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The Race: Another New Species and Contributions from our Citizen Scientists
Colleagues in London, Drs. Simaikis and Edgecombe of the Natural History Museum, have just published a paper on centipedes that includes some very old specimens from São Tomé and Príncipe collected as...
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The Race: The Amphibians of Sao Tome and Principe, and the Expeditionion
The Biodiversity Education team has been hard at work on our product for GG VIII, of April, 2014. The 2000 students we have been visiting since the 3rd grade are now in the 5th grade and will be...
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THE RACE: GULF OF GUINEA VIII NEARS COMPLETION
Our eighth expedition has been a very different one; except for GG V this has been our only all-education mission. Readers will recall that our biodiversity awareness program began in 2010 when we...
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The Race: The Blog Returns with a Science Update
“The Race” has been silent for a while; a sabbatical accompanied by computer glitches at both sites (Wildlifedirect.org; calacademy.org) led to it, but this was not meant to signal a pause in our...
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The Race: More New Species, More New Science
After a reconnaissance by me in 2000, our island expeditions began with the very first in 2001; there were 12 scientists and their students on GG I, and some of us remained in the islands for over two...
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The RACE: SIZE MATTERS!
It is a fundamental tenet of the science of island biogeography that more different species of plants and animals will be found on larger islands than on smaller ones. When we say “larger” in this...
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THE RACE: GG IX – RETURN TO THE BIG ISLAND
The seven members of GG IX all met up in the Lisbon airport on September 18 and arrived the next day in São Tomé. Two new collegues on this expedition are from Portugal. Dr. Luis Mendes, a butterfly...
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THE RACE: Homage to “The Prince”
The island of Príncipe is ancient… at 31 million years of age it is twice as old as São Tomé, yet biologically the two islands are unquestionably related. Along with documenting and describing...
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THE RACE: GG X –“I Came for the Waters”
No apologies for the Casablanca reference! Members of Gulf of Guinea X, our third marine expedition, have recently returned from scuba-sampling the inshore waters of Príncipe. The expedition was led by...
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THE RACE: As the (Flat)worm Turns
Dr. Tom Daniel, senior botanist, demonstrating impressive intrepidity in a Sao Tome river. GG VII A. Stanbridge phot. In the earliest blogs we discussed how islands are ideal for studying certain...
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