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Re: Are there still scientific expeditions?

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From: JR Bauer
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 00:00
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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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From: juli@uwm.edu (JR Bauer)
Subject: Re: Are there still scientific expeditions?
Date: 1996/09/06
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