natalie@gomexpedition.org
Coastal Community Development Extension Associate with Maine Sea Grant ~ President, Maine Association
of Sea Kayak Guides and Instructors ~ experienced expedition leader: 850
miles around Nova Scotia in 1996 ~ extensive multi-day trips throughout
the North Atlantic ~ registered Maine Sea Kayak and Recreational Guide
since 1991 ~ Contributing Editor: Paddler Magazine and Shunpiking Magazine,
Nova Scotia's Discovery Magazine ~ Maine Island Trail Association advisory
committee member ~ Maine Coast Seminar coordinator ~ Wilderness First
Responder ~ worked on board establishing sea kayak guide licensing in
1995/1996 and revising guide licensing in 2000 ~ MS. Environmental Communications,
B.A. Human Ecology
rich@gomexpedition.org
Former Science staff, The Nature Conservancy ~ Adjunct Faculty, State
University of New York's Adirondack Experience Program ~ 30 years paddling
experience ~ licensed New York State Guide since 1987 ~ author of the
soon-to-be-released A Paddler's Guide to Lake Champlain ~ extensive experience
kayaking Lake Champlain and the inland waters of New York State, as well
as several trips a year exploring the Maine coast ~ self-taught and self-proclaimed
computer and technology geek ~ ornithologist ~ writer ~ regular contributor
to Adirondack Life and Adirondack Sports & Fitness ~ B.S. General
Biology ~ long-time back-country skier with numerous first descents
chebogue@klis.com
Retired Professor of Landscape Architecture and design consultant with
sustainable design and permaculture focus - permanent resident of Canada
living in a restored 1860's residence in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - active
in Tusket River Environmental Protection Association and Gulf of Maine
Institute Without Walls educational program - 50 years of paddling and
outdoor experience with 10 years of sea kayaking - extended sea kayak
trips in Georgian Bay (Canada), Maine Island Trail, Georgian and Floridian
coasts - B.S./M.L.A. in Landscape Architecture, Ph.D. in Marine Sciences
(coastal zone management focus) - avid reader - dabbler in watercolor
and harmonica playing
chebogue@klis.com
Experienced Canadian outdoor educator - paddler - globe trotter (recent
trips include Scotland, Africa, Thailand, Nepal, and Tibet where her adventures
included climbing Mount Kilimanjaro and hiking to Everest Base Camp) -
kayaking experiences include Greenland, Scotland, Maine, Great Lakes,
and coastal Florida - avid caver with trips to Hungary, Wales, New Mexico,
and West Virginia - retired high school teacher - recently married to
Dan Earle with whom she shares environmental interests, a double kayak,
and a sustainable life style - darn good photographer and beginning piano
player.
tteller@earthlink.net
Tom is Volunteer-Of-The-Year! After he attended one of our Coast Guard
partnership meetings, we invited him to join our team . . . And he has
done the work of three paddlers since! Thank you ever so much, Tom! Professor
of Aeronautics at Daniel Webster College in New Hampshire, Tom is a Renaissance
Man with degrees in both Aero and human factors engineering, as well as
theology. He fills a needed role as Mass. EMTB and Wilderness EMT. An
“aging Boy Scout” and scout leader for more than ten years, he is the
2nd of three generations of Eagle Scouts. Using Tom’s words, he is an
“avid outdoors enthusiast for a loonnnnng time” and member of the 3M Club
(Tom and friends made it up – to join requires 1,000 nights camping and
1,000 miles backpacking, and 1,000 paddling, all in the wilderness). Tom
has led numerous paddling expeditions on Northeastern wilderness Rivers
and will add the Dumoine in southern Québec before joining our Expedition
this summer. Tom has been married for over 30 years to an incredibly patient
woman who lets him go off on expeditions such as ours . . . thanks Emily!
Tom is also father to two, grown boys who are “very patient with both
parents.”
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