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STUDENTS ON ICE | 12, ch Fosbery | Chelsea, Quebec, Canada | 866-336-6423 | www.studentsonice.com |
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Watch for this 'Armchair Expeditioners' notice throughout this website
to direct you to interesting additional information about Antarctica!
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THE STUDENTS ON ICE
EDUCATION TEAM
Education and interpretation are key elements of the expedition. Students on Ice Expeditions has assembled an international team of scientists and polar experts, whose experience and enthusiasm ensures that students come away with a deeper understanding and appreciation of the Polar Regions. Expert polar naturalists, historians, and earth scientists will make this expedition an unforgettable adventure!
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GEOFF GREEN
Expedition Leader and SOI Founder
Canadian adventurer, environmentalist and educator Geoff Green has been leading expeditions and adventures from pole to pole for the past fifteen years. Many notable organizations such as the Discovery Channel, World Wildlife Fund, National Audubon and the Smithsonian Institution enlist Geoff to lead their groups into the world’s most remote and exciting regions.
In 2005, he received a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from the U.S. Congress for his work with youth and the environment. He was also voted one of Canada’s "Top 40 under 40" - an annual national prize event saluting Canada's top young leaders. In 2004, Outpost Magazine chose Geoff as one of the “Top 5 Canadian Explorers” to watch.
Geoff is the founder and Executive Director of Students on Ice Expeditions (studentsonice.com) an award-winning educational organization based in Chelsea, Quebec. The program – now in its eighth year – has taken almost 600 students, teachers and scientists from around the world on expeditions to both the Arctic and the Antarctic. The goal of this unique project is to give the world’s youth a heightened understanding and respect for the planet’s global ecosystem, and the inspiration to protect it.
As expedition leader, Geoff is a veteran of 66 Antarctic expeditions and 27 Arctic expeditions. To read Geoff's full biography click here. |
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OLLE CARLSSON
Polar Naturalist and Lecturer
Born and raised in Sweden, Olle was formerly a teacher and professional jazz musican before embarking on a life of polar adventure, writing, photography, and lecturing. For over twenty years now, Olle has been sharing the migration route of the Arctic tern - Arctic adventures in the summer, and Antarctic adventures in the winter.
His Arctic expeditions include many voyages to the North Pole, Northwest Passage, Svalbard, Iceland, and Greenland. However, his favourite world region is Antarctica, and he has been leading expeditions and lecturing about it every years since 1991.
His facination in the Polar world is grounded on the integrity and beauty of these remote places, as well as the astounding adaptations for survival under harsh conditions that the wildlife has suffered. Our need for places largely unaffected by humans will not decrease, and it goes without saying that they promote a deep engagement in environmental questions.
With his colleague, Stefan Lungren, Olle has co-authored several books about Poles, including the award-winning "Antarctica - In the Interest of All Mankind" and the popular "Antarctic - A Souvenir Book for the 7th. Continent." Olle lives in Sweden and still practices Jazz!
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LISA (Diz) Glithero
SOI Education Director & Environmental Educator
Lisa (Diz) Glithero is a committed environmental educator whose formal teaching experience has taken her from Chhomrong, Nepal to the Heiltsuk community of Bella, British Columbia to working as the Education Director for Students on Ice.
In 2004, after completing a Master of Education degree at Queen's University while working for the Outdoor Experiential Education program at the faculty, Diz founded the EYES Project. EYES - an initiative to build public awareness for the need to bring more enivronmental and sustainable education ideologies into mainstream schooling policy and practice.
In March 2006, Diz was 1 of 24 international women to be awarded the "Women of the Earth Award" for her work in environmental education. She is currently a Professor with the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa.
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SCOBIE PYE
Antarctic Scientist and Historian
Scobie Pye is a research scientist with a Master of Science degree awarded by the University of Tasmania, Australia. Over the past 30 years much of his life has been spent in southern latitudes working with the British Antarctic Survey (B.A.S.), the Australian Antarctic Division and the University of Tasmania. He has spent four winters and seven summers on the Sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, two summers on the floating ice shelf station of Halley Bay in the Weddell Sea and two winters and nine summers on Australia's Macquarie Island. Scobie's main scientific interests are focused on the conservation and management of the Sub-Antarctic Islands, the impact of introduced mammals on these fragile ecosystems, sustainable tourism in the Antarctic and conservation of the region. In 1978, Scobie was awarded the Fuchs Medal for outstanding service to the British Antarctic Survey.
