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Expeditions 2025/2026
The Arctic Odyssey: Wishes become reality
This journey begins where the Atlantic narrows into the cold blue lungs of the North. We depart from Newfoundland, following the rugged wild coast of Labrador—where cliffs hold memory and the ocean carries stories older than maps. From there, we cross into the interior waters of Hudson Bay and James Bay, traveling along the migration routes of beluga, narwhal, and Arctic char, all part of our focus on marine biodiversity.
Our work is deeply rooted in community partnerships: supporting community-driven science, documenting changing coastlines and sea ice conditions, and building long-term collaborations with Indigenous stewards, knowledge-keepers, and youth. This is not tourism; it is about presence, listening, and shared work toward ocean conservation.
We will stop in Churchill to coordinate on polar bear research and coexistence strategies, before continuing north through Rankin Inlet, Igloolik, Kinngait, Kimmirut, and Iqaluit—each a center of culture, art, resilience, and deep environmental knowledge. We will take the time to learn, witness, and return value: data, educational programs, creative exchange, and ongoing relationships that foster sustainable exploration.
From Baffin Island, we cross to Nuuk and the west coast of Greenland, where glacier fronts are calving faster than any of us would choose to believe. Then onward across Baffin Bay, tracing marine mammal migrations and oceanographic fronts, before reaching Pond Inlet, Clyde River, Arctic Bay, and the windswept stone of Hans Island—a symbol of shared sovereignty and the possibility of diplomacy done right.
Finally, we turn south again, carrying what we’ve seen and documented back to Newfoundland.
Mission Objectives
- Community-led and co-created research with Inuit guardians and scientists
- Marine biodiversity surveys: eDNA, hydroacoustics, ROV twilight-zone filming
- Sea ice observation and climate storytelling grounded in lived knowledge
- Polar bear management & coexistence support with Churchill partners
- Youth and Elders knowledge exchange, art collaborations, VR learning archives
Why This Journey Matters
This route runs through the front lines of climate change—but also through the front lines of resilience. Sea ice is thinning, ecosystems are shifting, and the North is asked to change fastest while contributing least to the crisis. Yet here, knowledge has been held for millennia. The future cannot be shaped without it.
This expedition is not about “discovering” the Arctic. It is about showing up, contributing, documenting, and standing alongside the people who call it home.
We go not to speak for the North—but to make sure the North is heard.
Amazon River: The River & The People
This journey will begin where the river meets the sea—at the vast, tidal mouth of the Amazon, where mangrove roots filter the ocean’s breath and freshwater carries the memory of mountains thousands of kilometres away. We will stage out of Belém and Macapá, beginning with the work that matters most: listening. We will meet with riverine communities, Indigenous organisations, and cultural leaders to define shared priorities and ensure the expedition serves those who live with the river every day through sustainable exploration and community partnerships.
From there, we will move upriver toward Santarém and the clear waters of the Tapajós, conducting baseline water-quality profiles, eDNA biodiversity surveys, and floodplain drone transects. Here, where the brown Amazon and the blue-green Tapajós run side by side, we will document the river’s pulse and the health of the communities and ecosystems that depend on it, all while emphasizing marine biodiversity.
Continuing toward Manaus, we will observe the mixing of the Rio Negro and Solimões—a natural confluence of colour, chemistry, and story. Our path will then branch: one team will follow the dark, nutrient-poor waters of the Rio Negro; another will continue along the Solimões toward the tri-border region of Tabatinga–Leticia–Santa Rosa. Along this corridor, where governance, trade, culture, and conflict overlap, we will conduct careful environmental monitoring and evidence documentation while prioritising community safety, discretion, and partnership.
Crossing into Peru, we will travel through Iquitos and into the flooded forests of Pacaya-Samiria. Here, alongside Indigenous guardians and community monitors, we will map manatee habitat, turtle nesting sites, fisheries cycles, and waterway health indicators. We will record changing conditions—seasonal floods shifting, fish migrations weakening, mercury silently accumulating in food webs—not as outsiders diagnosing, but as collaborators supporting local science and sovereignty, especially in the context of climate change.
Further upriver, we will visit the headwaters of the Marañón, Ucayali, or Napo (as permitted and guided). Here we will focus on cultural exchange, youth training in water testing and drone mapping, oral-history recording, and living-language documentation.
The return journey will follow a complementary path—down the Solimões, up the Rio Negro, across the Tapajós confluence, and back down the mainstem to the Atlantic—allowing us to repeat key sampling sites to detect change over time and confirm patterns observed on the upstream transit.
This expedition will not be tourism. It will be partnership, accountability, and slow, deliberate presence, with a core focus on ocean conservation.
Mission Objectives
1. Community-Led Collaborative Research
Establish long-term agreements with Indigenous federations and riverine communities.
Train youth in monitoring technologies (eDNA, drones, GPS mapping).
