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

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

FAUSTO RODRIGUEZ

Naturalist

Fausto was born and raised in the countryside in the Central Andes, south of Quito. This gave him a tremendous opportunity to grow up side by side with nature, to learn and appreciate everything about it.Read more

STEPHANIE MARTIN

Expedition Leader

Stephanie is a marine mammal scientist who began her career studying finback and humpback whales from a small isolated lighthouse island off the coast of Bar Harbor, Maine. She has a B.A. in Human Ecology from College of the Atlantic and a Masters in Marine Policy from the University of Rhode Island. She has also worked on various marine mammal projects ranging from collecting small skin samples using a crossbow to spending countless hours in small planes during aerial surveys. She was part of the North Atlantic Right Whale project studying one of the most endangered large whales.Read more

RAGNAR HAUKSSON

Naturalist

Ragnar is a native of Iceland. He graduated from the University of Iceland in 1981 with Icelandic studies as his main subject and German as by-subject. He speaks English, German, Danish, and Swedish fluently in addition to his mother tongue of Icelandic. Since graduating from the Iceland Tourist School 1988, Ragnar has had extensive experience as a guide leading tours of various natures throughout his homeland. In the past eighteen years, he has been to almost every corner of his country and is intimately familiar with the sights, sounds, colors, and smells of Iceland. Read more