Staff

Born in Canada, Allan spent his childhood and youth immersed in nature and outdoor pursuits, from Ontario’s cottage country to the Canadian Rockies. Throughout his life he could be found studying books and maps, daydreaming about the Arctic. In 2016, deep into a design and building career, yet recognized for his interests and transferrable skills, Allan received an invitation to join a ship as part of their polar bear safety team. He quite literally dropped his tools and headed to Baffin Island, and has been working in the polar regions since. Now when not working on expedition vessels in the polar regions Allan divides his time in Canada between Ontario’s Kawartha Lakes and the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia.

Anne Dorthe has a Double master’s degree in Environmental Science from University of Copenhagen and University of Vienna. For 5 years she worked as an environmental consultant in the private sector in Denmark. Today she resides in Greenland working as a special advisor for the Greenlandic Government at the Ministry for Environment in Nuuk. Her work is focused on ensuring prevention of contaminations in Greenland and developing new legislation on the subject. 

Since 2007 she has been working as a freelance guide around the world and since 2013 she has spend most of this time in the Arctic either as destination manager or expedition guide.  
Anne loves to live in the Greenland where it is possible to go cross-country skiing or mountain climbing only 5 minutes from her home. Every day the Arctic weather shows new wonders.

Barbara was born in Austria and has since her childhood days a sincere interest in nature and mountaineering. Therefore, the biology study in Innsbruck fitted perfectly to her interests. During her bachelor study program, she already worked for several scientific projects on cold ecosystems (Alpine region, Arctic) as well as the tropics.

During this time, she developed a strong passion for lives of animals, especially invertebrates.She finished her Master of Science/Zoology with writing a thesis about a water bear species, a tiny resilient multicellular animal, living on the surface of glaciers.

In 2012 the freshly graduated zoologist entered the world of tourism as a passionate nature guide and ever since joined many expedition cruises in cold regions (Arctic, Antarctica) and warmer climes (South America, Southeast Asia, Australasia, Oceania).

Benjamin grew up in the windswept hills and moors of northern England. It was here that his passion for history germinated. Whilst studying for his Bachelor’s degree in Edinburgh, Scotland, he began working as a lecturer in Norse and Celtic history on board expedition ships in Norway and the Scottish Isles.

These days, Benjamin guides and lectures on history and culture throughout the world’s polar regions. In his spare time, Benjamin cultivates his various interests, including reading Russian literature, studying philology, and playing the guitar.

Carina was born in 1982 in Austria. She studied ecology and zoology in Salzburg, Austria and marine biology in Northern Ireland before she started wandering the world. In the coming years she worked as a dog sled guide in Arctic Norway and on Svalbard, guided whale watching tours in Iceland, and backpacked through South and Middle America for a year.

Her first experience of work on an expedition vessel in Antarctica in 2019 solidified her wish to continue working in the polar regions. Her main goal is to learn as much as possible about (marine) life in order to share her knowledge and enthusiasm. She is especially fond of marine invertebrates such as molluscs and crabs, and she can often be found rockpooling. Feel free to indicate any special wishes you have for the cooperation with Albatros Expeditions - special destinations you would like to work at, special areas of interest you would like to work with, etc.

Constantina was raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since she was a child she felt really fond of nature and animals. She was lucky to start a journey when she was very young around
South America that opened her world to different cultures and ways of life. After that journey she devoted to practice and teach meditation and breathing techniques. Since 2016 she has been living and working as a tour guide in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego. Some of the tours include Tierra del Fuego National Park and the penguin colonies of Martillo Island. Due to the proximity of Ushuaia to the White Continent, the call to Antarctica was not long to come.

Dave is an avid explorer of remote places and a wildlife ecologist with a great respect for the polar regions and the wildlife who call the cold their home. With a Master’s degree in landscape ecology, Dave works for Parks Canada as a human-wildlife conflict specialist, managing the complex interface between visitor experience and wildlife populations and finding research based solutions to wicked ecological problems. Based in Banff in the western mountain region of Canada, he has decades of experience capturing, researching and managing grizzly and black bears, wolves, wolverines, cougars, elk, bison and moose. Dave also works as a polar bear interpretive guide each fall in Churchill, an avalanche forecaster in the Canadian Rockies during the winters and a ship based expedition guide in the Canadian Arctic, Greenland and Antarctica. He is a member of the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides and Canadian Avalanche Association. When not working or guiding, Dave has a visceral draw to wild spaces and has completed more than twenty-five self-propelled ski touring, mountaineering, and paddling expeditions throughout the world. He is a Royal Canadian Geographic Society grantee in 2022 and 2024 for expeditions to Ellesmere and Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic.

