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Agnes Breniere |
| Agnès grew up in the French Alps and quickly became interested by exploring nature. Also conscious of the need of its protection and conservation, Agnès studied Environmental Law and Management. As a naturalist she is convinced that wonderment is the first step towards respect for nature and the environment and has various experiences as field guide. In 2005 she initiated and led a project concerning access to nature for disabled people, in partnership with the French Bird’s Protection League. After the virus of travelling she got the polar virus and became naturalist guide and lecturer aboard cruise ships, specialized in ornithology, history and geopolitics of the polar regions. When she can, Agnès find also time to photograph nature, do hiking or mountain biking. |
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Alain Bidart |
| Alain Bidart is French; he received his PhD in Fluid Mechanics from the University of Bordeaux and worked as researcher, then he has decided to devote himself to his passion for Polar Regions and nature. He worked first as scientific popularizer with the International Polar Foundation. In the framework of two educational projects for teachers and primary schools, he took part in two expeditions in Antarctica: two months under the tent on the ice sheet with a team of mountaineers, then a trip of one month on an ice-breaker for the first sighting of a total solar eclipse in Antarctica. |
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Alan Hardwick |
| Initially trained as a biologist Alan spent several years after university working in fish farming and learnt to dive, naturally enough, in a fish tank on the West coast of Scotland. Fascinated by the underwater world he spent much of the next 25 years exploring the seas around the Scottish Islands, leading expeditions to places such as St Kilda and further afield in the Faroe Islands. He considers himself lucky to have been able to travel to Africa and to have worked on a research project in Costa Rica studying the seasonal dynamics of a tropical dry forest. |
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Albert Beintema |
| Albert is an animal ecologist in The Netherlands. He wrote his PhD on management of farmland birds. He studied farmland birds and marsh birds in Holland and in Africa, and spent two seasons studying penguins in Antarctica. He consulted on nature management in Central America, Africa, and Asia. For many years he has been lecturing on expedition cruises in the Antarctic, and the Atlantic Ocean, specialising on Atlantic Odysseys, touching South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, Saint Helena, Ascension, and the Cape Verdes. His favourite is Tristan, where he has been 9 times, first to study the mysterious flightless Moorhen. Albert wrote hundreds of papers in scientific and popular journals, and several book chapters. He wrote four books, in Dutch, on Antarctica, Tristan da Cunha, and birds and nature in general. |
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Alexandra Edwards |
| Alexandra Edwards has been carrying out archaeological fieldwork and ethnographic studies in Rapa Nui (a.k.a. Easter Island) and French Polynesia for the past 12 years. She presently resides in Rapa Nui where she has worked extensively for the Eastern Pacific Research Foundation. She recently participated in an Explorer’s Club Flag Expedition to Raivavae, one of French Polynesia’s most remote islands. Originally a film major from Wesleyan University she has worked on three documentaries about Easter Island, Raivavae, and the Society and Marquesas Islands. |
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Andrew Wenzel |
| Andrew is Canadian and resides in Vancouver British Columbia “the most beautiful city in the world” according to him. His varied naturalist, guiding and photography experience includes; nine years with the ORES Centre for Coastal Field Studies as a field director conducting whale research and photographing whales, underwater stills photographer on the T.V. shows The Last Frontier and Danger in the Sea, tour leader in Ecuador and the Galapagos, 12 seasons on small ships in Antarctica and the Arctic as a lecturer. Four seasons as a naturalist for Holland America in Alaska. Naturalist at the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre. |
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Bill Nandris |
| After reading archaeology at Southampton University, Bill trained as a boat-builder nearby on the River Itchen. For the next 10 years, he worked as coxswain, fleet/equipment manager and project manager in operations in the UK, Australia and at sea in the NE Atlantic. He is a highly experienced/certified powerboat handler and instructor. Bill co-founded a marine consultancy in 2002 and owns and runs the London Powerboat School, a recognised RYA Training Establishment. Currently Bill is a dad and husband but somehow still finds time for training a variety of clients, from professional all the way up to beginner. He also provides training and support for scientific expeditions in the Arctic, where he indulges his amateur interest in the science of the region. |
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Brad Rhees |
