientists.
Explore Field Notes: Explorer
Future field platform
A future Great Lakes field platform for science access, storytelling and education. No vessel has been selected or acquired; any future acquisition remains subject to funding, professional evaluation, insurance review and mission confirmation.
Explore the Svala ProjectField Notes: Uncovered works with select mission-aligned organizations and brands to make field access, science storytelling and educational impact possible.
If your organization helps people explore, understand, protect or experience our planet, we'd like to hear from you.
No meeting needed to begin — use the partner form or email connect@joinodysseydiscovery.com.
Field Notes: Uncovered
Created, Co-Hosted & Executive Produced by Kirsten Alburg
An Odyssey Discovery original.
Go Where Discovery Happens.