Speakers
Speakers and workshop leaders will share tales from their recent expeditions, while Society staff will be available to provide personalised advice and guidance on your own future field projects and expeditions.
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Leonidas Romanos Davranoglou
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow.
Ricardo Rocha
Ricardo is an ecologist and explorer who is an Associate Professor in Conservation Science at Oxford University. His work is rooted in ecological theory and involves biodiversity surveys across large-scale experiments, real world working landscapes and island ecosystems.
Zoe Salt
Zoe is a photographer based in London. Last year she was part of the High Level Route expedition in the Alps.
Will Close-Ash
Will runs Mountain Energy with his wife, Naomi.
Tony Foster
Travelling slowly, on foot or by canoe or raft, and carrying his painting and camping equipment he makes his paintings in response to what he finds on his journeys.
Tim Jacob
Tim designs education and outreach programmes at Reach the World, a global education non-profit that uses virtual exchange to connect field scientists and explorers with K-12 classrooms.
Thomas Starnes
Thom is Key Biodiversity Areas Programme Officer with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in Cambridge.
Suresh Paul
Suresh is founder of Equal Adventure, that delivers inclusion training and creates enabling adventure expedition and sports equipment.
Stephen Jones
Steve has hard-won leadership experience in high-risk environments and is an expert on expedition planning, safety management, and polar expeditions.
Spike Reid
Spike is an international mountain leader, photographer and experienced in diving, climbing, fell-running and sailing.
Shane Winser
Shane convenes Explore and provides advice, information and training to some 1,500 plus scientific, educational, and adventurous expeditions each year.
Sean Lovell
Sean is an award-winning British documentary Filmmaker who likes to make creative films about the environment, social causes and local communities.
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