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Homeward Bound participants go through a twelve month training program that is focused on the topic of climate change and concludes with a three-week expedition to Antarctica. The first Homeward Bound expedition in 2016 attracted media attention as it was the largest ever all-woman expedition to Antarctica, with 76 participating scientists.
2016 – First Homeward Bound expedition, then the largest all-women expedition to Antarctica. [ 53 ] 2016–2017 – Malgorzata Wojtaczka – 52 years old Polish, after 69 days completes solo-unaided-unsupported expedition from Hercules Inlet to the South Pole.
First large (78 member) all-women expedition, Homeward Bound, goes to Antarctica. [74] 2018. On January 8, Feng Jing, aged 36, became the first Chinese woman to reach the South Pole by skis. Linda (Marie) Eketoft, a lawyer and writer from Sweden, became the first woman to Heliski Antarctica on 14 December 2018. [citation needed] 2019
Homeward Bound was a 10-year program designed to encourage women's participation in science and planned to send the first large (78 member) all-women expedition to Antarctica in 2016. [89] The first group, consisting of 76 women, arrived in Antarctica for three weeks in December 2016. [ 90 ]
She is widely known to the public as the first woman from Pakistan who visited Antarctica under the Homeward Bound Program. [4] She completed her PhD in astronomy from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark in 2011 and worked at the European Southern Observatory and Australian Astronomical Observatory. She researches how metals and dust form in ...
Shaw was one of the co-founders of Homeward Bound, a training program for leadership for women in STEM which culminates 12 months of training with a voyage to Antarctica. [25] She was member of the onboard voyage faculty in 2016 & 2018. She drives science and leadership within the program.
Guerra represented Costa Rica in the Homeward Bound expedition in 2019 to Antarctica, which is a global women leadership initiative in the science field. [7] The initiative's intention is to create a women scientists' network and support the leaders in their roles when fighting for sustainability and climate change public policies. [8]
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