Ensure data sovereignty and community-first reporting.
2. River Health & Climate Science
Longitudinal water-quality profiling.
eDNA biodiversity sampling across mainstem and floodplain lakes.
Acoustic and visual surveys of river dolphins, fish choruses, avifauna.
Carbon and nutrient flux assessment in floodplain forests and estuarine mangroves.
3. Environmental Harm & Resource Extraction Monitoring
(Conducted discreetly, respectfully, and always in coordination with local partners.)
Mercury contamination pathways linked to artisanal and illicit gold operations.
Logging and timber transport chain-of-custody verification.
Wildlife trade and overfishing patterns affecting food security.
Impact assessments for dams, industrial ports, and navigation infrastructure.
4. Knowledge Exchange, Storytelling & Education
VR and digital learning modules co-created with youth and Elders.
Return-value storytelling: community-first film, audio, and photographic archives.
Cultural documentation and language preservation where invited.
Why This Expedition Matters
The Amazon is a living system that feeds rain to continents and carbon to the sky. Its health is global health. But those who have protected it longest—Indigenous peoples and riverine communities—are increasingly pressured, isolated, and targeted. The future of the forest will not be decided in conferences, but in villages, classrooms, fish markets, and riverbanks.
This expedition will support the people who already protect the river. We will not arrive to extract stories or samples. We will arrive to work, learn, witness, and stand alongside.
We go not to speak for the Amazon—but to ensure the Amazon, and the voices rooted in it, are heard.
The Northwest Passage: The Water That Remembers
This journey will begin in the waters of Passamaquoddy Bay, where the tides breathe in long slow rhythms and the coastline holds histories older than Canada itself. We will depart from St. Andrews, working first with Wolastoqiyik and Passamaquoddy partners to ground the expedition in shared values, community partnerships, consent, and purpose before we turn north.
We will sail along the rugged coastlines of Newfoundland and Labrador, stopping where invited to exchange knowledge, share monitoring tools, and document shifting ocean conditions. Here, warming seas due to climate change are altering fisheries, storms are reshaping shorelines, and coastal communities are adapting with ingenuity and quiet strength.
From Labrador, we will enter the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, joining Inuit scientists, hunters, and guardians to map marine mammal migrations, ice dynamics, and ecological change. These waters are not empty—they are full of knowledge held in the movements of whales, the shape of ice, and the memory of those who travel with the seasons, all vital for marine biodiversity.
Crossing into Tallurutiup Imanga (Lancaster Sound), we will take our time. This region is among the most ecologically rich and culturally significant in the Arctic. Our work here will support Indigenous-led conservation and ocean conservation efforts, youth training in ROV and drone methods, and community-led eDNA and acoustic biodiversity monitoring.
Only when sea-ice knowledge holders consider the route safe will we proceed westward through the Northwest Passage. This transit will not pursue records or speed. The route will be shaped by ice, weather, and community counsel — not by ambition.
In the Beaufort Sea, we will work with communities facing rapidly changing coastlines, permafrost thaw, and industrial pressure. Here, climate change is not theoretical — it is eroding homes, altering food security, and reshaping cultural continuity.
Turning south at the Bering Strait, we will enter the North Pacific and follow the coast toward Haida Gwaii, where we will collaborate with Indigenous marine stewardship programs focused on kelp forests, salmon cycles, and ocean cultural heritage.
The voyage will end at Victoria, British Columbia — not as a finish line, but as a point of return. The work will continue long after the anchor drops.
This will not be adventure tourism.
It will be relationship, reciprocity, witnessing, and shared research.
Mission Objectives
1. Indigenous-Led Research & Stewardship Partnerships
FPIC and community-first collaboration at every stage.
Youth and guardian training in:
eDNA sampling
ROV twilight-zone documentation
Drone & GIS coastline mapping
Acoustic and marine mammal monitoring
Co-authored and community-controlled outputs.
2. Ocean & Ice Climate Monitoring
Longitudinal transects: salinity, pH, temperature, nutrient flux.
Satellite + lived-knowledge cross-validation of sea-ice conditions.
Marine mammal and fish movement mapping via hydroacoustics & eDNA.
3. Coastal Change & Food Sovereignty Studies
Shoreline erosion repeat-photography.
Community-driven fisheries monitoring.
Story-sharing on adaptation and resilience strategies already working.
4. Cultural and Educational Return Value
VR learning environments recorded with Elders’ guidance.
Story archives returned to communities first.
Educational programs linking classrooms in east, north, and west.
Why This Journey Matters
The Northwest Passage is opening — not as a triumph of exploration, but as a warning.
Shipping routes, resource extraction, and geopolitical interest will accelerate.
But the North already has stewards. The work is to support them, not replace them.
This expedition will not plant flags.
It will listen, document, collaborate, and return value.
We go not to speak for the North — but to make sure the North is heard, on its own terms.