Viking Cruises

AUT UM N 2020 | VIKINGCRUISES.CO.UK 33 D I S C O V E R Y Clockwise, from far left: Resident Scientists are on hand to chat with guests; floating amongst the icebergs; Karine Hagen in Svalbard; the expedition central studio; Chairman of Viking Torstein Hagen and Jørn Henriksen, Viking's Director of Expedition Operation; RIB trips offer guests the chance to participate in research work Scientific Partnerships SCIENTIFIC PARTNERSHIPS Our lead partner is the University of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, whose scientists will undertake fieldwork on board Viking expedition vessels. is relationship is underpinned by a major Viking endowment for scientific research of the polar regions, e Viking Chair of Polar Marine Geoscience, a Cambridge University full professorship based at the Scott Polar Research Institute, as well as a sponsorship fund supporting the Institute's graduate students. We have also partnered up with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a globally recognised bird research facility. eir ornithologists will regularly be on board, field testing and collecting data for the observation database (eBird.com). Our onboard expedition programme is designed to prepare guests for their onshore experiences, with over 25 experts accompanying each journey – our Viking Expedition Team (expedition leader and staff, photographer and submarine pilots) and Viking Resident Scientists (biologists, botanists, geologists, glaciologists, oceanographers, ornithologists, polar experts and researchers) from our partnerships. OUR EXCURSIONS To make the most of your Viking expedition and maximise your discoveries, there is a range of excursions on offer. Offering incredible views of remote landscapes and remarkable wildlife up close, these opportunities are led by our fantastic team of highly skilled experts with a background of operating in rugged and polar environments. Included experiences include hiking through the majestic landscape of northern Norway, taking a zodiac to land on Antarctica and encountering penguins first-hand. You can also dive deep to explore the underwater world or spend time marvelling at the power of Niagara's spectacular Horseshoe Falls as they cascade dramatically. Our expedition ships have been specially designed to be able to traverse the locks from the St. Lawrence Seaway into the Great Lakes. In order to maximise the collaborative research opportunities while voyaging there, Viking has partnered with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, specifically their Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA GLERL), in Ann Arbor Michigan, the pre-eminent body that undertakes both research and conservation of the world's largest freshwater ecosystem. Our planned collaborative research, and data gathered from our shipboard instrumentation during Great Lakes voyages, will contribute a vital component to the long-term meteorological and oceanographic modelling undertaken by GLERL, which in turn significantly informs weather prediction for the North American Continent. To read more about this initiative, please visit www.glerl.noaa.gov Viking Resident Scientists provide invaluable insight T here to enrich your journey to the extraordinary, we have a qualified team of Resident Scientists onboard our purpose-built expedition ships, as well as state-of-the-art scientific laboratories so you can participate in scientific field research. THE TEAM Our experienced expedition team is lucky enough to be led by Jørn Henriksen, Director of Expedition Operations. Growing up and living in Arctic Norway for over 45 years, with family roots in Norway's indigenous heritage, Henriksen has worked in expedition management for 25 years. We are also happy to have the expertise of Dr. Damon Stanwell-Smith with us, a marine biologist with a 27-year career involved with the Antarctic. Having visited many places across the globe, there is nowhere else that gives him that same sense of wilderness than the polar regions. Elsewhere, our Independent Viking Scientific Advisory Committee consists of several of the world's leading scientific institutions in the fields of atmospheric sciences, botany, glaciology, marine biology and ornithology and we are thrilled to bring their knowledge, know-how and experience to our expeditions. Chairing the team we are privileged to have the Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Professor Julian Dowdeswell. We are also honoured to have the legendary polar explorers, Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft as our ships' godmothers. 33 D I S C O V E R Y Clockwise, from far left: Resident Scientists are on hand to chat with guests; floating amongst the icebergs; Karine Hagen in Svalbard; the expedition central studio; Chairman of Viking Torstein Hagen and Jørn Henriksen, Viking's Director of Expedition Operation; RIB trips offer guests the chance to participate in research work Scientific Partnerships SCIENTIFIC PARTNERSHIPS Our lead partner is the University of Cambridge's Scott Polar Research Institute, whose scientists will undertake fieldwork on board Viking expedition vessels. is relationship is underpinned by a major Viking endowment for scientific research of the polar regions, e Viking Chair of Polar Marine Geoscience, a Cambridge University full professorship based at the Scott Polar Research Institute, as well as a sponsorship fund supporting the Institute's graduate students. We have also partnered up with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, a globally recognised bird research facility. eir ornithologists will regularly be on board, field testing and collecting data for the observation database (eBird.com). Our onboard expedition programme is designed to prepare guests for their onshore experiences, with over 25 experts accompanying each journey – our Viking Expedition Team (expedition leader and staff, photographer and submarine pilots) and Viking Resident Scientists (biologists, botanists, geologists, glaciologists, oceanographers, ornithologists, polar experts and researchers) from our partnerships. OUR EXCURSIONS To make the most of your Viking expedition and maximise your discoveries, there is a range of excursions on offer. Offering incredible views of remote landscapes and remarkable wildlife up close, these opportunities are led by our fantastic team of highly skilled experts with a background of operating in rugged and polar environments. Included experiences include hiking through the majestic landscape of northern Norway, taking a zodiac to land on Antarctica and encountering penguins first-hand. You can also dive deep to explore the underwater world or spend time marvelling at the power of Niagara's spectacular Horseshoe Falls as they cascade dramatically. Our expedition ships have been specially designed to be able to traverse the locks from the St. Lawrence Seaway into the Great Lakes. In order to maximise the collaborative research opportunities while voyaging there, Viking has partnered with the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, specifically their Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (NOAA GLERL), in Ann Arbor Michigan, the pre-eminent body that undertakes both research and conservation of the world's largest freshwater ecosystem. Our planned collaborative research, and data gathered from our shipboard instrumentation during Great Lakes voyages, will contribute a vital component to the long-term meteorological and oceanographic modelling undertaken by GLERL, which in turn significantly informs weather prediction for the North American Continent. To read more about this initiative, please visit www.glerl.noaa.gov Viking Resident Scientists provide invaluable insight T here to enrich your journey to the extraordinary, we have a qualified team of Resident Scientists onboard our purpose-built expedition ships, as well as state-of-the-art scientific laboratories so you can participate in scientific field research. THE TEAM Our experienced expedition team is lucky enough to be led by Jørn Henriksen, Director of Expedition Operations. Growing up and living in Arctic Norway for over 45 years, with family roots in Norway's indigenous heritage, Henriksen has worked in expedition management for 25 years. We are also happy to have the expertise of Dr. Damon Stanwell-Smith with us, a marine biologist with a 27-year career involved with the Antarctic. Having visited many places across the globe, there is nowhere else that gives him that same sense of wilderness than the polar regions. Elsewhere, our Independent Viking Scientific Advisory Committee consists of several of the world's leading scientific institutions in the fields of atmospheric sciences, botany, glaciology, marine biology and ornithology and we are thrilled to bring their knowledge, know-how and experience to our expeditions. Chairing the team we are privileged to have the Director of the Scott Polar Research Institute, Professor Julian Dowdeswell. We are also honoured to have the legendary polar explorers, Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft as our ships' godmothers. viking.com 85

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