| A long time resident of Colorado and British Columbia studied in Business Administration. After 5 years working in a corporate environment he realized that his destiny was to be in an outdoor or recreational occupation. Brad met Lars Eric Lindblad, an innovative leader in the adventure travel business, where an agreement was struck between the two and he found himself working in Egypt, Galapagos, Amazon and Antarctica. |
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Brent Stephenson |
| Brent was born in New Zealand and has been a birder since childhood, and in 2005 completed his Ph.D., studying the breeding biology of Australasian gannets in New Zealand. In 2003, along with Sav Saville, co-owner of their bird-guiding business, he rediscovered the “extinct” New Zealand storm-petrel, a bird known previously from only three museum specimens collected during the 1800s. With support from National Geographic, he has been leading a team conducting further research on this enigmatic seabird. |
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Callum Thomson |
| Callum Thomson was brought up in the British Isles and spent his youth as a crofter, lobster fisherman, expert ditch digger and dairy farm manager before emulating his Highland Clearance forebears and clearing out to Canada. He somehow completed degrees in archaeology and anthropology at University of Calgary, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Bryn Mawr College and parlayed them, along with his expertise in ditch digging, into a job as Provincial Archaeologist for Newfoundland and Labrador and Curator at the Newfoundland Museum. |
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Chantal Cookson |
| Chantal was born in Suffolk and now lives in Northumberland where her husband farms. Chantal has been associated with Noble Caledonia since the company was founded in 1990, having worked for Serenissima Travel before. She was part of the Expedition Team for many years on the MS. Caledonia Star and has led tours, be it cruising or land, all over the world. Chantal’s initial experience of cruising in British waters was in 1990 when Noble Caledonia did the first cruise around the British Isles, which was a ground breaking voyage and led to a very successful and popular concept. |
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Chris Cutler |
| Hailing originally from the concrete-lined habitats of Chicago, Chris is a naturalist-ornithologist-field biologist whose researches and travels have taken him to less disturbed and more far-flung locales. Since studying biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he has worked as a researcher, ecological consultant, and naturalist guide. |
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Chris Harbard |
| Chris Harbard has travelled the world in search of birds, from his first trip abroad to Austria to far flung places like Antarctica, Greenland, Saudi Arabia (to monitor the effects of the Gulf War on birds), South Africa (to help penguins following the Treasure oil spill), Chile and Japan. He is a well-known British ornithologist and conservationist who lives in Cambridgeshire. |
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Colin Baird |
| Colin grew up on the west coast of Canada and developed a love for the sea at an early age, sailing and scuba diving the local waters off Vancouver Island. He spent 10 years as a marine mammal trainer working with seals, sea lions and orca (perhaps better known as Killer Whales). In 2002 he was hired by Jean Michel Cousteau as the director of field operations for the Free Willy/ Keiko Project in Iceland and Norway. This was and remains today the only attempt to release a previously captive orca back into the wild. |
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Colin Jones |
| Colin Jones is an accredited lecturer with the Royal Horticultural Society and flower judge for the Surrey Guild of Horticultural Judges. For 35 years a Film Editor and Director at BBC Television specializing in travel and documentary programmes. As a photographer he has travelled the world and recorded the great botanic gardens and their plants. |
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Craig Ward |
| Craig is a peripatetic marine professional. Dive instructor, marine biologist & ships captain, for over twelve years he has been involved in marine research and education throughout the Indo-pacific. Particularly the Northern Great Barrier Reef, the Kimberley, south-east Asia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. In recent years his work has seen him travel further a field and he has now added the Americas to his bow. Already having a background in Coral Reef Ecology, Craig studied Zoology at James Cook University, Cairns; and while doing so maintained an active input into expedition tourism. As an undergraduate he was employed as a research project coordinator for the biology department under the senior zoologist. |
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Danny Edmunds |
