This fall EcoQuest ran its first online seminar series: five free sessions on Zoom, every other Saturday from 11:00 to 11:40 AM Pacific, between September 12 and November 7, 2026. Each session was built on something EcoQuest had already done, so that we were explaining work we knew firsthand.
Reading Real Wildfire Data came out of building Wildfire Watch, and covered where live fire and air-quality data comes from and what a containment percentage does and does not tell you. What a Beach Cleanup Actually Tells Us came out of our Seal Beach cleanups, and treated a cleanup as data collection. Your Home's Water and Energy Footprint was about reading your own utility bills and measuring whether a change made any difference. Climate Anxiety and How We Built MindMirror looked at what researchers have measured about climate worry in young people, and was specific about what MindMirror does and does not do. Conservation in Your Own Neighborhood was about finding the environmental work already happening near you and joining it.
The slide deck for every session is published on this site, linked from the Events page. For the first four sessions there is also a short recorded walkthrough, between four and seven minutes long. We label these as recorded walkthroughs because that is what they are: a narrated run through the slides, recorded separately, and not a capture of the live session.
The next series, the EcoQuest Winter Field Lab, starts on November 21, 2026. Its sessions are 30 minutes, and each one ends with something to go and do outside: watch where the first rain of the season goes, log what is living nearby in winter, count birds, see a king tide, or check the air before lighting a fire. The dates and sign-up links are on the Events page.