Expedition Team in Antarctica

Tudor studied geology at Manchester University. He formerly worked for the British Antarctic Survey, the Antarctic Heritage Trust and was operations manager at IAATO.

He has also been awarded the Queen’s Polar Medal for outstanding service to Antarctic science and heritage.

Line is Norwegian and grew up in the small settlement of Klæbu outside Trondheim. Line started working for Hurtigruten in 2001 as a crew member.

She worked on several ships on the Norwegian coast before joining MS Fram in 2008. She completed the Arctic Nature Guide study programme in 2010 in Spitsbergen

Dan holds a MSc in Ornithology. During his 30 years as a wildlife biologist with Canada’s national government, he worked on a wide variety of research and conservation activities.

He is a frequent speaker on bird photography and bird conservation topics.

Maurice Ricardo is a social anthropologist from Chile. He was director of the Martin Gusinde Anthropological Museum in Puerto Williams for 17 years and led most of the archaeological studies on islands south of Tierra del Fuego.

He is also a member of the Chilean Ornithological Society and the Omora Foundation.

Verena was born in Mexico City. She studied at the National University (UNAM) and received her PhD in Immunology from the University of Lausanne, Switzerland in 2002.

Then she worked as a research assistant at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research. She has been working as a lecturer in Antarctica on MS Fram since 2008.