| In 2003 Danny grew tired of earning a living building databases and living in central London and since then he’s worked as a photographer, diver, travel writer and boat handler in some of the most undeveloped and remote parts of the world. He's driven Zodiacs in the Indian Ocean, the Antarctic and the Arctic, radio-tracked Spectacled bears in the Ecuadorian Andes, surveyed horse-mussel beds off the Llyn peninsula in north Wales and updated the Bradt Guides to Mozambique and Spitsbergen. Danny spent 16 months living south of the Antarctic Circle, working as the Boating Officer at Rothera, the British Antarctic Survey base down on the Antarctic Peninsula, and has a further three seasons experience working on ships in the Southern Ocean. |
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Dennis Wille |
| Dennis first became enamored of birds as a youngster in his native Costa Rica. Living in Central America, it is not difficult to see how ornithology could become the favorite science for any nature enthusiast, as there are well more than one thousand bird species in the region. He even has a passion for bird sounds and has a collection of them — he worked on the creation of a CD together with a talented pianist that mixes the piano with the sounds of the birds. |
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Dmitri Banin |
| Born in Moscow, Russia, Dmitri studied biology at Moscow State University (MSU) where he completed his Ph.D. in Zoology and then continued his work in MSU’s Laboratory of Ornithology. His research expeditions have taken him too many remote areas, such as White Sea, Central Asia, Siberia and Russian Far East. Subsequently Dmitri was invited to work for the USSR Ministry of Natural Resources as the Head of the Department of Science. |
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Dr Chris Edwards |
| A native of Scotland, after graduating from the University of Glasgow Chris was employed by the British Antarctic Survey and spent two and a half years in Antarctica as a field geologist. On return to the UK via a tour of South America he obtained a Ph.D. and published scientific papers based on his Antarctic work. Twelve years in the oil exploration industry saw Chris initially based in Aberdeen working both offshore and onshore before postings to South America and the Far East. |
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Dr Colleen Batey |
| Dr Colleen Batey is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Glasgow with extensive experience of both excavation and publication in the arena of Viking and Late Norse Culture in the North Atlantic and Scotland. A graduate of the University of Durham, she has held lectureships in the University of Leeds and University College London before taking up the post of Curator of Archaeology at Glasgow Museums, the largest Metropolitan Museum service in the UK. She was the British advisor for the Smithsonian Institute Vikings North Atlantic Saga exhibit which toured widely in the US and Canada. |
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Dr. Daria Nikitina |
| Dr. Daria Nikitina is a geology professor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA. Her background is in the interdisciplinary and systematic study of landforms and the earth surface processes that create and change them. Daria was born in Moscow, Russia where she resided with her family until 1994. Daria received a master degree in geography from Moscow State University, Russia and a Ph.D. degree in geology from University of Delaware, USA. |
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Dr. Ingrid Visser |
| Ingrid is a whale biologist who completed her doctorate studying orca-whales (killer whales). She is the only person to study these animals in the South Pacific and bases most of her research in her native country, New Zealand. Ingrid is one of the few people in the world to study orca underwater, and does this without backup support such as ‘shark cages’. She has worked with the internationally-renowned Discovery Channel to produce a documentary about her research as well as with various other film companies. Ingrid is an avid wildlife photographer and her work has been published in National Geographic and BBC Wildlife magazines. |
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Dr. Susan Currie |
| Susan was born and brought up in North East England but has lived for the last 24 years in Aberdeen in North-East Scotland. After obtaining her Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the University of Exeter and a Doctoral degree from the University of Cambridge she was employed to work as a geologist in the oil and gas industry. As a senior geologist for the BP company her responsibilities included exploring for new oil and gas fields, developing existing fields, working offshore on oil rigs in the North Sea, and geological field studies in isolated areas on land. She has published papers in a number of academic journals. |
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Emily Schindler |
| Emily is a Canadian businesswoman with a wide range of interests, starting in the business world as an engineer and later owning and managing a software development company. Even as a young child growing up in Switzerland she showed an unusual desire to explore nature and later became an avid rock and ice climber, skier, mountaineer, sailor and long-distance runner. She has skied and sled-hauled on a North Magnetic Pole Expedition, a South Pole Expedition and also guides clients on ski and sled hauling expeditions across Baffin Island. |
