🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <4vss65$gs8@nyx10.cs.du.edu>, M <anon1167@nyx10.cs.du.edu> wrote:
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>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.  

There are a few companies such as EarthWatch of Cambrigdge MA that find
helpers for expeditions.  You have to pay your expenses plus a fee to
EarthWatch.  Most of the work is fairly routine punctuated by the thrill of discovery.

If you hook up with the right school, there can be a fair amount of exciting
field work.  In the 1970s it was the oceanographic insitutes to pin down
the details of seafloor tectonics.  Nova reported on a U. of Chicago dinosaur
excavation to a dangerous area of Chad.  There were skeletons just laying around on
the ground in this area.