Our Expedition Team - Lindblad Expeditions

And it’s not just us saying it. The comment cards that we collect from our guests after each expedition consistently express the same message: “the expedition staff made the trip.” Our Expedition Leaders, outstanding Naturalists, Marine Biologists, Photographers and Undersea Specialists collectively have thousands of years of experience guiding travelers to the most interesting places in the world. They are the ones who write the books, they are the locals; they are the experts that knowledgeable explorers want to travel with again and again. They are the best in their fields. Read more and see why our staff inspires such passion.

Highlighted Staff

FERNANDO SANCHEZ

Naturalist

Fernando Sanchez was born in Quito, Ecuador in 1981. He completed his schooling in Quito and then moved to the Galapagos. The Islands have always been a magical place for him since his grandparents have lived on San Cristobal Island for over 37 years. Fernando remembers when he was a child spending every vacation visiting his family and exploring the environment full of unique flora and fauna.Read more

RICHARD WHITE

Naturalist

Richard was born and grew up near Portsmouth on the south coast of England. An avid birder from an early age, he soon developed an interest in other areas of natural history, although birds remain his primary interest.Read more

ROBERTO MEDINA

Naturalist

Roberto Medina has always been a nature lover. He studied Tourism Business Administration; however his heart has always been with nature. Through the years, Roberto has developed a passion for everything that has to do with the biodiversity of his country. That is why he has been traveling continuously all over Panama in order to understand, learn and expand his expertise in birding and guiding.Read more

BILL PATTERSON

Naturalist

Bill is an isotope biogeochemistry professor and director of the Saskatchewan Isotope Laboratory, with field experience on all seven continents, and in many of the World's marine and lacustrine environments. Bill's research interests include global carbon cycling, fish behavior, bat, penguin, and woolly mammoth ecology, tree physiology, meteorology, climate change, evolution and extinction, marine and freshwater chemistry, archaeology, history, anthropology, cave environments, etc. As a grad student, Bill pioneered the use of microsampled fish otoliths for life-history and climate reconstruction.Read more

KENNETH MONSEN

Naturalist

Kenneth grew up on the westcoast of Norway, and soon developed an interest for arctic areas. He is educated in spatial planning, but has worked for a number of years in Svalbard as a guide with a dogsled. He also overwintered with his wife as a trapper on Svalbard for one year. Now Kenneth lives in the mountains in southern Norway, where he works with spatial-planning in a local community. He still keeps an interest in dog sledging, and keeps 10 Alaska Huskies for use during the long winter. Kenneth joined Lindblad in 2004, and has been traveling with Endeavour along the Norwegian coast and on Svalbard.Read more