Cheesemans' Ecology Safaris Tour Staff
Cheesemans Ecology Safaris carefully selects leaders who are tops in their field to insure that your experience is the best it can be. We also provide a complete support staff on our larger expedtions, such as to Antarctica and the Arctic. The staff on your expedition can include some of the professionals listed below, your trip itinerary contains the staff list.
  
Tim and Pauline Carr have spent the last 14 years on South Georgia working for the South Georgia Museum, first as Custodians and then as Curators. Before becoming the sole resident human population on South Georgia, they spent 25 years circumnavigating the globe in Curlew, a 28-foot, engineless wooden sailboat, built in 1898. Arriving at South Georgia in 1992, the Carrs were inspired by this incredible island and wrote the book Antarctic Oasis in 1998. In addition to their sailing exploits around the island, they have explored inland extensively whilst camping in tents, bivouacs and snow holes. Tim and Pauline are delightful personalities, and they bring to our voyage an unparalleled intimate knowledge of this very special and remote island.
Staff for South Georgia.
 Buff Corsi is a professional videographer with lots of exprerience giving seminars on videography during over eight Antarctic expeditions. She has also produced both the ship's log and video documentary that is available to all participants. Buff pursued her lifelong interest in biology for many years at the California Academy of Sciences as head of their travel program. Always a photographer, she has come to love the creative process of video editing.
Staff for Antarctica.
 Tim Davis has been a self-employed professional photographer for more than twenty-eight years, now working in wildlife photography after spending his
formative years photographing sports, annual reports and advertising
projects. His wildlife work has appeared in diverse publications from
National and International Wildlife, Terre Sauvage, Wildlife Conservation
and BBC Wildlife to Sports Illustrated, Outside and Time. Recent animal and
wildlife advertising work includes Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Mutual
of Omaha and others. He has traveled extensively on all seven continents in
pursuit of wildlife stock images, marketed worldwide through his various
agents. He has received a top award in the BBC Wildlife Photographer of the
Year awards and was co-author of Popular Photography's Nature Column with
his wife and partner, Renee Lynn. Tim and Renee were also featured on Wild
Discovery of the Discovery Channel. See a sampling of his work on his website. He spent a month photographing an Emperor Penguin colony on the Antarctic continent. Tim has been leading Antarctic adventures with us since 1994.
Staff for South Georgia and the Arctic.
Tom Fleichner has been a Conservation Biology and Natural History professor at Prescott College in Arizona for over 20 years. He teaches a variety of courses, including Seabird Ecology and Island Biogeography, creative writing and environmental politics. His most recent field research project is a study of migratory and wintering shorebirds in the Gulf of California and his earlier field research concerned marine mammals and marine birds. He is passionate about natural history, which he points out is the earliest human endeavor. He is collaborating with colleagues to create the Natural History Network to promote the essential importance of natural history.
Staff for Antarctica.
 Dr. Art Ford retired from a career with the U.S. Geological Survey doing geological research in polar and alpine regions. He earned his PhD degree at the University of Washington (Seattle) for the first geological study of one of the active, high volcanoes of the Cascades Range of Washington state (Glacier Peak), after which he taught geology for two years at San Diego State College. In 1960 he joined the USGS to lead expeditions that explored mountains near the South Pole (Thiel Mountains). In his many years of Antarctic research he led or participated in 13 expeditions to the Pensacola Mountains; the Lassiter Coast of the southern Antarctic Peninsula; the Shackleton Range (as exchange scientist on the 22nd Soviet Antarctic Expedition, in 1977); the Black Coast of the central Antarctic Peninsula (a 1986 joint USGS-British Antarctic Survey expedition); and was a geologist on the Deep-Sea Drilling Project vessel Glomar Challenger's first explorations of Antarctic sea floors, of the Ross Sea, in 1972. His 35 years of research in Antarctica and many parts of Alaska produced nearly 200 maps and reports, including the chapter Antarctica in Encyclopedia Britannica. He was awarded the American Polar Medal and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Explorers Club, and the Geological Society of America.
Staff for Antarctica.
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Bruce Miller is a retired computer engineer who now enjoys his family, his travels, and his freelance photography business, Cooper Mountain Photography, specializing in wildlife, nature, and sports photography. Bruce is a fantastic teacher and will lecture on digital photography and Photoshop. He also enjoys working with others one on one to give photo advice and answer questions. In addition to previous Southern Ocean trips, he has accompanied us to five other international destinations, including Africa and the Neotropics.
Staff for Antarctica.
 Tom Murphy founded Wilderness Photography Expeditions in 1986, and teaches a well-known and respected photography seminar series primarily in Yellowstone National Parkon as explained on his website. Tom will teach photography sessions on ship and ashore to help you bring your wildlife photography to new levels of excellence. He is the author of several books including The Light of Spring: The Seasons of Yellowstone. He has also been featured in a PBS Nature series program, Chistmas in Yellowstone.
Staff for South Georgia.
 Rod and Marlene Planck operate a natural history photographic business. Rod has been a professional nature photographer for over twenty years, with Marlene as manager of the business. Rod's images have appeared in Audubon, Sierra, National Wildlife, Natural History, Backpacker, Birder's World, Ranger Rick and Photo Life. His images have appeared also in numerous calendars, textbooks and advertising layouts. Together, Rod and Marlene conduct a popular series of week-long workshops around the country for nature photographers of all skill levels described on their website. Rod and Marlene live in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where Rod does a lot of his spectacular photography. It is near to many of the forests, bogs, and lakeshores that Rod has photographed over the years and has come to know and love. They have been on our Antarctica staff for over ten years. In addition to Marlene and Rod's wide-ranging knowledge of natural history and photography, they bring a contagious enthusiasm for the seabirds we'll encounter on our Southern Ocean charters.
Staff for South Georgia and Antarctica.
 Craig Poore, our trip historian, is a new addition to the staff, but a
veteran of several Antarctica expeditions. He will lecture on Southern
Ocean history, including early exploration, the heroic age and the more
recent conflict in the Falklands/Malvinas. On board he'll be on deck
watching for cetaceans and heading up our conservation fund raiser. On
shore he assists with Zodiac logistics. Craig travels a lot for his
full-time job in the software industry and is an expert on packing, as well
as on Southern Ocean history. He has authored an excellent polar packing
list and (in the spirit of Amundsen) has put a lot of study into packing a
bag for Antarctica that is complete, while still being reasonably light and
manageable.
Staff for Antarctica.
 Edward Rooks is a professional wildlife artist with a keen interest in nature. He excels in helping you uncover your unknown artistic talent if you choose to join his expedition workshops. A naturalist par excellence with
an artist's eye, he teaches drawing workshops both during days at sea
and onshore. Edward has led wonderful tours for us in the past to his native Trinidad
where he grew up beside the sea.
Staff for Antarctica.
Christian Savigny works many hours with Wildlife Conservation Society, Birdlife and other NGOs on seabird conservation programs. Like Jim Danzenbaker, he is considered a "pelagic bird guru". He works as a fisheries observer and Antarctic guide. He has published many articles and is an excellent writer and bird artist, now working on two books, including his forthcoming Birds of the SW Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica. An Argentine with a lot of energy, spirit, and true pizzazz, he joined our staff in 2007 on our South Georgia charter and we are delighted to have him with us again this year.
Staff for Antarctica.
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