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Graham Bell |
| Graham Bell is a well-known British ornithologist living in Wooler, Northumberland, in north-east England. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and Durham University, he graduated with Honours in French and English, later gaining a Diploma in Education and pursuing a career in teaching. But his chief interest has always been natural history, with birds paramount. Formerly County Bird Recorder for North-East England and editor of three annual County Bird Reports, he was a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee for 14 years and of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Council, Conservation and Education Committees. |
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Guy Esparon |
| Guy Esparon was born in the Seychelles and migrated to Australia in 1971, where he spent 30 years living between many of Australia’s cities and the outback. However, his heart never left the Seychelles. Guy lived his dream when he worked on the Aldabra World Heritage Site as Chief Warden. He has an incredible passion and love for Aldabra. He has worked on various expedition ships calling at the Seychelles, and has shared his love for nature and Aldabra with those fortunate enough to visit |
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Hannah Lawson |
| For the past twelve years Hannah has divided her time between working on expedition cruise ships as a wildlife guide, zodiac driver and expedition leader and creating artwork in her from her studio in Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire. She has a bachelors degree in zoology from the University of Liverpool and gained a Masters in Natural History Illustration at the Royal College of Art, London. |
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Ian Bullock |
| Ian Bullock is a British biologist who lives in St.Davids, Pembrokeshire, on the south-western seaboard of Wales. Since 1978 he has specialised in seabird surveys, habitat management for endangered species and the conservation of remote island nature reserves. For 25 years he worked for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds as both research biologist and warden, establishing new reserves for conservation and managing offshore islands. In spare moments since 1990 he has worked as guide and lecturer on board expedition ships in the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans, as well as Arctic and Antarctic environments. He loves the sea, wildlife and wilderness and relishes any opportunity to share this enthusiasm with fellow adventurers. |
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James Thomson |
| James William Stuart Thomson is named for the first and only all-steel sailing schooner constructed in Canada. The James William, built by J. W. Carmichael, three-masted and 399 metric tons, was launched at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia in 1908, effectively presaging Jimmy’s own launch into the cruise industry only 102 years later. |
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Jamie Watts |
| Jamie spends some of his time as a fisheries consultant, researcher and marine life educator, including writing for several magazines. He spends most of the year, though, on expedition ships offering topside and dive trips to remote parts of the world, particularly the polar regions. Jamie spent two years posted as a fisheries scientist and marine ecologist for the British Antarctic Survey on the remote and wonderful island of South Georgia. |
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Jane Thomson |
| A Nova Scotian “Bluenose”, Jane Sproull Thomson grew up by the sea, learning to swim perforce when her dad threw her off the family sailboat. Passionate about art but lacking in talent, she became one of those who teaches rather than does, writing and lecturing on cultural history, archaeology and art history to museum, university and avocational groups. Until recently she was professor of Inuit and native art and culture at the University of Calgary, and is a former curator for the Glenbow, Newfoundland and Red Deer College Museums. |
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Jane Wilson |
| Jane was born and raised in Australia. She graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Science and then a Master of Environmental Studies. She worked for the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service for the following 15 years until she was bitten by the Antarctic bug. For several years Jane worked in remote field camps in Antarctica as a wildlife research scientist, specialising in the ecology of seabirds, including several petrel and penguin species. This coincided with the boom in expedition cruising and Antarctic tourism in the late 1990s. |
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Jannie Cloete |
| Jannie, a native South African, grew up on a farm in the beautiful Mpumalanga Province. After obtaining a degree in Advertising and Public Relations, Jannie traveled extensively throughout Europe before returning home to pursue a career on land. During this time he met up with two cruise line entrepreneurs based in Israel and joined their company as Public Relations Officer. It was during his first cruise season sailing around South Africa and the remote islands of the Indian Ocean that he found his sea legs - and his calling. |
