Biosphere Expeditions’ founder and executive director, Dr. Matthias Hammer, was the Sunday keynote speaker at the Royal Geographical Society’s 2024 Explore Symposium in London, UK. His speech was about citizen science and community involvement on expeditions.
On the day at the RGS he said:
“I am honoured and humbled to be invited as keynote speaker today to the RGS, which was instrumental in getting my first student expedition off the ground 35 years ago. I would not be here today, had it not been for the RGS and Shane and Nigel Winser in particular.
I am also so pleased for Biosphere Expeditions that I should be invited to talk at the RGS on our 25th anniversary – this is a fitting tribute to all the people who have made Biosphere Expeditions what it is over the last quarter century. The honour is therefore theirs, not mine really, and I stand here for all of them – staff, helpers, professional and citizen scientists alike. My heartfelt thanks goes out to all of them.”
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Lovely words however, none of this would of happened if it had not been for you.
Thank you Philip