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Expeditions - Day in the life

We have collected a sample of the comments, memories and reflections of some of our recent volunteers and some of our permanent staff members to provide a snapshot of a day in the life of a Blue Ventures expedition.

Please click on 'read more' under each name to find out their story, or visit our Indian Ocean Scholarship page to read about our Malagasy Scholars' experiences.

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Charlotte

Charlotte Coombes attended an expedition in September 2008 after a 6 month internship at Blue Ventures' London office

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Guillame

 

Guillame Marchais, 27, attended an expedition in March 2008.

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Emily

Emily, 18, attended two Blue Ventures expeditions on her gap year in 2007.

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Mike

Mike Cowdy was a research volunteer for Blue Ventures on the February 2005 expedition.

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Will

Will Proto, a biologist from Liverpool University volunteered with us in June 2004.

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Jess

Jessica Jambert-Grey worked with us for almost 6 months in Andavadoaka, where she became actively involved in developing our social research program.

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Catherine

Catherine Burgess, a doctoral student from Cambridge University, joined us as a research volunteer in May 2004.

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Andrew

Andrew Ritchie was a Blue Ventures research volunteer from Australia. He took part in the December 2003 expedition.

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Leda

Leda Smith, 26, from Alaska (Blue Ventures’ first volunteer from the Arctic!), spent 3 months with us as a volunteer working actively on our outreach and education programme in Andavadoaka village.  Here she describes some of her memories from the project.

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Emily

Emily Carroll was on the December 2004 expedition and is now at Edinburgh University studying Biology.

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Neil

Neil Madigan, 24, from the UK, was on the December 2004 expedition.

Read more: Neil