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"research expedition" is an organized journey or trip taken by scientists or researchers to investigate and study something in the natural world, such as a specific location, species, or phenomenon. It involves conducting experiments, collecting data, and analyzing findings to gain new knowledge and insights in a particular field of study.
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Data from a 19th century scientific mission, the first global
marine research expedition, have provided strong evidence that humans have influenced climate throughout the entire 20th century.
(14 kilograms) rock was found by scientists with the Japanese Antarctic
Research Expedition in 2000 at the Yamato Glacier in Antarctica.
Antarctica, 22 November 2012 - Nine scientists from Belgium, UK, Japan and Germany [1], touched down today at Princess Elisabeth Antarctica [2], to begin the Belgian
Antarctic Research Expedition (BELARE) summer science season.
Today, scientists returned from a 28 -
day research expedition aboard NOAA Ship Hi'ialakai exploring the deep coral reefs within Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.
Scientists had used the Knorr, a 244 - foot steel - hulled research vessel that was operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, for thousands
of research expeditions around the world, including one that led to the discovery of the wreck of the RMS Titanic.
In case you missed it, The Smog Of The Sea, is a new documentary from filmmaker Ian Cheney (King Corn), that chronicles a 1 -
week research expedition through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea.
Tromsø is one of the biggest cities within the Arctic Circle; it's historically been the launching point
for research expeditions and is home to the world's northernmost university (University of Tromsø).
The finalists for the Educational Journey of the Year Award cover numerous areas, from community project work and treks to sports tours and
scientific research expeditions.
Over the last decade, the Chinese National
Arctic Research Expedition (CHINARE) and U.S. collaborators have studied the environmental and climate changes of the western Arctic Ocean and has witnessed rapid expansion of the «acidified» water in the upper water column.
In case you missed it, The Smog Of The Sea, is a new documentary from filmmaker Ian Cheney (King Corn), that chronicles a 1 - week
research expedition through the remote waters of the Sargasso Sea.
The women allege that David Marchant, then an assistant professor, harassed them during
different research expeditions starting 2 decades ago, while they were isolated in small groups in the Antarctic.
This talk will introduce a spectacular range of unfamiliar morphologies and behaviours as well as bee pollinators and explain how discoveries
from research expeditions reveal their secrets.
Zoologist Kristofer Helgen is a National Geographic Explorer who has
led research expeditions to remote areas on almost every continent in his search for undiscovered species.
You can be part of Chuck's team in the Bahamas in two ways: Sign up for Shedd's next
iguana research expedition or support his 20 - years - and - counting conservation fieldwork for these endangered species through a generous donation to our annual fund.
Getting a handle on this has been difficult without consistent monitoring: Mounds of methane have disappeared or shifted
between research expeditions, for example.
South African
Wildlife Research Expedition, Global Vision International, Postnet Suite 3, Private Bag X3008, Hoedspruit, 1380, South Africa.
The US National Science Foundation funded
several research expeditions in the Gulf under a program designed to enable researchers to respond to sudden events.
The volcano's impact was assessed by a team led by scientists from the UK's National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, who were on a
shipboard research expedition in the area at the time.
In 2008, during a Shark Conservation
Society research expedition to Kuwait's sharq fish market (the name is a coincidence, it means east in Arabic), Moore says that «amongst the many species of whaler shark was one which looked very similar, but different, to a couple of other species.»
During his
own research expeditions in the 1930s, Dr. Weston A Price — progressive dentist and nutrition expert — noted similar findings about the healing prowess of emu oil.
Learn about a unique program that gives K - 12 teachers the opportunity to travel to the ends of Earth to participate in
polar research expeditions!
Dr. Jaime Jahncke, California Current Group Director for Point Blue Conservation Science, went on an eight - day
research expedition along the California coast in May 2016 and observed about 30 to 80 whales every day — mostly humpbacks and a few gray whales.
She explored the Amazon River Basin in depth during a two -
month research expedition to Peru, and has joined more than 20 trips to the country as a field lecturer.
Her activism led her to
make research expeditions to the ice fields of Antarctica, Greenland, Patagonia, and Svalbard where she documented and collected data for her work.
Another long - planned project is the
GYRE research expedition in Alaska this June, with scientists and fellow artists Mark Dion, Alexis Rockman, Sonya Kelliher - Combs and Andrew Hughes, photographer Kip Evans and National Geographic filmmaker J.J. Kelley.
Stroeve's
research expedition comes at the cusp of fundamental changes to the Arctic's sea ice cover — from older ice that is hard to melt, to seasonal ice that melts more quickly.
Starting in the 1950s, the Russian research vessel Vityaz, the Bering Sea
Commercial Research Expedition, and the Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (TINRO), as well as the Oshoro Maru, collected zooplankton and deep - sea fauna in the North Pacific [268].
On one of these random internet -
research expeditions probably many of us do while we would have lots of better and more urgent things to do I discovered JOTWELL.
Rignot, who has led dozens
of research expeditions to Earth's polar regions, said that southeast Greenland — with its fast - moving glaciers, deep fjords and harsh climate conditions — poses significant challenges to researchers.
The second Belgian
Antarctic Research Expedition (Belare 2005) visited the base construction site in Utsteinen Nunatak to take additional topographic and ice thickness measurements and to refurbish the Automatic Weather Station (AWS).
From community project work and treks to sports tours and
scientific research expeditions, the journeys show that boundaries can be pushed even in risk averse times.
As a result, a 68 -
day research expedition to study the deep coal bed biosphere off Shimokita, Japan, has been canceled.
During two
different research expeditions, in the mid - to late springs of 2010 and 2012, the AUV — which resembles a 2 - meter - long bunk bed with twin hulls stacked on top of one another — traveled back and forth through several different Southern Ocean waters in a lawn mower — like pattern at depths of 20 to 30 meters under the ice to collect a 3D survey of the topography of the sea ice's underbelly.
Earlier this month, the controversial 10 -
week research expedition to the frigid Southern Ocean that rings Antarctica announced its surprising — and to some, disappointing — results.
The researchers analyzed sediment cores collected during the U.S. - Canada Arctic Ocean Section cruise in 1994, a major
Arctic research expedition that involved several Lamont - Doherty scientists.
«These trips have a real feeling of exploring the frontier in a way that
research expeditions on land perhaps no longer provide, in part because the terrain and the animals that are encountered are so often unfamiliar and surprising,» says Webster.
At a meeting in San Francisco in 1991, exhausted after spending six months at sea on
a research expedition, Delaney remembers sitting in a bar lamenting to a colleague about the difficulties of using human - occupied submersibles to study the ocean in a meaningful way.