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Researchers find 24 species believed new to science in Suriname rainforest

...report made public today, the findings from a 2005 expedition led by Conservation International’s Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) and a follow-up survey in 2006 demonstrate the value of exploring unknown regions such as Suriname’s rainforest to assess the need to conserve them. The study sponsored by two mine...

Tibetan antelope slowly recovering, WCS says

Returning from a recent 1,000-mile expedition across Tibet's remote Chang Tang region, Wildlife ... Schaller. Forsaking horses this time, Schaller's expedition used two Land Cruisers and two trucks -- one of which was lost when it broke through ice while cross...

Smithsonian scientists discover new marine species in eastern Pacific

...isiana. Felder will use samples collected on this expedition as part of the crustacean Tree of Life, a project funded by the National Science Foundation, which aims to determine the relationships among all families of crabs and shrimps. Even soft corals, a relatively well-studied group, yielded 15 new species...

UTSA researchers examine effects of global warming on Antarctic

...e region. The pair were part of an international expedition that included scientists and educators from the United States, Chile and Sweden. The National Science Foundation (NSF) funded the 6,000 mile trip which was designed to allow scientists to collect data aboard the Swedish icebreaker Oden during tr...

UF scientists discover new genus of frogmouth bird in Solomon Islands

...ed up the surprising new discovery on a collecting expedition in the Solomon Islands. Theirs is the first frogmouth from these islands to be caught by scientists in more than 100 years. They immediately recognized it was something different. Kratter and Steadman are co-authors to a study analyzing the frogm...

Hopkins researchers discover how brain protein might control memory

... protein as bait, they went on a molecular fishing expedition in a pond filled with other proteins normally foun... The two proteins that came out of the Arc fishing expedition - known as dynamin and endophilin - previously were known to be critical for this swallowing action....

First Biodiversity Census of coral reef ecosystems in the NW Hawaiian Islands

... team of world renown scientists will embark on an expedition to explore coral reef biodiversity in the largest ...ebrates (lobsters, large crabs, sea urchins). This expedition is unique in focusing primarily on the more cryptic small invertebrates (tiny crabs, mollusks, sea s...

Extraordinary life found around deep-sea gas seeps

...amp; Atmospheric Research (NIWA). The 21-member expedition ?led by scientists from WHOI, NIWA, the Scripps In...ealand's eastern continental margin. However, this expedition also revealed the extent to which these communities may face serious threats from human activities. ...

Radiologists attempt to solve mystery of Tut's demise

...im suggests the damage may have been caused by the expedition led by Howard Carter that first discovered Tut's tomb in 1922. "We believe that this broken piece from the first vertebra of the king's spine may have been fractured and dislodged when Carter, Derry, Hamdy and their team tried to remove and free t...

Arctic expedition will investigate alien-like glacier

A scientific expedition to a remote glacier field in Canada's High Arctic may help researchers unlock the secrets about the beginning of life and provide insights for future exploration of our solar system. A team assembled by the University of Calgary's Arctic Institute o...

Tyrannosaur survivorship -- tough times for teens

...ognizing the importance of the site, Currie led an expedition in 1997 to try to find Brown's original quarry and returned annually with a group from the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to excavate the site. The number of Albertosaurus individuals is now known to be at least 22, which range from two to alm...

Arctic coring expedition continues to yield new clues

.... 10 issue of Nature, an article by several of the expedition scientists summarizes their findings: more evidenc...r the North Pole. ACEX, only the second scientific expedition to be conducted by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (established 2003), recovered 339 meters of...

Deep-water discovery

...rchers will return to the Miami area on a separate expedition from May 31 to June 9 to conduct the first in-dept...erstanding of the full system being explored. The expedition will have two main goals. First the team will use the submersible to explore those seafloor areas t...

Drug discovery team to explore newly discovered deep-sea reefs

...rchers will return to the Miami area on a separate expedition from May 31 to June 9 to conduct the first in dept...rstanding of the full system being explored. The expedition will have two main goals. First, the team will use the submersible to explore those seafloor areas t...

Healthy coral reefs of Madagascar resisting damage from climate change

...gram coordinator for CI-Madagascar, led the latest expedition from March 10-24 in the region between Cape d' Ambre and Baie du Loky. The researchers conducted 27 scuba dives and also visited 12 coastal villages to examine how local residents use marine resources. They found healthy coral reefs that have avoide...

Scientists discover dozens of new species in 'Lost World' of western New Guinea

An expedition to one of Asia's most isolated jungles ?in the mis...he Foja Mountains was the species' true home. The expedition took place almost 25 years after Jared Diamond startled the scientific world in 1981 with his discov...

Expedition discovers marine treasures

...ists who recently explored the area. The two-week expedition in January encountered new species of fish, seawee...rs for the Netherlands Antilles (MINA), called the expedition crucial to getting the area protected to benefit local populations. "The community of about 1,500 p...

Oceans are 70 percent shark free

...des information gathered during a major month long expedition along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge between Iceland and the Azores in 2004. More than 100 scientists from over 16 countries were involved in the MAR-ECO project which is part of the 10-year Census of Marine Life programme which is exploring the abundance, ...

Marine conservation organizations team up to conduct Indonesia coral reefs assessment

...d shellfish can prosper and reproduce." Shipboard expedition participants include: British marine biologist Annelise Hagan, Ph.D., the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation Research Fellow at Cambridge Coastal Research Unit, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Sri Lankan mari...

Deep treasure to be found in Oculina Bank

..., Oct. 12, 2005, scientists will begin a six-day expedition to explore one of Florida's most vital but least f... 1975. John Reed, a Harbor Branch coral expert and expedition co-principal investigator, nominated the Oculina reefs to for protection in 1981. In 1984, NOAA a...

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