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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?

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.

What have we been up to on Facebook and Twitter? Online Producer Michael Hugill cuts out the stats and pastes in the more interesting social media stories (in a picture book format no less).

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.