Three Kings Islands Expedition kicks off the museum’s season of marine Three Kings Islands Expedition kicks off the museum’s season of marine

The latest news from the Three Kings Islands Marine Expedition

You're invited to meet the Three Kings scientists tomorrow

Our expedition team is back from the Three Kings Islands and ready to answer your questions about what they found and to show you some of the specimens they collected to help build their understanding of the marine environment. The blog has been a fantastic chance to follow their discoveries but now you can meet them face to face and talk to them about their preliminary findings about marine life in the Three Kings. In the few days since the team got back on dry land they've already identified that one of the fish they found is likely to be a new species. So who knows what tomorrow will bring. You can meet four of the team - including University of Queensland PhD student Libby Liggins and one of the expedition's photographers Richard Robinson - tomorrow at 11am at the Auckland Museum. There are some more details of the session below and we've also got some more underwater footagREAD MORE...

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On April 8 a team of scientists from four different organisations will head off on an expedition to the Three Kings Islands to document the marine life and make new discoveries about the fish and plant species that live there.

The Three Kings Islands expedition – and this real-time blog allowing you to follow the discoveries as they happen – is the first project in a series of big marine projects for Auckland Museum in 2013.

Check out this video where the Three Kings Islands expedition leader and Head of Natural Sciences at Auckland Museum Dr Tom Trnski talks about what you can expect from the expedition and from the major exhibition Moana – My Ocean opening in June this year.

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One Response to “Three Kings Islands Expedition kicks off the museum’s season of marine”

Stephen
March 28, 2013
Hey, I followed the Kermadec expedition and really looking forward to doing the same for this one!
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