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Jarda Versloot |
| Jarda was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and resides in South Africa. In neither country she spends too much time as she has been working full time on ships for the last six years. She said farewell to Holland at the age of 18 and left this small country to explore the world. During her travels she discovered her love for the ocean. |
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John Love |
| Born in Inverness, John Love graduated in zoology at Aberdeen University. In 1975 he went to live on the Isle of Rum where he managed a highly successful project to reintroduce the white-tailed sea eagle. While he remains involved with birds of prey, seabirds are another passion. For over forty years he has been cruising the Hebrides and visiting remote islands but in that time he has also travelled extensively throughout the world, from Arctic Norway to the Antarctic, and from India and Africa to the Galapagos. |
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John Sparks |
| John Sparks, born in Colchester, is a zoologist and naturalist with a special interest in birds. After graduating at Queen Mary College, University of London, he became a Research Fellow at the London Zoo in a new unit headed by Desmond Morris. In 1965 he moved to Bristol and spent the rest of his professional life as a TV Producer in the BBC’s renowned Natural History Unit, becoming its Head between 1983 and 1988. |
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Kevin Morgan |
| An enthusiastic naturalist with a passion for wildlife enthusiast, Kevin has been a keen birdwatcher since childhood and he has worked on cruise ships from Antarctica to the Arctic, Iceland to Norway, and the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, with the British Isles being a favourite with its diverse coastline and seabird colonies. Kevin was a naturalist on a sailing expedition from South Africa to the UK; on a junk in the South China Seas, and he has led whale watching tours, from Blue Whale encounters off California, to swimming with dolphins in the Bahamas and has seen over 40 species of cetaceans. |
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Kit Van Wagner |
| Kit Van Wagner grew up in Japan, Norway, England, and the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Experiencing life in these diverse places fostered in her a curiosity about the natural world from an early age. After earning a bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College in Vermont, she journeyed south spending several years as a backcountry kayak and sailing guide, and as a marine science educator in the Florida Keys. While living in the Keys, Kit obtained her USCG Captain's license and scuba instructor rating. |
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Laurie Dexter |
| Laurie is an extreme athlete whose feats include skiing for 91 days from Russia to Canada through the Geographic North Pole, skiing and sled hauling to the South Pole, traversing the ice caps of Greenland, Baffin Island, and King George Island in Antarctica, and numerous other polar region expeditions. As a runner he also goes to extremes, including having run 100 km in 8 hours, over 200 km in 24 hours, 600 km in 6 days, and 10 marathons in 10 days. He is also a mountaineer and has made numerous first ascents in the Arctic and in recent years has climbed a number of mountains in the Swiss Alps including the Matterhorn and Mont Blanc. |
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Lori Gross |
| Inspired by the natural world and her love of travel, Lori Gross has spent over 15 years sharing her knowledge of marine and environmental science with others through experiential education, ecotourism and photography. Her work on expedition ships as a lecturer and zodiac driver has taken her to both the tropics and the poles. In 2001, Lori founded a non-profit organization specializing in interactive museum exhibit design and international ECO Journeys programs for students. Lori also works as a consultant for schools in curriculum design, program evaluation and teacher training. |
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Louis Justin |
| Louis was born and grew up in Normandy. After graduating from Europe’s leading management school, École des Hautes Études Commerciales, he spent four years in Australia and New Zealand, during which he took every opportunity to thoroughly explore these countries, as well as neighbouring Pacific-Ocean lands, their cultures, ancient and modern, their deserts, icy and tropical, their volcanoes, extinct and active. |
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Martin Enckell |
| After learning that his father worked for Jacques-Yves Cousteau aboard the famous ship Calypso, Swedish-born Martin Enckell insisted on learning to dive right away. His training started at the age of 12 with Israeli navy divers in the Red sea, and since that time he has successfully combined his love of travel with his love of nature. Martin began his career at sea 15 years ago and has been on the move since then, having stood at the Geographical North Pole 7 times, spent long over a year in the Drake Passage, 10 Austral summers in the Antarctic, and crossed the Antarctic Circle several times. |
