Barbara and Joel Thayer will share photos taken on their tour of New Zealand.  They will begin on North Island, walking through the Orakei Korako thermal area, then hiking the Golden Traces Trail and flying over the dormant peaks in Tongariro National Park.   Moving down to South Island, they will cruise and hike along Otago Bay to view penguins, shags and seals.  The tour will conclude under the mountains and waterfalls in Fiordland National Park.  Barbara is Associate Professor of Education at Francis Marion University.  Joel is Professor of Sociology.

Steve is a senior instructor of marine science at Coastal Carolina University, where he's been employed since 1991. He has a BS in biology from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and a Master's in Oceanography from Texas A&M University. He has spent two years participating in dozens of research cruises, including seven to Antarctica, as well many others in the North Atlantic, Gulf of Mexico, and Chesapeake Bay. Since fall of 2004, Steve has participated in expedition-style cruises to Panama and Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands, the Gulf of California, Alaska, and Norway, including way above the Arctic Circle to the Svalbard archipelago. Please join us for what promises to be a wonderful talk.