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Naval inspection

Published on
July 21, 2000
Last updated
May 27, 2015

(Photograph) - Dennis Wheeler, reader in geography at Sunderland University, is heading a team of experts from Spain, France and Holland looking at the naval logs of ships' captains from 1750-1850 for climatic data. He has a European Community grant of Pounds 700,000.

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