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:
AFRICA
Namibia and South Africa
Field Study: How African Elephants Use Water, Terrie Williams, 2007
Kenya and Tanzania
No Water No Life takes to the Mara River Basin, Allison Jones, 2009
Sahara Desert
Water Supply: Across Borders, Helen Thayer, 2013
Ethiopia
Conserving Ethiopia’s Church Forests, Meg Lowman, 2017
Tanzania
The Women’s Beekeeping Initiative, Laly Lichtenfeld, 2018
Oman Desert
Her Faces of Change, Janey McGill, 2019
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 Polo, Kate 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 Study, Anna 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 Crete, Marilyn 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
SOUTH AMERICA
Amazon
The Lower Amazon Archaeology Project: 2005 Reconnaissance in Brazil, Anna Roosevelt, 2005
Bolivia
High Lakes Expedition: An Astrobiological Trek Across the Altiplano, Nathalie Cabrol, 2005
Argentina Andes Expedition
High-Altitude Archaeology, Constanza Ceruti, 2007
Brazil
Santarem Salvage Project, Anna Roosevelt, 2009
Brazil
Saving the World’s Most Peaceful Primate: The Northern Muriqui Monkey, Karen Strier, 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 Change, Lene 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
