Posts Tagged ‘field research’

Heart of Borneo Expedition Team uses Toughbook 30 in Rainforest Exploration

August 1st, 2011 by

The Heart of Borneo is a sustainably managed and extremely biodiverse rainforest found in Borneo, the world’s third largest island, located in Southeast Asia. This area is shared between Indonesia in the south and Malaysia and Brunei in the North. With roughly 140,000 miles of rainforest, this area of Borneo’s interior is almost completely unknown [...]

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Field Research: Tracking Bats with the Toughbook 19

April 19th, 2011 by

Rivers, lakes and bad roads never stopped Mark Gumbert’s team from tracking bats, but inadequate equipment did. Mark Gumbert, founder and president of Copperhead Environmental Consulting, and his team spend about three weeks every spring researching and tracking bat migrations for both independent and government-commissioned research and need computers that can withstand the terrain, weather [...]

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A Roaring Success – Studying The Galapagos Sea Lion

February 12th, 2010 by

What sort of breeding strategies do Galapagos sea lions pursue; how do their young grow and how does their diving behavior develop? The Galapagos Sea Lion Project is searching for answers to these questions in the unique and remote world of the Galapagos Islands. And the ruggedized convertible Toughbook 19 is involved in the research.

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