Journeys
The expeditions, reassembled
Every dated label is a diary entry. Read a collector’s labels in order and the voyage comes back: the islands in sequence, the days at each, the specimens from every stop. 4 journeys so far, 1975 to 1980, 678 specimens between them.
1 collectors and expeditions86 days in the field2,397 km between stops533 photographed specimens
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Journeys with photographed specimens4 journeys match
Paul K. Higashino
4 islands of the United States · May – Aug 1980
Paul K. Higashino across 4 islands of the United States, May – August 1980421 specimens · 25 stops · 98 days · 946 km
Paul K. Higashino
4 islands of the United States · Jan – May 1977
Paul K. Higashino across 4 islands of the United States, January – May 1977104 specimens · 19 stops · 118 days · 802 km
Paul K. Higashino
4 islands of the United States · Feb – Mar 1975
Paul K. Higashino across 4 islands of the United States, February – March 197586 specimens · 11 stops · 51 days · 498 km
Paul K. Higashino
Oʻahu and Kahoʻolawe · Oct – Nov 1976
Paul K. Higashino in Oʻahu and Kahoʻolawe, October – November 197667 specimens · 5 stops · 28 days · 151 km
How a journey is found
Every specimen with a full date (year, month and day; a bare “1 January” is treated as a missing day) and a named collector is a diary entry. For each collector the days are read in order, each day given the place most of its labels name. The place where a collector spent more than forty percent of their days, and at least sixty of them, is home: days there are left out.
A gap of more than 21 days between collecting days ends one journey and begins the next. A journey must run five to four hundred days, hold at least forty specimens and touch at least two places. Within it, consecutive days inside the same or a neighbouring tenth-of-a-degree cell (about eleven kilometres) are one stop; the stop’s point is the mean of its labels’ coordinates, or the island’s centre when none carry any.
Companions are collectors whose own labels put them in the same cell on the same days. Staff can name a journey, write about it, feature it or hide it; those words survive every rebuild. Everything else is read off the specimens and rebuilt by harvest.mjs expeditions as the records improve.