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Raymond Arvidson
Planetary Scientist, Geologist & Astronomer
James S McDonnell University Professor Emeritus |
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Saint Louis, Missouri USA |
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| Raymond Arvidson received a Ph.D. from Brown University in 1974. He is presently the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis. During his 48 year teaching and research career he focused on understanding current and past environments on the Earth, Mars, and Venus, and has participated in a dozen robotic missions to Venus and Mars. Arvidson is a regular speaker with various cruise lines and lectures on planetary geology and astronomy, local and global geology, climate change, oceans, and how study of other planets fits into a better understanding of the Earth. |
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David Baker
Aerospace/Aviation/Military History & Espionage
IAA, FBIS, FRHistS |
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Brede, Nr. Rye, East Sussex UK |
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| British born, Dr David Baker has had a lifelong involvement with the NASA space programme, helping send men to the Moon in the 1960's, working to develop the re-usable Shuttle in the 1970's, helping countries around the world use space applications in their everyday lives during the 1980's, advising on space policy during the 1990's and lecturer and historian in the new century. An award-winning author David has written more than 100 books, academic and popular, on many aspects of science, aviation, space, defence and astronomy and the development of the technologies and the politics that underpinned the Cold War. |
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Melvyn Bowen
Maritime History & Marine Science
Extra-Master Mariner, MPhil., PhD. |
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Rotorua, NZ |
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| Melvyn was born and raised in U.K., and completed his secondary education at the Haverfordwest Grammar School in Pembrokeshire. He commenced a career in the British Merchant Navy and after 10 years became a qualified Master Mariner before studying Nautical Sciences at the University of Wales. Following this, he went on to lecture in a range of maritime-science disciplines at several Universities and Polytechnics. He now lives in New Zealand and regularly talks about Maritime History on cruise ships. |
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Christine Clayburg
Environment | Weather | Climate | Aviation | Screenwriting
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Santa Monica, California USA |
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| Christine Clayburg flew with the Minnesota Air National Guard as a Loadmaster on the C-130H aircraft. She was promoted to Tactical Airlift Control Flight Instructor and Aerial Firefighter on the C-130J with the Channel Islands Air Guard north of Malibu and deployed with both units to Iraq and Afghanistan. She is an Emmy-nominated meteorologist and an award-winning screenwriter, director, series host and producer of film and television. |
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Julian Dowdeswell
Environmental & Earth Sciences, Glaciers & Polar Exploration
PhD, ScD, Polar Medal from HM The Queen |
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Bristol, North Somerset UK |
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| Professor Julian Dowdeswell is recently retired professor of Physical Geography and Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge. In a career of over 40 years he has taught in the universities of Aberystwyth, Bristol and Cambridge. He has written more than 400 scientific papers and 11 books. Since retirement, Julian, and his wife Evelyn, have travelled on cruise ships in both polar regions, the Mediterranean, Norway and US/Canadian waters giving guest lectures on a wide variety of environmental science topics, and, in the Arctic and Antarctic, on glaciers and ice sheets, polar exploration and polar art. |
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Dr Joseph Golden
Enrichment Speaker
Expert on Waterspouts and Tornadoes |
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Boulder, CO USA |
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| Dr. Joe Golden served NOAA (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) in a number of progressively more responsible positions during his 42.5 years of Federal service. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, and his biography has appeared in the last ten consecutive editions of Who’s Who in America and recent Who’s Who in the World. Dr. Golden is a world-renowned expert on waterspouts, tornadoes and hurricanes, and has often been interviewed on live national network television news broadcasts, including Ted Koppel on "NIGHTLINE." |
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| Charlie’s field of expertise covers Hurricanes, Severe Weather, Oceans and Beaches, Climate Change, the late 1800’s Alaskan Gold Rush, Forensic Meteorology, Weather in Art, and Charlie’s Antarctica experiences. As a storyteller, Charlie turns complex topics into easily understood concepts using clear language and bold graphics, while teaching the audience why the concepts are important. |
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Harry M Strong
Ocean science & Meteorology
BS, MS, MPA, PSIA |
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Oak Hill, Fairfax USA |
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| Harry M Strong worked for a nonprofit corporation for 38 years, spending the last 15 years supporting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, D.C., addressing a broad range of environmental issues. He is the President of HMS Consulting, LLC, has been a special interest speaker and visiting scientist on numerous cruise ships, speaking on “Our One Ocean”. This series of talks is crafted to entertain, inform and educate the ship’s guests on various ocean topics, emphasizing that our “global society” has but “One Ocean” and we all share in its fruits, its opportunities, its problems, its heritage and its potential. |
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Peter Varley
Meteorology & Oceanography
FRMetS CMet |
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Gosport, Hampshire UK |
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| After gaining a degree in Physical Oceanography, Commander Varley spent three years undertaking research in underwater acoustics before joining the Royal Navy as an Instructor Officer specialising in meteorology and oceanography. Peter has forecast the weather onboard ships in the Norwegian Sea, the Mediterranean and the North and South Atlantic oceans. In 1995, Peter left the Royal Navy to run his own meteorological, oceanographic and training consultancy. |
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