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Friday 19 November 2010

Media reinvent the wheel

Quite funny when new species of grasshoppers and crickets are discovered on Socotra, which happens to be THE SAME that we collected about then years ago? So far for "NEWS"? (in Dutch)
Het laatste nieuws (NL)
NOS-nieuws (NL)De Standaard (???) (B)

Wednesday 17 November 2010

Cave experiences in 3D!

Just as we where looking into 3D stuff for during our next expedition, we will never ever be able to tip on this:
http://www.sanctummovie.com/#/videos/

Thursday 11 November 2010

Data from the field!

These days friends go on holiday and 24h later, you can watch their report on youtube or alike. An example:


Although the report is very nice, it is always informative to check out cave visits.



And I can assure you that this pool (the ONLY pool) inside Hoq Cave IS NOT MEANT TO BE USED AS A DRINKING WATER FACILITY!This is the ONLY habitat known so far of some endemic troglobiontic species, so extremely fragile and valuable.
We can only hope nature will cope with all this change?!