Category Ocean research: a history

Challenger Deep & the democratization of science “It never occurred to me that my early life was anything but normal. I was aware that not everyone had a father and an uncle who disappeared into the sky in balloons. This…

Madeira & The Deep One hundred and fifty years ago today, on the 21st December 1872, the HMS Challenger embarked on a voyage of discovery. Marking the birth of oceanography, the Scottish-led expedition circumnavigated the globe on its hunt for…