RGS Explore Weekend speakers and facilitators
Meet the world-leading experts who generously share insights and advice from their deep involvement in geographical exploration.
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Callum Munday
Callum is a climate scientist at the School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford. His research focuses on African and tropical climate dynamics and climate change.
Catherine Souch
Catherine is Head of Research and Higher Education at the Society.
Dr Lawrence Ball
Dr Lawrence Ball is a conservation scientist with 20 years’ experience in research and practice, in the UK and overseas.
Dr Thomas Smith
Tom is a geographer and environmental scientist, specialising in interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the interaction between humans and wildfires in the Earth system.
Dusan Materic
Dusan Materic is the Head of the Microplastics, Nanoplastics and Elements Research Group at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig.
Heidi Sevestre
Heïdi is a glaciologist, member of the AMAP Secretariat, the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme, one of the Working Groups to the Arctic Council.
Isla Myers-Smith
Isla is a global change ecologist, she studies plants in the Arctic and beyond and how ecosystems are responding to climate change.
James Chapman
James Chapman is the co-founder of Project Amu Darya, a documentary and environmental education initiative focusing on the ongoing impact of the Aral Sea Crisis in Uzbekistan, and working to promote environmental opportunities for youth in the Aral Sea region.
Jan Mertens
Jan is an entomologist, joins expeditions in his spare time to help protect the natural environment, and has a keen interest in Afrotropical butterflies.
Julia Tavares
Julia Tavares is a Brazilian ecologist interested in tropical forest ecology, with emphasis in plant ecophysiology and tropical ecosystems sensitivity/resilience to environmental change.
Konstantis Alexopoulos
Konstantis Alexopoulos is a conservationist, a mountain climate scientist, and a National Geographic Explorer from Greece.
Merlijn Jocque
Merlijn is an ecologist specialised in biodiversity assessment with a keen interest in exploring tropical and remote pristine ecosystems and is associated with the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) and chairman and founder of Biodiversity Inventory for Conservation (BINCO) NPO.
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