Sentences with phrase «as expedition leader»

On the same ship a few years earlier, as expedition leader Howard Whelan recounted to me, «We traveled more than 1,000 miles out of our way to pick up scientists from a research station who otherwise would have overwintered a second year.

We talked about Franklin, and Koerner noted research he'd done showing that Franklin was about as unlucky as any expedition leader could be, having headed out in 1845, the midpoint of what appeared to be one of the coldest decades in what was probably the coldest century in many millenniums.

Ralph Lee Hopkins is a popular photo instructor and geologist who also serves as an expedition leader aboard the National Geographic fleet.

As expedition leader of the Ocean Princess, I already knew that the company chartering the Northern Ranger was not a member of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators, despite being invited to join.

Not exact matches

As the firm celebrates its 25th anniversary this month, it's become a global leader in its space, with more than 2,000 employees selling and operating tours, safaris and expeditions around the world.

For the past decade, Ralph Harvey has served as ANSMET's principal investigator and leader of its expedition team.

The leaders of the 10 May commercial expeditions were vague and contradictory about a turnaround time, and many clients and guides were still struggling to reach the Everest summit late in the afternoon, even as clouds began to envelop the mountain.

The team consists mostly of strangers, including the leaders of the expedition, Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) and Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal), as well as Texan Beck Weathers (Josh Brolin), Doug Hanson (John Hawkes) and more.

It's a theory that the other underwritten members of the expedition, including Anya, Dr. Ventress (Jennifer Jason Leigh), de facto team leader and psychologist, Josie Radek (Tessa Thompson), a surveyor, and Cass Sheppard (Tuva Novotny), an anthropologist, don't necessarily reject as much as ignore given the life - or - death struggle they face from the Shimmer's predatory inhabitants.

In steps the Admiral, the true leader of the expedition in the New World, who has been sitting on the sidelines watching your team as well as studying Nergigante, who he believes is connected to all this.

As if that were not enough appeal, I would be both tour leader and personal docent, making the expedition a truly value - added opportunity.

James Swanson masterfully weaves together the stories of two fallen leaders as they made their last expeditions through the bloody landscape of a wounded nation.

The psychologist, who was older than the rest of us, served as the expedition's leader.

For National Geographic Active Expeditions, the cost includes meals, accommodations, and excursions as indicated in the itinerary; services of a trip leader and local guides; ground transportation; some transfers; gratuities (unless otherwise noted in the itinerary); and pre-trip materials.

Nowhere is the keen eye and intimate knowledge of our Expedition Leaders more imperative to a nature adventure than amid this fantastic biodiversity, as we explore remote natural realms rich in wildlife and wonder.

Learn more about the area as explained by Tierney Thys, National Geographic Expedition Leader, Marine Biologist and Filmmaker.

Baker has been a consultant to such travel industry leaders as Backroads, Mountain Travel - Sobek, and National Geographic Expeditions, as well as for major international corporations such as Intel.

* Corrected, Sept. 25, 2016 A reader of my print story noticed an error that I propagated here, as well — referring to Lord Franklin when in fact the leader of the 1845 expedition was Sir John Franklin — knighted in 1829 but never a lord.

There are as many different stories as scientists on this ship and in the middle of it all is the leader of the expedition, marine biologist Antje Boetius.