10 Tips For Your First Science Expedition
“The urge to explore a wilderness is inseparable from the desire to help save it.” – Michael Fay
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The Amazon (part 1)
A spotlight burst into life, momentarily panning across the far bank, before returning us to darkness. Adolfo slipped the blade of his hand carved hardwood paddle into molasses coloured water, adjusting the course of our dugout canoe with precision developed over a lifetime plying these waters.
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Fieldwork: Pygmy Sloths of Panama
Jakob recently spent three months on the remote Isla Escudo just off Panama studying the newly discovered Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth, here’s his story
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10 Lessons Learned from Expeditions
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.
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Fieldwork: Dragonflies of the Amazon Rainforest
Lawrence reports on the highlights and challenges of studying dragonflies aboard a riverboat in the Amazon.
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Fieldwork: Citizen Science and Rowing an Ocean
If rowing an ocean wasn’t challenge enough, Lloyd collected valuable data en route for the Earthwatch Institute. Here’s his tips for budding citizen scientists.
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Friday Photo: Unexpected Visitors
They say that a camel can smell water. I’m not sure if that’s true, but they do have a knack of turning up at camp..
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Good things happen when you least expect it
On one particularly tiring and long day, the very instant my head hit the pillow (insert: a sandy pair of rather grim trousers) the valley boomed with the rasping bellow of an Arabian Leopard.
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