Nordenskiöld's Expedition to Jenisej, 1876

Liverpool University Expedition to Jamaica

A practical guide to expedition medical planning.

Expedition medical planning is integral in ensuring participant safety and maximising the likelihood of achieving the expedition aims. The task of producing a medical plan will often fall to a medical officer of limited experience. The aim of this article is to provide a concise, practical guide to aid junior medical officers (MOs) in forming a robust and pragmatic medical plan.

Rescuing biogeographic legacy data: The "Thor" Expedition, a historical oceanographic expedition to the Mediterranean Sea

BACKGROUND This article describes the digitization of a series of historical datasets based οn the reports of the 1908-1910 Danish Oceanographical Expeditions to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas. All station and sampling metadata as well as biodiversity data regarding calcareous rhodophytes, pelagic polychaetes, and fish (families Engraulidae and Clupeidae) obtained during these expeditions ...

Notes on the Indian Expedition to Egypt

announced that their work was first completed, and at 1 P.M,, we left Bombay. Our ship was a vessel of only 1,000 tons register, and had always been used for carrying cargo,?very often coals; in fact she was nothing more or less than what is known among sea-faring men as a " ditcher," i. e., a steamer employed in the coal trade . between England and India via the Suez Canal, hence the name. The...

Expedition Discovers Marine Treasures

An underwater mountain that forms the world’s thirdlargest atoll has some of the richest diversity of marine life ever found in the Caribbean, according to scientists who recently explored the area. The two-week expedition in January encountered new species of fish, seaweed and other ocean life at little-studied Saba Bank Atoll, a coral-crowned seamount 250 kilometers southeast of Puerto Rico i...