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There is an emerging UK Expeditions Forum for this sort of thing.  Its
being discussed at uk.net.news.announce.  Give your support.  Also you
can contact the Royal Geographical Society Expedition Advisory Centre ,
London.

JR Bauer wrote:
> 
> Have you considered EARTHWATCH?  They take trained and untrained
> volunteers for specific projects.
> 
> anon1167@nyx10.cs.du.edu (M) wrote:
> 
> >While hanging around the library today and thinking about how bored I am
> >with with lab work, I decided that what I really wanted was to go on a
> >scientific expedition.  You know, like in the old movies where the
> >scientists cruise around in the tropics, collect specimens, and take them
> >back to England, where they show them off to aristocratic families until
> >some wealthy young woman falls in love them, and they live happily ever
> >after.
> 
> >So I was wondering, are there still scientific expeditions that travel to
> >distant, relatively unexplored parts of the world?  A lab tech that I
> >worked with once went on a 6-month expedition ot Antarctica, but I was
> >thinking of someplace a little warmer.
> 
> >

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