flag reports from expeditions in 2019-2023

 


CALLIE VEELENTURF

Discovering the Pearl Island’s Endangered Treasure in Panama


FELICITY ASTON

The B.I.G. – Before It’s Gone – North Pole Expedition in Svalbard, Norway


GAELIN ROSENWAKS

Sperm Whales in Dominica


ALLISON HANES Folklore & Conservation- Siberut, Mentawai Islands, Indonesia


SILVIA SCHRÖTTER

Resilience of Small-Scale Farmers Toward Climate Change in Upper East Ghana


ARITA BAAIJENS

The Living Forest in Papua New Guinea


APRIL BURT

The Aldabra Clean Up Project


FELICITY ASTON

The B.I.G. – Before It’s Gone – North Pole Expedition in Iceland


RAHAYU OKTAVIANI

Finding the Perfect Place – Monitoring Sleeping Trees Selected by Javan Gibbon


TERRIE WILLIAMS

Assessing the Effects of Climate Change on Narwhals



FLAG EXPEDITION ARCHIVE

Below is a listing of expeditions with links to WINGS WorldQuest flag reports. The names of Flag Carriers who are also WINGS Fellows contain profile links.

REPORTS BY REGION:


ASIA

India
Studying the Habitat of the Greater One-Horned Rhino in West Bengal, Gitanjali Banerjee, 2006

Eastern Tibet
Documenting Flora on the Tibetan Plateau, Diane Agaki, 2007

Western China
Cycling the Silk Road: On the Trail of Marco PoloKate Harris, 2007

Altai Mountains
Expedition to Paradise, Altai Mountain Range, Arita Baaijens, 2013

India
Access Water: Ganges River Valley,  Ann Bancroft & Liv Arnesen, 2015

Pamir Mountain Range
Kate Harris : BORDERSKI, Pamir Mountain Range, 2015
– A film about this expedition is being made! Check out the teaser

Reducing the Overexploitation of the Bengal Tiger Habitat, Silvia Schrötter, 2018

Indonesia
Folklore and Conservation in Siberut, Allison C. Hanes, 2019


ATLANTIC

Bahamas
Collecting Geochemical Samples from a Cave on San Salvador Island, Stephanie Schwabe, 2005

Atlantic Ocean
Crossing the Ocean on a Reed Sailing Boat, Sabrina Lorenz, 2007

Atlantic Ocean
Following the Route of Columbus: Crossing the Atlantic by Sailboat, Beryl Bell, 2007

Northern Bahamas
Tracking Three Generations of Wild Dolphins in the Bahamas: 26 Years in the Field, Denise Herzing, 2010

South Atlantic Ocean
5 Gyres Expedition: The World’s First South Atlantic Ocean Plastic-Pollution StudyAnna Cummins, 2010


EUROPE

Spain
Tracing the Transition from Neanderthal to Cro-Magnon in Western Europe, Anna Pinto, 2005

Europe-Africa
Following Endangered White Storks Across Two Continents, Lorie Karnath, 2007

Greece
Photographing Ancient Sites on the Island of CreteMarilyn Bridges, 2010


NORTH/CENTRAL AMERICA

Belize
The Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge, Jeanette Salfeety, 2005

Dry Tortugas
Bird Banding in the Dry Tortugas, Dalia Amor-Conde, 2005

Guatemala
Roads, Deforestation, and Jaguars, Dalia Amor-Conde, 2006

Wyoming, U.S.
Searching for Cretaceous Dinosaurs, Sue Hendrickson, 2006

Columbia River Basin
Exploring the Health of North America’s Majestic Columbia River, Alison Jones, 2007

Florida/California, U.S,
Deep-Sea Exploration with New Eyes and Ears, Edie Widder, 2007

British Columbia, Canada
Tracking Wolves in the Great Bear Rainforest, Heather Bryan, 2008

Upper Columbia River Basin
Exploring Freshwater Values and Management Solutions, Allison Jones, 2008

Great Dismal Swamp, Virginia, U.S.
Swampscapes: Archaeological Exploration in the Great Dismal Swamp, Becca Peixotto, 2016



PACIFIC

Papua New Guinea and Solomon Island
Headhunt Revisited: Charting Cultural Change in Melanesia, Michele Westmorland and Karen Huntt, 2005

Papua New Guinea
Underwater TV: Convict Fish Behavior at Sunrise and Sunset, Eugenie Clark, 2006

Papua New Guinea
Diving to Observe Poisonous Catfish, Eugenie Clark and Anne Doubilet, 2007

Republic of Vanuatu
Female Chiefs of Maewo Island, Sophie Hollingsworth, 2016

Papua New Guinea
The Mountain Speaks, Arita Baaijens, 2016

Republic of Palau
Coral Resilience in the Face of Climate Change, Gaelin Rosenwaks, 2018

Fiji
The Taro Tales: Ethnobotany of Fiji’s Prestige Crop, Sefra Alexandra, 2019

Papua New Guinea
Voices of the Forest, Arita Baaijens, 2020


POLAR REGIONS

Greenland
Exploring the Greenland Ice Sheet, Natalie Kerhwald, 2007

Svalbard
Chasing the Light at 79 Degrees North, Rena Bass Forman, 2008

Lake Baikal
Life On Thin Ice, Felicity Aston, 2008

Alaska
Labyrinth Sublime: The Inside Passage, North to Alaska, Rosemarie Keough, 2008

Kangiqtugaapik/Clyde River, Baffin Island
The Siku-Inuit-Hila Conference on Sea Ice and Climate ChangeLene Keilsen-Holm, 2008

Arctic
Amundsen Expedition -Exploring and Documenting Marine Benthic Ecosystems in the Arctic, Maeva Gaulthier, 2010

Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada
Katujjiqatigii: Working Together, The Sedna Epic Expedition, Susan R. Eaton and the Team Sedna, 2016

Antarctica
Homeward Bound, Joanna Young, 2016

Antarctica
Antarctica and Mount Erebus as Analogues for Planetary Landscapes, Rosaly Lopes, 2016

The Arctic
The Women’s Euro-Arabian North Pole Expedition, Felicity Aston, 2018

Greenland
Climate Change and the Iconic Narwhal, Terrie Williams, 2019