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Jane Hubert and Olivia Forge visit Australian Museum

After ten posts, you probably know what I thought of the trip ('twas great!), but what did our scientists make of their time in Timor?

The collecting component of the Museum's biggest expedition in 100 years has come to an end. A look at the last day as well as a look back.

The Jurassic Lounge event can be seen as an ideal model for successfully attracting the young adult audience to museums. A case study was conducted on the event for the audience research study "Engaging Young Adults in Museums".

To determine the needs and wants of young adults in museum visiting for the audience research study; Engaging Young Adults in Museums; a short ten question online survey was created and distributed to young adults aged 18-26 years via social media websites such as Facebook.

What are museums around the world currently doing to capture the young adult audience? The second topic investigated in the audience research study "Engaging Young Adults in Museums".

The key barriers preventing young adults from attending museums was the first topic investigated in the audience research study. Engaging Young Adults in Museums.

Engaging Young Adults in Museums an audience research study aimed at discovering the reasons why young adults don't visit museums.

Taking a sample is just the beginning and preserving and processing specimens requires more than just the e-word.

If you want to access the supralittoral zone, you must first master the pooter. Come on a search with senseis Jim and Rosemary...

It's one thing to explain how fish collecting is done, it's another to see it in action... so I strapped a camera to a marine biologist.

In which our intrepid marine scientists spend the day due north, diving at Atauro Island, while our blogger takes photos and makes notes.

With their equipment finally arriving this morning, the marine scientists were able to have their first dive.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. With their equipment still being processed by Customs, our marine scientists got inventive.

Arrive in Dili? Check. Pick up the ethanol? Check. Collect freight? Not yet. What do scientists do when they can't do what they usually do?