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ERIC GALBRAITH
Oceanographer
A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Eric is passionate about Earth Science: why our planet appears the way it does, and the story of how it got that way. He worked as a geologist in South America and the Canadian Arctic, and had visited all seven continents by the age of 25. He then turned to the sea, pursuing a PhD in oceanography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. His research looks at how global ocean circulation interacts with the rest of the climate system, what this means for marine life, and how the ocean will respond to future climate change. He has worked as a lecturer aboard cruises throughout the North Atlantic, and in both the Arctic and the Antarctic. Although currently residing in Montreal, he has recently accepted a position as researcher at Princeton University.
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WILLIAM (BILL) LISHMAN
Artist, Inventor & Naturalist
William Lishman is a versatile artist of world renown. His works over the past Three decades include two award winning films and numerous works of public art, which include an 86-foot high central theme Sculpture for Expo ‘86 in Vancouver and a 2700 square foot 21st century earth integrated dome home. He and seven pieces of his sculpture star in the acclaimed 3D IMAX film the ‘Last Buffalo.’
It was one of the pioneers of ultralight flight in Canada and in 1988 became the first human to lead birds in formation. In 1993 he led the first experimental ‘migration’ of geese from Ontario to Virginia, which was documented by ABC's 20/20.
Bill's autobiography was published and released by Crown Publishers and made number four on the bestseller list in Canada. Loosely based on Bill’s life Columbia Pictures produced the hit feature film Fly Away Home released in the fall of 1996
Bill has received numerous awards including the Odyssey of the Mind's prestigious Creativity Award, which he shares, with the likes of Walt Disney, Chuck Jones and NASA as well as Canadian Pilots and Owners Association’s highest award in general aviation. In September of 2000 Canadian Governor General Adrienne Clarkson bestowed the Meritorious Service Medal on Bill for his work with birds and bringing Honour to Canada.
Over the past decade, while continuing his work as a Sculptor Bill has presided over the ‘Operation Migration’ organization he co-founded to carry out research in ultralight led bird Migration. The Operation Migration team is currently working with the US Fish And Wild Life Service and several other organizations to restore a flock of Migratory Whooping Cranes to eastern North America. |
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SANTIAGO IMBERTI
Ornithologist
An ornithologist, photographer and writer, Santiago was born and raised in southern Patagonia, Argentina, which meant that wilderness was only a short step from his front door.
He obtained a degree in tourism and later in ornithology, which allowed him to combine his love for nature and the outdoors with his work as a bird watcher, naturalist, fly fisher and mountain guide. During the off-season Santiago continues his ornithology research, focusing his attention on birds of southern Patagonia and Antarctica. He is studying the rediscovered Austral Rail, the biology of the Chilean Swallow, a new method of parent - chick recognition among penguins and is also searching the winter grounds of the Patagonian endemic Hooded Grebe.
Marine mammals are another of his interests and he has worked as a field assistant studying Killer Whales and Chilean Dolphins among others.
Antarctica has always been of great interest, and this will be his sixth season there. In order to help people understand nature, he works as an interpretive guide and also helps schools science projects in an attempt to interest children in nature.
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JOHANNES KOCH
Earth Sciences
Dr. Johannes Koch completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Earth Sciences at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada in spring 2006. His research focus is the effects of climate change on alpine environments, especially glaciers and treelines. He has worked in remote areas in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, the St. Elias Mountains in the Yukon, Canada, and the southernmost Patagonian Andes, Chile for the past 7 years.
An important component of his research is public outreach and education. He has given talks to the general public, and has published and has been featured in articles in newspapers and magazines.
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"What has this trip meant to me . well, I don't think that words can do it justice, but I will say that I am much more confident in who I am becoming. It is so nice to see so many youth get together with such passion and fire. I will remember ICE & ICE!! They say a picture paints a thousand words, but I still can't paint Antarctica."
2004 Antarctic Expeditioner
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