Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship 

This year twenty-five educators were chosen from across the United States and Canada for a one-of-a-kind professional development opportunity.  The program, a joint partnership between Lindblad Expeditions and National Geographic, has Fellows travelling to a variety of locations including the Arctic Svalbard, Greenland, Iceland, the Canadian Maritimes and Antarctica.  Through direct, hands-on field experience, we will enhance our geographical knowledge, which we can then bring back to our classrooms and communities.  Through hiking, kayaking, and Zodiac excursions we will experience firsthand the landscapes, wildlife and cultures unique to these parts of the world, including glaciers, sea life and penguins.  An expert Lindblad-National Geographic expedition team, including Lindblad naturalists, a National Geographic photographer and an undersea specialists, will support our learning and creation of resources.  

You can read the press release regarding my selection here. 

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I have been chosen as one of five Fellows who will be travelling to Antarctica this coming December 2014.  Along with two other teachers, I will journey across the legendary Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula.  Our time on the Peninsula is flexible, being dictated
 by nature and what it chooses to present to us.  From 40-ton whales, to massive penguin colonies, to glaciers calving, we are hoping to experience it all! While the Southern 
summer solstice means that we have twenty-four hours of daylight, our evenings will 
consist of learning from Global Issues Speaker, Edmund Stump, or reviewing dive footage taken that day by the Undersea Specialist.  

I also have had the additional fortune of receiving an international grant from my local teacher's union in order to spend four days on Easter Island directly following my expedition.  Through Lindblad, I will have the opportunity to learn from key archeologists Edmundo Edwards and Claudio Cristino who have helped to uncover Moai stone statues.