It was a helpful experience for me, because after a few years of concentrating on the résumés of senior scientists, board members, and vice presidents, I needed a refresher in what entry-level marketing materials look like today from new grads and postdocs.
Current addresses were sought firstly through personal networks (35 identified, 28 replied), and secondly, through New Zealand registration authorities: Medical Council of New Zealand (21 identified as sole source, 11 replied), New Zealand Pharmacy Council (21 identified, 11 replied), Medical Laboratory Scientists Board and Physiotherapy Board of New Zealand.
Scientists boarded the vessels, shouldering diagnostic equipment, but these ships, too, turned out to be clean; as it happened, the offending vessel was on an Asian route, and its cargo was scrap metal mixed with radioactive materials that had been dumped improperly.
On Tuesday scientists boarded a research vessel bound for a part of the Indian Ocean where Earth's crust is thin.
On July 11th its icebreaker, Xue Long ("Snow Dragon"), embarks on the country's sixth Arctic expedition, with 65 scientists on board.
The top scientists on board, Samantha Joye of the University of Georgia and Vernon Asper of the University of Southern Mississippi, peered intently at instrument readouts, hoping for a signal.
In 2008, scientists on board a British scientific research vessel collected samples of pteropod snails from the Scotia Sea in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean.
Financed by the National Science Foundation, the scientists on board, using gear mounted on the submarine's hull, fired unusually fine beams of sound into the depths.
But the commanders, crew and scientists on board the US ship hope they will prove to be just the opposite – a site where future crimes can be prevented.
Once it's close to the ocean floor, usually four or five kilometers down, the scientists on board have a detailed profile of the water below them.
Their purpose is not to educate and entertain visitors, but to further the museum's role as one of the world's leading research institutions, with more than 200 scientists on board.
