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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.
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 ]
Tayyaba Zafar (born 29 May 1983) is a Pakistani-born astronomer and science communicator. She is widely known to the public as the first woman from Pakistan who visited Antarctica under the Homeward Bound Program. [4]
This list of Antarctica expeditions is a chronological list of expeditions involving Antarctica. Although the existence of a southern continent had been hypothesized as early as the writings of Ptolemy in the 1st century AD, the South Pole was not reached until 1911.
In 2016, Barnard was a participant in a leadership expedition to Antarctica with the global STEM women's leadership program Homeward Bound. [26] She is a member of its Busara Circle [27] of 11 distinguished elder women mentors for the program.
Later that year, she travelled to Antarctica with the largest ever expedition of women in STEM. [13] [14] Her involvement with Homeward Bound [15] has positioned her as an advocate for gender equity, rural youth and climate change leadership. [16] [17] [18]
In 2018, she was part of the largest all-female Antarctica expedition with Homeward Bound. [2] [6] [7] She also founded Co-Lab, an organisation that connects scientists and street artists to create live public science communication events, such as street art.