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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.

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?

The marine stage of the Museum's expedition to Timor-Leste has begun, with the team arriving safely in Darwin.

With the terrestrial trip completed, the Museum is about to embark on the marine stage of its expedition to Timor-Leste.

Boats in the bay, wrecks in the water and paperwork to process. Entomologist Jacquie Rescei recounts the very beginning of the Museum's terrestrial expedition to Timor-Leste.

While the road conditions in Timor-Leste might be something to try and forget, the friendliness of the people lingers long in the mind. Entomologist Jean Weiner recalls some of the contrasts he noticed during the Museum's terrestrial expedition.