However, when de Rothschild searched Register.com, a company that tracks domain names, he discovered that Algalita's Web site for the project had gone up on June 2, 2007 more than five months after de Rothschild registered his own Plastiki site and made his plans for the expedition public.
UREP, the University of California Research Expeditions Program, partners university scientists with interested members of the public on research expeditions, which are tax-deductible and can also provide scholastic credit.
"This kind of fishing expedition in public place is entirely unacceptable.
The expedition mixed public and private financing, much of which Mr. Chilingarov raised.
Public interest in the expedition was considerable; Shackleton received more than 5,000 applications to join it.
However, there was considerable public enthusiasm for the expedition, and official recognition followed.
For public relations purposes the expedition made its way through several European citiesincluding Hamburg, Cologne, The Hague and Brusselsand was received with ceremony and much attention everywhere.
As Scott's biographer David Crane points out, the expedition's public and private funding was earmarked for scientific work in the Arctic; there was no guarantee that the backers would understand or agree to the proposed volte-face.
Let us go to the moon, but as a public-private, scientifically viable expedition that is in the interest of all mankind.
Longwood Gardens, botanical gardens in Kennett Square, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. The gardens are operated by Longwood Gardens, Inc., a private foundation, which, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and other public horticultural institutions, sponsors expeditions to many parts of the world in search of ornamental plants for introduction into the United States.
