Scientists returning from a preliminary expedition to Franz Josef last week said they had counted about 400,000 fuel barrels and 700 tanks of gasoline and lubricants, many of which have leaked, across the archipelago.
Dr. Sala was a member of a preliminary expedition earlier this year to the island by Oceana, National Geographic and the Waitt Foundation.
A preliminary expedition under Mardonius, in 492 BC, to secure the land approaches to Greece ended with the re-conquest of Thrace and forced Macedon to become a client kingdom of Persia.
A preliminary report from an expedition to document sunken ships, seen by the Guardian, shows that the wrecks of HMS Exeter, a 175m heavy cruiser, and destroyer HMS Encounter have been almost totally removed.
Prior to the drilling of eight sites in the Inner Sea of the Maldives during Expedition 359, a preliminary sequence analysis had been performed on the seismic data (Betzler et al. 2013a, 2013b; Lüdmann et al. 2013) (Fig. 3), amending previous work of Belopolsky and Droxler (2004a, 2004b).
Dubbed "The Newmac Expedition," McCullah plans a preliminary three-month, five-man venture.
In summary, this preliminary study suggests that the design of the Expedition Atlantis intervention, which included four main features that were informed by the findings in previous robot-math interventions (e.g., RSD), was successful in fostering both students' proportional reasoning skills and personal interests/values as determined by within-participant comparisons.
Following up Nearchus's voyage, he now founded an Alexandria at the mouth of the Tigris and made plans to develop sea communications with India, for which an expedition along the Arabian coast was to be a preliminary.
The Race for Water expedition is scheduled to end in December, when the preliminary findings will be sent to several European universities for analysis.
Though this would represent only a very preliminary use of low-coverage WGS data in a gene-finding expedition, this illustration suggests that these data are appropriate for further analysis in linkage and associations studies.
The expedition, called Tara Oceans, has yielded about 1.5 million different plankton taxa, based on an initial preliminary analysis of samples.
