Waldo L. Schmitt - Biological Expeditions

Biological Expeditions

• 1918 studying the life history of the spiny lobster at the Scripps Institution, La Jolla, California.
• 1924–1925, was at the Carnegie Institution's Marine Laboratory at Dry Tortugas, Florida, surveying the crustacean fauna of the area, identifying crustaceans found in the stomachs of fishes.
• 1925, awarded the Smithsonian's Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship "for the study of the fauna of countries other than the United States." The scholarship enabled him to collect marine invertebrates along the east coast of South America.
• 1927 Schmitt was aboard Fleurus at Deception Island
• 1933–1935, to the Galapagos Islands sponsored by G. Allan Hancock of Los Angeles, California.
• 1937, a guest of Huntington Hartford, he explored and collected in the West Indies on the Smithsonian-Hartford West Indies Expedition.
• 1938, accompanied President Franklin D. Roosevelt as naturalist on the Presidential Cruise to Clipperton Island, Cocos, and the Galapagos Islands.
• 1939, member of the Hancock South America Expedition and
• 1940 Biologist in charge of field operations on the first United States Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska king crab investigation.
• 1941–1942, on special detail with the United States Navy investigating the possibility of establishing a biological station in the Galapagos Islands.
• 1943, visited South America, under the auspices of the State Department, for the purpose of strengthening relations between United States and Latin American scientists.
• 1955, headed the Smithsonian-Bredin Belgian Congo Expedition.
• 1956–1960 led Bredin sponsored expeditions to the Caribbean (1956, 1958, 1959), the Society Islands (1957), and the Yucatan (1960).
• 1961–1962 Sponsored by a grant from the Office of Naval Research, Schmitt spent the summers of with Harry Pederson photographing the coral reef fauna of the Bahamas Islands.
• 1962–1963, his last expedition - member of the Survey of the United States Antarctic Research Program, the Staten Island cruise to Marguerite Bay and Weddell Sea