Word: earthwatch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sponsor of the hamster hunt was Earthwatch, a nonprofit organization conceived in the early 1970s by Brian Rosborough, a lawyer. Since scientists always need more manpower for their studies and never have enough money, Rosborough reasoned that they would welcome paying "Earth patriots" eager to spend a week or two on scholarly expeditions in remote places. At first Earthwatch concentrated on the physical sciences, such as the study of volcanoes and eclipses, but as public interest grew in things natural, the organization acquired a strong environmental flavor. This year more than 3,000 EarthCorps volunteers will head...
...close to endearing animals like whales and orangutans, but some more specialized projects have been successful as well. There seems to be no trouble, for example, getting volunteers to walk miles of beach all night long in search of egg-laying turtles. For another, less appealing assignment, Blue Magruder, Earthwatch's director of public affairs, somehow found eight paying volunteers for a study of the use of sewage in agriculture in Ohio...