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November 13, 2009 12:38 PM

Headed Your Way: Expedition Week

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

The National Geographic Channel kicks off Expedition Week 2009 in the U.S. Sunday night with Search for the Amazon Headshrinkers—and an invitation to shrink your own head.

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November 9, 2009 2:02 PM

The Wildest Dream Debuts at Banff

Posted By Amy Bucci - BlogWild Contributor

The Wildest Dream got its Canadian debut screening Saturday night at the Banff Mountain Film festival. The new National Geographic feature film combines fascinating archival video footage of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine on Mount Everest in 1924, love letters between Mallory and his wife Ruth, and a bold attempt to recreate Mallory and Irvine's bid for the summit by modern-day climbers Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding.

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September 9, 2009 8:57 AM

Bound for the Blue

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

Greetings from Costa Rica, faithful BlogWild followers. For the next three weeks, I’m headed to sea.

National Geographic Fellow Enric Sala, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle, and a team of leading marine scientists from Central America and across the globe have gathered here. Destination: Cocos Island—Isla del Coco, ringed by some of the most shark-rich waters anywhere—and the submerged and all-but-unexplored summits of Las Gemelas (“The Twin Sisters”) seamounts.

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August 10, 2009 9:42 AM

Guyana Frog Travelogue, Part 2

Posted By Valerie C. Clark - Biologist

In my last post, I began the story of my trip up Guyana's Wokomung Massif to the summit of Mt. Kopinang in search of new frog species. In particular, I was on the hunt for frogs with funky odors that repel would-be predators. I literally had my eye on the one above, a red and black Pristimantis that Bruce Means discovered and described as a new species, prompting us to visit the Wokomung Massif together. In general, bright coloration and bold patterns indicate that a frog might be toxic, and on Wokomung, there were more colorful frogs to discover...

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June 23, 2009 4:48 PM

The Future of Exploration: A Different Lens

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

Four National Geographic Emerging Explorers—Kristofer Helgen, Mike Wesch, Katsufumi Sato, and Nathan Wolfe—share their novel paradigms for understanding the world in these highlights from the 2009 Explorers Symposium.

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June 13, 2009 10:23 AM

Frontiers of Exploration

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

More highlights from the 2009 Explorers Symposium: Albert Lin, Robert Pitman, Sam Meacham, Malik Marjan.

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June 11, 2009 6:46 AM

Explorers Symposium: Ocean Now

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

In a week that began with World Ocean Day, some of the planet's most renowned oceanographers and marine conservationists kicked off the annual Explorers Symposium at National Geographic headquarters. The event celebrates the Society's 2009 Emerging Explorers, and gathers pioneers in a host of fields—anthropologists, archaeologists, conservationists, photographers, educators, oceanographers, epidemiologists, paleontologists, geneticists, geographers, linguists, urban planners, and more—from across the globe.

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June 6, 2009 9:36 AM

Ballard's High-Tech Look on Ocean Worlds

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

Several of the Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) Robert Ballard uses to probe the deep were on display Monday at the ribbon-cutting for his new Inner Space Center. They're an essential part of Ballard's "telepresence" exploration scenario, which I described in an earlier post. The most rugged of the submersibles can descend more than 19,000 feet (6 kilometers) beneath the surface of the ocean, collecting samples and transmitting high-definition video from the abyss.

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June 1, 2009 5:40 PM

The Ocean's New Mission Control Center

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

Space has its Houston. Now the ocean has a "Mission Control" of its own, in the form of the spectacular Inner Space Center at the University of Rhode Island (URI) Graduate School of Oceanography in Narragansett. The center, unveiled today as part of the new Ocean Science and Exploration Center and Pell Marine Science Library, is the realization of a decades-old dream by Titanic-finder, oceanographer, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, and URI professor Robert (Bob) Ballard.

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May 11, 2009 10:30 AM

Pulling 'em On

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

I was in northern Minnesota with National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence emeritus Will Steger. He was preparing to trek and paddle solo from the geographic North Pole to land during the summer, when the Arctic Ocean is a treacherous mix of sea ice and open water.

Steger had logged many polar firsts: first explorer since Robert Peary and Matthew Henson (or, some would argue, ever) to lead a dogsled team to the North Pole, first to traverse Antarctica by dogsled, first to traverse the length of Greenland by dogsled, first to traverse the Arctic by dogsled from Russia to Canada's Ellesmere Island.

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