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Michael Moore |
| A Chicago native, Mike earned both his B.S. in biology and an M.S. degree in Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution at the University of Illinois. Since then he has spent 10 years doing research around the Pacific Rim, studying endangered honey creepers in Hawaii, native hens in Tasmania, and everything from pythons to wallabies in Northern Queensland. He has lived in the Highlands of New Guinea, logged hundreds of hours beneath its waters working for conservation organizations, taught field biology courses for the University of PNG, and is working on the second edition of the field guide, Birds of New Guinea. |
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Michael Scott |
| A botanist by training, Michael has a wide interest in all natural history. He is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and former Deputy Chair of Scottish Natural Heritage, the Scottish Government conservation agency. His books include Scottish Wild Flowers and the Young Oxford Book of Ecology, and he contributed to Oceans and The Natural History Book (Dorling Kindersley). He is a regular contributor to Saving Species and The Living World on BBC Radio 4. He spends as much time as he can on cruise ships and is happiest on deck with his wife Sue, spotting seabirds, whales and dolphins and chatting with the passengers. He was awarded the OBE in 2005 “for services to biodiversity conservation in Scotland”. |
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Niall Johnson |
| Niall belongs to the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. Formerly a college lecturer he returned to these islands in 1992 to establish his own adventure training centre. A highly respected outdoor professional, Niall has pioneered adventure training in the Outer Hebrides and his knowledge and skills are sought all over the world. |
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Olga Stavrakis |
| Olga holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology specializing in peoples and cultures of Central America and the Caribbean. She started her graduate career at the fabled site of Tikal in the jungles of Guatemala where she worked with the original University of Pennsylvania archaeological and ecological project. She then continued her studies in northern Belize, where she studied nutrition and economics of the modern Maya, living and working in remote villages with her archaeologist husband and children over a period of 8 years. As a result of this research she became the regional coordinator for a major agricultural development project funded by USAID, aimed at improving training and information dissemination to farmers in the Caribbean region. |
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Olle Carlsson |
| Olle was born in Sweden and is currently lives there. Formerly a teacher, he left the profession in order to write, photograph, play jazz and travel. He has travelled extensively in the Atlantic sector of the Arctic, including the Northwest Passage, Greenland and Svalbard. Since 1991 he has spent the northern winter seasons in his favourite area: Antarctica, sharing the migration route of the Arctic tern, always heading for summer, in the North as in the South. In Antarctica he has been an expedition leader, naturalist and lecturer for different companies |
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Pamela Le Noury |
| Coming from Durban, South Africa, Pam is a marine scientist, PADI dive instructor, zodiac skipper and sailor, and has worked in and on the ocean just about every day for the past decade. She owns a whale watching business with a marine monitoring program in Durban, and has managed diving and boating operations for many years. She has participated in several marine research cruises, dabbling in everything from satellite tagging dolphins to coral reef transects and fisheries stock assessment, also contributing to reef fish guides, is co-author of a digital shark guide and several scientific papers. Pam started Expedition Cruising in 2008, and has since been around the world in the capacity of marine lecturer / zodiac driver / assistant and expedition leader. |
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Pete Raine |
| Pete is a lifelong naturalist, and an experienced lecturer, writer and broadcaster. He enjoys sharing his experience and passion about birds, plants, insects, and about the history of the planet and the forces that have made our wildlife what it is. After an early career as a chartered accountant in the 1970’s, Pete’s work has always revolved around the environment. He worked for Friends of the Earth from 1976 to 1979, and was Director of the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth from 1980 to 1986. |
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Peter Clement |
| Peter Clement grew up on a sheep ranch in the Falkland Islands and received his formal education in Somerset, England. In 1969, he traveled to Australia and began work in the sheep farming industry in Victoria and subsequently worked in every state in Australia and New Zealand. In 1978, he began working on expedition ships in the Antarctic, Russian Arctic, Galapagos, South Pacific, China, and Central and South America. In 1983, he came to North America, obtained his pilot’s license in Ontario, Canada . |