For over twenty five years, David has been involved in the Arctic expedition and travel business. Since moving from Scotland to the Arctic, he has led, organized or participated in more than three hundred Arctic and Antarctic expeditions, trips and projects.

In that time he has travelled thousands of miles by dog sled, ski, snowmobile, boat, kayak, ship, foot and most recently became the first person to cross Baffin Island by fat tire bike.

 He has completed eighteen successful expeditions through the Northwest Passage and guided over seventy trips to Churchill, Manitoba. He was recently honoured by Canada Goose by becoming a “Goose Person” (one of only 50 people chosen across Canada) and share in the 50th anniversary of this great Canadian company.

Diego Punta Fernandez is an Expedition Leader, avid birder, and general naturalist with more than a decade working in the polar regions. Living in Patagonia since the late 90’s, he’s been guiding groups to the most isolated and unique places in the world like El Chaltén, Ushuaia, Antarctica, the British Isles, Norwegian fjords, Svalbard, Greenland and Iceland.

Passionate about birds and polar environments, Diego owns and runs a publishing company 49Southphoto, and has published several guides of flora and fauna of Patagonia, Antarctica and the Arctic regions (www.49southphoto.com) Diego has developed and participated in many conservation projects in South Patagonia

Eva is a polar scientist, with a particular passion for marine mammals. From narwhals in the North West Passage to Type D Orca in the Drake Passage, Eva’s inherent love for whales has taken her across all 7 continents in the name of science. She is actively involved in cetacean research with a focus on tagging, biopsy and drone work.
She graduated at the top of her class with a Masters in Polar Science from the British Antarctic Survey and Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. 

She has a keen interest in scientific communication and making research accessible for everyone to be able to digest and enjoy. Her research has gained notable awards at several international conferences and she has had publications picked up by National Geographic, IFL Science, CNN and LiveScience to name a few.
Eva is a Zodiac Instructor, Emergency First Response Instructor and PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor, taking every opportunity possible to further her education and knowledge base.

Heidi hails from Finland where she started her guiding career in Finnish Laplandmore than 15 years ago. She has since worked in various roles in tourism, lived in Scotland, Italy, England, and Bali, and travelled extensively around the world. She spend the 2018-2019 Antarctic summer season working as a Base Leader at the Penguin Post office at Port Lockroy, where she lived on an island the size of a football pitch with four other people and 1500 Gentoo penguins for four months.

The following year she returned to Antarctica as an expedition guide and also spent another two months at Port Lockroy helping the team out. The past year she has lived in Eastern Lapland working as a project manager on a project related to an establishment of Finland’s 41st national park in January 2022

Jeff was born in Tianjin, a coastal city in China. His father, an explorer, took him on frequent travels since he was a young boy, igniting his passion for adventure. Growing up by the sea, he honed his watercraft skills, inspired by his surroundings.

As he grew older, Jeff immersed himself in ocean-related work, dedicating his time to expeditions and voyages. He has made multiple visits to the Antarctic and Arctic regions, gaining extensive knowledge about these polar areas. Alongside his expertise in polar regions, Jeff is well-versed in Asian culture, making conversations with him an opportunity to learn intriguing facts.

Originally from Fyn, Denmark, but lived in Greenland for a total of 10,5 years. I’ve mainly worked with tourism in Greenland.

I spent 3,5 years in my childhood living in Greenland, both in village and city. I love to explore the arctic in all sorts of ways, whether it’s by sea, land, or air, in summer or winter the country is always mesmerizing.

If I am not working, you will find me running, knitting, or exploring nature whether it’s on a boat or a snowmobile, I am out in nature.

The ocean had always been part of Laura’s life. She started spending time on sailboats when she was a baby and she sailed around the world crossing several oceans when she was between 12 and 14 years old. That trip increased her passion for the ocean because she discovered its vastness and its importance on the earth’s dynamic. Born in France, she grew up in the French part of Canada where she did her bachelor’s degree in Geological Engineering. She became fascinated by the polar regions and wanted to continue her studies in that field. That is why, at the end of her degree, she left Canada for Tasmania, Australia, to do her Master's in Marine and Antarctic Science. Since 2018, she has been guiding in the polar region in both Antarctica and the Arctic.

