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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Stephen Jones
Steve has hard-won leadership experience in high-risk environments and is an expert on expedition planning, safety management, and polar expeditions.
Roger Alcock
Roger’s career combines UK Emergency Medicine practice, humanitarian Global Emergency Care and medical care in austere environments with expedition, TV, film and ultramarathon medical support experience in all 7 continents.
Rachel Carr
Rachel is a Professor in Glaciology at Newcastle University, whose research and teaching focus on the response of glacier to climate change, in the Himalaya and the Arctic.
Martin Hartley
Over the past two decades, Martin has covered over 2,000 miles, living for over 400 days on the skin of the Arctic Ocean on multiple long range expeditions.
Kate Retallick
Kate is a Royal Navy Officer and hydrographic surveyor recently employed on operations in Antarctica to update navigational charts. She has undertaken multiple polar ski expeditions including crossing Greenland.
Helen Turton
Helen has visited both the North and South Poles and crossed Greenland on skis on several occasions.
Claire Grogan
Claire is an emergency medicine doctor with a passion for expedition and remote medicine.
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