Sentences with phrase «weeks on an expedition»

Prince Harry spent 4 weeks on an expedition to the North Pole in 2011 to raise awareness for wounded servicemen and women.

The research vessel Helmer Hanssen spent 3 - weeks on an expedition to seabed methane seeps in the Arctic Ocean around Svalbard.

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I just got back from a true «bucket list» fishing expedition to the Brazilian Amazon jungle for peacock bass, and while I was able to put work on the back burner for a week, the successful trip led me to think about just how important a fiduciary relationship can be in every transaction we undertake.

His career highlights at S.I. include road trips in search of sports on the equator, the world's most dangerous sport and Roman gladiators as the first sports superstars, a lengthy meditation on Don King's hair, the second - ever descent of Africa's Zambezi River, a weighty essay on the 580 - pound sumo wrestler Konishiki, an investigation into the questionable around - the - world run by Robert Garside, a look inside the mind games at the 1987 world chess championship between Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov in Seville, Spain, three weeks in the Sahara covering the 2002 Paris - to - Dakar Rally, a trudge through Panama's Darien jungle retracing Vasco Núñez de Balboa's 1513 expedition, and a journey into the world of Jeopardy! His essay on George Steinbrenner and the New York Yankees» line of succession was called the «scoop of the year» in the 2008 Houghton - Mifflin collection The Best American Sports Writing.

His wife Anna was familiarising herself with London last week when she arrived on a shopping expedition — for clothes, not houses.

On holiday it gets me out of the house several times a week - «a skiving expedition», my wife used to call it.

Ling was part of an international team of 31 scientists from 15 countries that sailed on an eight - week International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 359 to the Maldives.

On a 2003 expedition, two research teams made simultaneous fossil finds at the two locations roughly a week apart.

Besides Amundsen's, there was the Japanese expedition under Lieut. Shirase, which had to retreat to Australia last spring in order to replenish its supply of dogs, and which Amundsen says landed on January 16th at the Bay of Whales, two weeks before he sailed for home; Dr. Mawson's Australian expedition, for which $ 215,000 had been raised up to November 1st last, and which was to land three parties between Cape Adare and Gaussberg; the German expedition under Lieut. Filchner in the «Deutschland,» elaborately equipped with wireless, magnetic, and meteorological apparatus, full of the hope of establishing a base southwest of Coats Land in as high a latitude as possible; and lastly, Capt. Scott's English expedition in the «Terra Nova,» which left New Zealand in November, 1910, badly damaged by stormy weather; so badly, indeed, that the necessary repairs and the cost of making good the stores that had been lost seriously depleted the resources of the party.

This week a team of experts from Rice University, the University of Houston - Clear Lake, Texas A&M and Boston University will sail from Galveston on a five - day expedition to the reefs.

The team from the University of Cambridge found the corpse partly buried in a tyre track on a road through the Nechisar National Park during a 13 - week expedition to the Nechisar Plains of southern Ethiopia.

In the study, Kohlbach and her colleagues analysed the stomach contents of the fish — which they had caught directly under the sea ice in the course of a several - week - long expedition to the Arctic Ocean on board the research vessel Polarstern.

Scientists with the Caitlin Arctic Survey have been utilizing a new device on this year's 10 - week expedition on the edge of the Arctic Ocean near Ellef Ringnes Island, Canada: a unique pedal - powered winch built to haul a 50 - kilogram scientific payload 200 meters below the sea ice.

On March 2, Expedition 34 commander Kevin Ford and Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA will grab the capsule with the station's robotic arm and attach it to the Harmony module, where it will stay for about three weeks.

Published in their final form last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the maps draw on a variety of data sources, including satellite radar and aerial imagery, as well as special sonar data collected on ship expeditions to the front of the ice sheet.

Check in later this week for my posts to the Expeditions Blog on my own experiment to see how it feels to live on Mars time.

Instead, NASA tapped the CST - 100 and Space Exploration Technologies» (SpaceX) crewed Dragon spacecraft as the two offerings which would carry future expedition crews to the ISS, as was detailed on Aviation Week and Space Technology.

Reaching the bottom The expedition left Guam aboard RV Kilo Moana, operated by the University of Hawaii, on May 24 to begin a two - week engineering test cruise.

Join Hannah and other Wolf College wild chefs during our annual Wild Cooking & Ethnobotany Expedition: The Herbal Foray the second week of July on Lake Sammamish near Seattle.

Thx, I will try my best... I will be on expedition next week, maybe I can catch some brands for it:)-RRB--RRB- hhahahaah....

A group of British teachers embark on a four - week expedition to Antarctica and demonstrate how humans are able to live on the South Pole.

Sixth graders have spent weeks learning to play the tabla drums, along with Indian chants and prayers, as part of their expedition on ancient and modern India.

The range of activities and adventures the 40 students undertook was in itself amazing and included a week long Duke of Edinburgh snow - shoeing expedition, sea - kayaking amongst the fjords, avalanche awareness training on a self - supported week long winter trek, and a SES - funded community camp for 200 local children.

Interactive experiences through week - long expeditions and enrichment Fridays that focus on topics such as drama, music, art, robotics, and coding taught by professionals in their fields of expertise.

Students spend at least two weeks each year outside the school walls on an expedition.

The proposal for the school — now tentatively called «Elm City Imagine» — includes an extended school year with a calendar alternating eight weeks of regular classes with two weeks of «expedition» career engagement; longer school days with staggered teacher schedules; and small - group instruction with more focus on technology.

The teachers would whisk kids away on two - week expeditions while classroom teachers either took vacation or got extra training.

I have watched 7th graders create a grade level science journal reflecting on their week long scientific expedition in the Olympic National Forest in Washington State.

Land Rover Expedition America is more than halfway across the country, three weeks after having departed Asheville, N.C., on their 5,000 - mile route through 10 states.The team is traveling all the way...

A King Ranch Expedition may no longer get you the choice parking spot at the high - end steak place, but it retains a credible spot in the hearts and minds of those doing hard work during the week while playing hard on weekends.

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If you owned 280,000 points you could book two weeks at the two - bedroom, or you could opt to book a one - bedroom (at a cost of 100,000 points for the week) and spend the rest of your points at a nearby theme park or on a guided expedition.

The expedition ships will stay in the Antarctic Peninsula for about a week, acting as a floating hotel: there's nowhere you can stay on land.

Chris Epting I've loved reviewing some of the 3,000 - plus penguin / iceberg / landscape photos I shot in Antarctica last week while on a glorious Quark Expeditions trip with my teenage daughter.

Guests on this week's expedition aboard the Wilderness Adventurer are going to think that bubble net feeding humpbacks are a regular thing in Southeast Alaska.

Staying at the best on - mountain lodges at Kicking Horse, Vagabond Lodge, Copper Horse Lodge and Winston's Lodge, we have set up a full week of resort based skiing alongside a privately hosted welcome drinks reception, a Canadian themed dinner and an amazing night time snowmobile expedition.

I have participated in national bicycle expedition on last week of august at leh.

The only time I have used one was when I was about 17 and went on a 5 - week expedition around Kenya.

During the expedition, he was at sea, on an ice cap or in some remote location for weeks or months on end.

Further, we are asked to believe that the expedition, rather serendipitously it seems, just happened on this place at just the right time, more than 40,000 years from the last similar pattern, and just in time to grab the samples before more warmth destroyed them — perhaps in a time slot a few days - weeks wide.

I took novices on 5 - week expeditions into the mountains and deserts of North America, Africa, and India.