scientific expeditions

"Engineering expert Kiki and Connor the marine biologist are sent on a mission to the Arctic. There they discover a research vessel studying the effects of climate change that has become trapped in the sea ice. To make matters worse, one of the ship's scientists who went to find help at a nearby research station hasn't returned. It's up to the Secret Explorers to find the scientist, free the ship, and save the day!"--Provided by publisher.

"The founder of the environmental scientific research organization Blueprint Earth tells the story of her career in geology, the barriers she faced while advocating for more diversity in science and her incredible adventures"--Provided by publisher.

"It's 1835. Cabin boy Simon Covington is on the voyage of a lifetime to the Galapagos Islands with the world-famous scientist, Charles Darwin. But when Simon falls overboard during a huge storm, he washes up on an unexplored island. Stranded there, he makes a discovery that could change the world. Now it's not just his own survival at stake--the future of an undiscovered species is in his hands. But perhaps there's one person who could help... Based on the real events of Charles Darwin's legendary voyage, this is a novel that melds science with wonder"--From the publisher's web site.

"Tells the story of Charles Darwin, and shows how his revolutionary research changed the world forever, discussing his fascination with the natural world which began at an early age, his love of collecting new specimens and keen eye for observation to his groundbreaking theory of evolution"--Provided by publisher.

Four scientists, all female--an anthropolotgist, a surveyor; a psychologist who is the leader; and a biologist, the narrator--infiltrate Area X, the twelfth expedition into this Edenic paradise that has claimed the lives of the previous eleven expedition members. However, it is the secrets these four women take in, rather than what they find there, that will likely be their downfall.

"In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Colonel Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return, once he passes behond the edge of the know world, there's no telling what awaits him."--Dust jacket.

Follows the author and a team of scientists on an expedition to capture a snow leopard in the Himalaya Mountians and secure a satellite transmitter collar to the animal so that its movements can be tracked to further conservation efforts for these endangered animals.

When field scientist Lucy defies the law of her safe but authoritarian home on an oasis by leading a team of researchers into the desert to learn about the greater world, what she finds will change everything, beginning with the knowledge that beetles are not the only living creatures.

Thirty years have passed since Area X appeared, a hostile landscape mysteriously wiped clean of civilization. A government agency known as the Southern Reach is the only body still investigating it. John Rodriguez, Southern Reach's "Control," tries desperately to head up an investigation into the secrets of Area X, each discovery more disturbingly implicating the very organization he is a part of.

Area X is expanding, threatening the humans who have tried with little luck to explore and understand it. Winter rolls in causing even more peril for the last desperate team trying to reach a remote island inside the border, where they hope answers to Area X's origins will be found.