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Pierre Malan |
| Pierre is an oceanographer and marine biologist with more than forty years of experience in the field. During thirty years as a research technician at the Sea Fisheries Research Institute in South Africa he worked largely in the South-East Atlantic Ocean, the South-West Indian Ocean and the Antarctic, taking part in numerous research cruises, often as chief scientist. |
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Richard Grundy |
| Richard is a geography teacher who lives in rural Somerset, England. He enjoyed a three year post in the remote Tristan da Cunha school during which he acted as a mountain guide, introduced Tristan Islands Studies to the school curriculum and pioneered an Atlantic Yellow-Nosed Albatross study project. Richard runs the Tristan website www.tristandc.com, edits the Tristan da Cunha Newsletter, gives regular talks on the islands and is author of two Tristan books. He is joining MS Island Sky’s cruise to ‘Tristan da Cunha and Beyond’ looking forward to sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm for Tristan and its people. |
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Richard Price |
| A childhood interest in biology led Rick into a ten year career working as a marine biologist for the British Antarctic Survey. He spent five winters and eight summers on the British station on Signy Island, two as the winter station commander. For this service he was awarded the Polar Medal by HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace in 1988. In 1987 he left science behind and pursued and is still pursuing a career as a wildlife cameraman, specialising in underwater and polar filming. |
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Robin L. Aiello |
| Robin Aiello has spent most of her life on, and in, the oceans of the world. It is her passion. Growing up along the New England coast of the USA, she learned to scuba dive with her family in 1974. Her love for the underwater world led her to Harvard University, where she studied with the famous palaeontologist, Professor Steven J. Gould and graduated in 1984 with highest honours in Evolutionary Biology (Palaeontology) and Geological Sciences |
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Robin West |
| Robin was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, has German Nationality and from time to time resides in Holland, however spends very little time in any of these countries since working on Expedition ships. After completing his degree in Human Movement Science he opened up two PADI dive Centres coupled with outdoor adventure companies in the Garden Route. With his passion of the outdoors combined with his great love for the ocean, he decided to work full time on Expedition Ships. |
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Roger Lovegrove |
| Roger Lovegrove is a native of Devon, born in 1935. Initially a school teacher, he taught physical education in Sussex and Mid Wales for twelve years before joining the staff of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds as its Director for Wales. He worked in this post for 27 years, developing it from a one-man office to a permanent workforce of over 50 and seeing it regarded as a major environmental force in Wales. He retired in 1997. |
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Samuel Blanc |
| Samuel lives in the Alpes Moutain in the middle of the wild nature. As a child he learned about the birds, mammals, flowers and wildlife. Later he worked as volunteer with several associations concern with environmental protection. Samuel has a degree in the biological sciences, and the management and protection of natural areas. After completing his education he worked for 3 years as naturalist guide at the French League for Birds Protection. With this organization he was responsible for all the educational projects with schools and universities. In addition he led numerous field excursions to explore nature and to appreciate the wildlife in France and Spain. |
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Sarah Dwyer |
| Originally from the UK, Sarah has completed a BSc in Marine and Environmental Biology at St Andrews University in Scotland. Since then she has worked as a Whale Watch Guide on the Isle of Mull on the West Coast of Scotland and in Kaikoura, New Zealand where Sarah now lives. She has spent time volunteering for the Orca Research Trust and had the opportunity to travel to Papua New Guinea on expedition with Dr Ingrid Visser and Jean-Michel Cousteau. |
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Simon Boyes |
| Simon Boyes began watching birds in England at the age of 12, and has rarely put his binoculars down since. He has a degree in Classics from Oxford University (useful for understanding scientific names!) and a M.Sc. in Environmental Conservation from Edinburgh. For the last 33 years he has scratched a living leading wildlife tours (mostly bird-watching tours), to all 7 continents: almost 300 in all. He has worked on 8 Antarctica cruises, two to Spitsbergen and one each to the Amazon, Sea of Cortez and round the British Isles. Having turned his first hobby into work, Simon has found some new ones: wildlife gardening, cricket, snorkelling, baking bread and playing traditional Irish jigs and reels on mandolin. He has lived in the same cottage on the Welsh borders for 30 years, now with his wife, daughter (17) and son (13). |
