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Our team is the key to your incredible adventure
Explore the Arctic in the company of top experts. Benefit from their expertise—marine and terrestrial biology, botany, geology, and more—and benefit from their passion to share the wonder of this incredible region. Enjoy their company; you’ll find our Arctic tour guides highly engaging and fun to share a drink or dinner with, as well as a hike.
Naturalist/Certified Photo Instructor
Michael Nolan was born in Bitburg, Germany to an Air Force family stationed there. His first experience of the ocean came at age 12, when he learned to snorkel in the Italian Mediterranean. At age 17 he moved to Tucson, Arizona and became a PADI SCUBA instructor, before starting a SCUBA diving business that specialized in diving trips to the Sea of Cortez.
National Geographic Photographer
National Geographic photographer Ralph Lee Hopkins is the founder and
director of the Expedition Photography program for the Lindblad-National
Geographic alliance. For more than 20 years he has lead expeditions from the Arctic to Antarctica and points in between.