Who are the Inuit People?
Posted in Schools, Education 4 days ago

Over the past four years I have been visiting the same communities on Baffin Island and getting to know the Inuit people who live there. The Inuit are a warm and friendly people with large extended families who have strong sense of community. Hunting is an occupation and a cultural way of life for the people. For Key Stage 1 – 4

Glaciers Explained for Schools
Posted in Education, Schools 4 days ago

Some short videos of Baffin Islands 2009 Summer Expedition. Louise Biddle who is studying Earth Science at Oxford University talks about glaciers and their features for geography students. These video’s are free to be used within schools. For Kay Stage 3 – 4

Our Baffin Island 2010 School Outreach Work
Posted in Education, Schools 43 days ago

“Throughout the school educational programme I have witnessed the students being inspired to learn; they have not only enjoyed learning about Baffin Island, the expedition, the Inuit’s, the animals, the plants and way of life but it helped facilitate their questioning of climate change, and how our way of life may affect others on this Earth.” Rachel Tate

Graduate Internship Opportunity
Posted in Education, Articles 61 days ago

Following the launch of my non-profit outreach company Education Through Expeditions we now have an exciting opportunity to take on a Web Researcher/Content Developer starting the end July. Although this is currently a 8 week internship there is the possibility of a full time position after completion.

The only participant for education from the UK at the International Polar Year Conference in Oslo
Posted in Education, Media 64 days ago

I was selected as the UK’s only participant to the IPY teachers conference, to discuss ways of bringing polar science into the classroom. I joined 150 teachers and educators from around the world and 2,500 researchers and scientists for this week long conference in Oslo – Norway.

Fantastic resource for school teachers from the IPY
Posted in Education, Schools 70 days ago

The Polar Resource Book – Polar Science and Global Climate: An International Resource for Education and Outreach – was created to ensure efforts catalyzed by the International Polar Year (IPY) will continue to inspire educators, students, and emerging polar researchers into the next generation of young, international, polar researchers with a shared commitment to outreach and education.

Graduate Internship Oppotunity
Posted in Articles, Education 149 days ago

Following the launch of my non-profit outreach company Education Through Expeditions we now have an exciting opportunity to take on a Marketing Assistant starting immediately. Although this is currently a 8 week internship there is the possibility of a full time position after completion.

My Mission Statement
Posted in Articles, Education 195 days ago

My aim is simple. It is to inspire and educate children globally about world climate change and to do so through my interactive expeditions and related school outreach work. My focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on the arctic regions, its Inuit people, its animals and landscape.

Winter Baffin Island 2009 Showing on BBC
Posted in Media, Education 276 days ago

All Our Futures 2 Conference
Posted in Education, Events 365 days ago

My talk will focus on my school out reach project, “Education through Expedition”. I use expeditions to report credible eye witness account of the world around use directly into the classroom. I employ the technology so that students as young as 5 years old can ask questions directly to my satellite phone, I can then reply via sending blog and pictures back through to the classroom via my website. This helps make the classroom and fun and inspirational learning environment. My past 3 year project has been focusing on the Inuit people on Baffin Island, my solo winter arctic expeditions and my summer projects where I take students out on arctic fieldwork trips. My message is simple;

“The future of the human race depends on educating our next generations on environmental awareness” and “Dare to dream, believe and you will succeed”

Crossing Greenland - 19th April 2009
Posted in Education, Schools 509 days ago

Well it is now just a few days until I depart again and head out once more to the Arctic. This time I am part of a team skiing 550 km across the massive Greenlandic Ice Cap. I am currently living in a building site and getting ready for the next expedition is no easy task but one you have to laugh at. My kitchen is un-usable as the ceiling is being taken down so its back to cooking on a stove, just like being on expedition.