Always Someone Interesting to Meet

Our connection to the world’s wild places through conservation and personal relationships in far-flung locations has deep roots. For many guests that’s a compelling reason to choose to explore the planet with us. But there’s more: things are often extra interesting aboard our ships.

For example, in Galápagos, we’ve recently signed an agreement with the National Park, formalising Lindblad-National Geographic ships as platforms of opportunity for science in Galápagos, facilitating research and advancing the training of young local scientists. We’ve been doing this sort of thing worldwide for decades—helping researchers, like James Balog of the Extreme Ice Survey study glacier retreat, and scientists, like John Durban and Holly Fearnbach, conduct research on the health of whales in Antarctica. And through citizen science observations, our naturalists, undersea specialists, and often guests, contribute to science’s knowledge of whales, mantas, and the polar underseas.

We’ve always given National Geographic Explorers, National Geographic grantees, and other fascinating individuals ‘rides’ to field sites. And through the Grosvenor Teacher Fellowship, a professional development opportunity for pre-K–12 educators made possible by the Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic Society partnership, we bring teachers out into the world and inspire them to bring the world back to their classrooms—with far-reaching effects (see page 77 for an example). Then, there are our Global Perspective Guest Speakers and others, who come aboard to share their knowledge and insights, as well as the adventure, with our guests.

This is a real boon for you—the prospect of not only exploring charismatic geographies, but also of meeting genuinely interesting people aboard our ships.