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Stuart Burmeister |
| Stuart’s home is in Durban, South Africa. He grew up literally in the wilds of Africa and has a good knowledge of the indigenous people and regions of many African countries. His maritime background has covered sea rescue search and recovery operations, sailing and power boating. His qualifications cover all power vessels from a Zodiac to a class six craft over 200 tonnes. |
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Sue Flood |
| Sue Flood is a freelance professional photographer and wildlife filmmaker. After 11 years with the BBC Natural History Unit, working on series such as The Blue Planet and Planet Earth and Disneynature's movie 'Earth' she turned freelance in 2005. Sue has a degree in zoology and was Assistant Producer on The Blue Planet, working on amazing sequences such as killer whales hunting gray whales in California, Polar Bears stalking Beluga Whales in the High Arctic (both filmed for the first time), and glow-in-the-dark Squid in Japan. |
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Sue Scott |
| Sue is a marine biologist and underwater photographer, with a particular interest in the marine life of the cool northern waters around Scotland. She writes a regular British Beasts column for Dive magazine, and has contributed articles and photographs to many publications, including Oceans: The World’s Last Wilderness Revealed. She first visited Tristan da Cunha in 2004 and became fascinated by its unique underwater environment. She has returned several times since to lead a project on the marine biodiversity of the island group, funded by the Darwin Initiative. She has worked with the island community to help minimise the biological impact first of an oil rig that stranded on the island in 2006, then of a bulk carrier that sank, spilling fuel oil and diesel, in early 2011. She has also dived around Ascension and St Helena, and lectured on marine life on a variety of cruise ships. |
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Susan Adie |
| Susan is a graduate of Cornell University, where among other projects she wrote and presented a radio program on bird biology while a student there. For 30 years she has been exploring and guiding in the remote corners of the earth. In her early years she guided trips and trained teachers for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. |
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Thomas Nilsen |
| Thomas Nilsen lives in the Norwegian border town of Kirkenes near Russia’s Kola Peninsula. He is editor of BarentsObserver.com, covering Europe’s northernmost region and Arctic issues. Nilsen has been travelling extensively in northern Russia since the late 80's, working with environmental issues, nuclear safety and cross-border cooperation. He regularly lectures on security issues and socio-economic development in the Barents Region. Nilsen has also been a guide at sea and in remote locations in the Russian north for various groups. |
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Tony Crocker |
| Tony has spent many years living and travelling through the length and breadth of Europe, in the course of an extensive career in travel and tourism, including over a year spent in the High Arctic. He has a lifelong interest in ornithology and, in his native New Zealand, is acknowledged as one of the best birders. He was editor of the OSNZ magazine Southern Bird for nine years and council member for six. |
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Victoria Salem |
| Victoria has always been fascinated by the cooler places on our planet and has been travelling in Northern Europe, the Arctic and Antarctica regularly for the past 15 years. She has worked in expedition cruising for 11 seasons at both ends of the earth and some places in between, focusing on history, culture and exploration. She specialized in Old Norse literature and Viking history at undergraduate level and holds a Graduate Certificate in Antarctic studies from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. |
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Wendy Malan |
| Wendy trained as a classical ballet dancer and teacher at the University of Cape Town. After dancing professionally for eight years she taught at the same university before setting out on her own. She has run her own successful exercise studio and produced several ballets for the Cape Youth Ballet. Together with her oceanographer husband she has taken part in research cruises off the West Coast Southern Africa and travelled to some of the Earth’s more interesting places, including the Namibian Skeleton Coast, Mozambique and the Antarctic. Her first visit to the Antarctic was in 2003, aboard the SA Agulhas, supervising a group of scholars who accompanied the vessel on a relief cruise to Queen Maud Land. |
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