Lisa has over 20 years’ experience in the polar regions through work adventures ranging from fishing, mining to tourism: commercial fishing King Salmon in the Bering Sea; navigating thru remote tundra across Canada’s Arctic gold prospecting; assisting mountaineering expeditions to summit Denali; working at a basecamp facilitating tourism and research below the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica.

In her personal time, she finds herself hiking though the Arctic mountain ranges, travelling to northern Siberia to learn the culture of the Evans Peoples, on surf expeditions on the coast of British Columbia and backcountry ski touring from her home in the Selkirk Mountains. She just completed a master’s degree in Polar Law, having studied in Iceland, Greenland and Norway. Topics included; Antarctic Law and Policy, Law of the Sea, Societies and Cultures in the Arctic, Maritime Industries and Resources Law, Arctic Development Economics.

After roaming for years in the nature, mostly in his time off, one day Lucian decided to spend more time in the nature and become a guide. In 2017 he arrived on Svalbard where for 1 year he studied to become an Arctic Nature Guide.

Since 2018 Lucian has followed thearctic seasons, from Svalbard, Norway, to North of Sweden and Iceland, never stop being amazed by the arctic nature and sharing unique experiences with people from all over the world. Lucian has several qualifications for guiding: arctic nature guide, glacier guide, international mountain leader.

When not guiding or exploring a mountain he is involved in various projects related to sustainable mountain tourism and guiding. You can read more and follow his work here: https://www.mountainsynergies.org/ 

Marc had the itch for the great outdoors right from the start. He took a leap of faith over two decades ago to join this passion to his career and got an opportunity to start on the Athabasca glacier at the Columbia Icefield in 2000. From there doors have opened up, meeting friends and contacts, he was able to expand his experiences in many fields such as rafting, guiding dog sledding journeys, outings in the tundra of Churchill to find polar bears and many more… He also had the privilege to work across the Arctic/Antarctic as a zodiac driver for many years…

Safety being a priority, he has been certified as a emergency medical responder with the Alberta college of Paramedic and has taking many courses such as crevasses rescue, swift white water rescue, avalanche awareness and other such certifications to implement prevention and care. Residing in the Yukon Territory, taking any opportunity to smell the roses and sharing is passion, on or off work!

Maximiliano was born and raised in Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. As a child, he had contact with the sea and Antarctica, since his father worked for USARP on the M/V Hero and he grew up with stories of the White Continent. At the age of 26, Maximiliano started working at Antarctica and today, after so many years, he is still madly in love with this beautiful place at the end of the earth. 

He considers himself a general guide but with more knowledge in botany, birds and marine mammals.

Maximiliano studied Physical Education and graduated as a coach for high-performance athletes. He is also a snowboard instructor and has knowledge of mountain activities. He has been a firefighter and rescuer in traffic accidents, and also a motor sailing yacht helmsman. Nowadays, Maximiliano lives in Spain, in the province of Huelva.

Nathan Lesser is a San Diego resident with a passion for nature, athletics, and education. He is a true waterman; spending the majority of his free time surfing or diving at his local beaches. In high school Nathan was a member of his men’s waterpolo and lacrosse team although his current sports dedication is cheering on his home town San Diego Padres. Nate has been surfing since he was toddler and was a member of his university’s nationally ranked intercollegiate surf team. Nathan studied marine science at Cal Poly, where their learn by doing motto took him on algae collections, intertidal habits, and even boat excursions through Morro Bay. One of the biggest influences in Nathan’s life was San Diego’s junior lifeguard program. Growing up he participated in the summer program for 6 years where he learned ocean skills for life.

At the age of 16 he began working for the program as an intern and after two years of training was prepared to be an ocean lifeguard. This is when Nathan became an Emergency Medical Technician and went through the Miramar Regional Lifeguard Academy. Since this academy, he has been on CPR calls, received certification as a jet ski rescue operator, and served the beach patrons of San Diego. The Summer of 2022 provided Nathan with an opportunity to return to the junior lifeguard program as an Intern coordinator, where he was responsible for supervising students that were working a job he once had.

Born in Buenos Aires- Argentina, Otto has been passionate about water sports since he was a boy, such as speed kayaking K1’s, canoeing, scuba diving and kite surfing.

He started his career in the emergency services 13 years ago, trained with the Argentinian Prefecture to become a Rescue Swimmer and lifesaver and worked in multiple countries around the world such as Spain, Argentina and the UK.

