Big Expeditions with (real) Purpose
The media loves big, exciting, daring adventures and expeditions.
Explore 2013: What stories can you tell from the field?
The best weekend of the year has come around again and adventurous folks from all around the country will be descending on the Royal Geographical Society.
10 Tips For Your First Science Expedition
"The urge to explore a wilderness is inseparable from the desire to help save it." - Michael Fay
Looking Back On The Empty Quarter Expedition
A new year and a new expedition.
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.
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.
Two things worth saying
and if you put them together, this is what it boils down to.
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..
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.
In Praise of the Little Guy
Have you ever heard of the 'Big 5'? Supposedly the five African animals most difficult and dangerous to hunt on foot. Unfortunately, it's more a marketing term aimed at tourists than anything else.
Friday Photo: Surprising Science
Science is taught in the classroom and practiced in the laboratory. Sometimes you get to have a go in the field. Lab's are sterile, everything goes (almost) to plan
Dragon Hunting in Oman
Sometimes science seems boring. It can be difficult to connect the apparently disparate effort in the field, to the long term goals and achievements.