Meet the staff

The backbone of Biosphere Expeditions

Biosphere Expeditions employs a global team of wildlife professionals who all contribute to the success of the organisation: expedition leaders, scientists, field-based and administrative staff. Their roles are as diverse as their backgrounds, but they all share a love of the outdoors and wildlife.

Here are just two of our team. More can be found at www.biosphere-expeditions.org/staff.

Paul Franklin was born in Oxford and studied zoology at Swansea University. His Masters Degree was based on research of the migratory behaviour and ecology of amphibians. After graduation, Paul spent a year working as a naturalist guide in the Peruvian Amazon. There, among other things, he was bitten by the travel bug. Since then he has led many expeditions and treks to far-flung corners of the globe. Travels overseas have been interspersed with time spent in the UK working, among other things, as a Nature Reserve Warden and Environmental Consultant. Never far from a camera, many of his wildlife and travel images have been published in magazines and books. When not travelling on foot through the world's wild places, his preferred modes of transport are a kayak, mountain bike or occasionally a horse.

Andrea Friebe was born in Germany and studied biology at the Goethe University in Frankfurt. She has worked in the Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project (SBBRP) since 1998 and wrote her master thesis and dissertation about brown bear hibernation and ecology in Sweden. In 2001 she founded the company Björn & Vildmark, which is an interface between bear research and information for the public and for managers. Andrea is the SBBRPS researcher responsible for all den descriptions and also its appointed field technician.