He also has been working as a Kayak Guide in the south of Buenos Aires Province for the last 3 summer seasons and instructed with the training of ACA (American Canoe Association). Since 2018 he has been committed with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in the South West of England, training lifeguards in operational command and first aid.

Renè Olsen grew up on the west coast of Norway, with the north sea, deep fjords and big mountains all around him, making him experience all the toughest nature has to offer allready from young age. He early on knew he wanted to be a guide outdoors and allready at age 16 did he's first guideschool.

He's later spent time guiding in the mountains as well on the sea in Norway and North America.

With he's time from the Norwegian army, experience from guiding on 3 continents, and also handling boat's on the Norwegian coast as a skipper, in Svalbard and on the mainland, he'll be sure to keep you safe and also entertain you, while out adventuring together.

Sabrina is originally from Germany and came to Norway in 2017 to study tourism in the far north. She fell in love with the Norwegian nature and lifestyle and decided to move to Svalbard to work. She has lived on the island fulltime for a few years, experiencing both the long polar night and midnight sun.

Working in various positions, she has been showing this incredible place to guests from all over the world. But after some seasons of total darkness, she now spends her winters a little further south in the Lofoten Islands. In the winter, she goes cross-county skiing with her Alaskan husky and in the summertime, she likes to camp, hike and kayak.

Born and raised in Denmark, Sanne today lives in a small village near the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa.

Sanne holds a Bachelor degree in Natural Science and an MBA. She works in educational publishing and has written and edited science high school study books for many African countries such as South Africa, Namibia, Zambia, Cameroon and Rwanda.

Current work on the whale populations of the Southern Seas has taken her to Antarctica for research. Sanne also feels at home in the African bush where she works as a tour leader, guiding groups on safaris in the many national parks of Southern Africa. During her spare time, Sanne enjoys sailing, hiking in the mountains and spending time in the great outdoors.

Stephanie was born and raised in Potsdam, Germany. Since early childhood, she has been a sports enthusiast and outdoor lover. Still, her professional life started as a business admin working for many years in Berlin and shortly also in Dubai. But everyday outside of the office she spent traveling, just following her passion for exploring new places and cultures all around the world. 
During a sabbatical year, she backpacked through the wonderful world of Down Under. 

In 2016, a trip to Antarctica felt like a wake-up call. A trip to the Arctic two years later confirmed it: Stephanie had fallen in love with the cold ends of the earth and everything about it. Hence, it was time to leave the office desk and embark on a new professional adventure among snow, ice, mesmerizing wildlife and places that tell great history.

Tamsin was born and raised in London but in 2009 moved to Revelstoke, a small mountaintown in British Columbia. She loves adventure and all things outdoors. A skier in the winter, a paddler, hiker and motorcyclist in the summer.

Her passion for adventure has taken her motorcycling through the Himalayas solo, river boating down the Amazon, staying with the Head Hunter Tribe in Borneo and traveling over glaciers in Alaska to name a few. She loves to learn and is interested in self development, photography, playing music and meeting people from all different areas of the world.

Tamsin worked in remote areas in backcountry helicopter skiing & hiking, fishing and eco lodges and has been working in the polar regions since 2019. 

Vanja was born and raised on a sheep farm in the Faroe Islands. She spent a few years abroad in Denmark. Now she lives in her hometown Hósvík in the Faroe Islands together with her husband and youngest daughter. 

Vanja has always loved being on the water, as a child her playground was the sea and the mountains. She changed her job title from office manager to kayak guide, and has been working in the polar regions a few years now. For Vanja, kayaking is all about connecting with nature, to be close to wildlife without disturbing, to enjoy the quiet from our everyday noise and just listen to nothing for a moment. 

Her favorite places to kayak until now are Faroe Islands, of course! Especially Eiði and Suðuroy, Alkafjellet in Svalbard, Baffin Island in Canada, Disco Island in Greenland and Paradise Bay in Antarctica. 

From Shenyang via Adelaide, Melbourne and Beijing, Hsiao now calls Vancouver Island home. He has worn many hats - from school teacher, translator, journalist, film producer and banker. As a passionate globe-trotter, both for work and wanderlust, joining Albatros marked a new chapter in his life, with which Hsiao has ventured across some of the world's most extreme terrains, deepening his connection with our planet and its eclectic mix of wildlife and humanity, in all diverse and colorful forms. The journeys have sparked a profound appreciation for nature in him, a fervor he shares eagerly with everyone he meets.