Haiku
Deep dives complete me
Mysteriously cleansing me
Clear mind, heart and soul

What sea creature is representative of you and why?
Titan Triggerfish - Solitary, protective, and attacks when threatened.

Biography
Brent Anderson is a long time marine life enthusiast; he decided to be a marine biologist at age five; and studied Marine Biology at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
Brent lives (for now) in Salt Lake City, Utah and runs a non-profit organization; The Living Planet Aquarium, which he started in March of 1998.
Brent has been diving since 1989 but has never been east of Hawaii until this expedition to Indonesia.

Project Assignment
Brent was tasked with deriving ideas and plans to help the Imaging Foundation raise awareness of it's mission as well as ways to raise funds to sustain and expand the organization. He is also further developing ideas about the partnership with the Living Planet.

Haiku
Observing patient aware and knowing
The silent rhythm of prismatic pulse
Ocean sovereign of effortless motion

What sea creature is representative of you and why?
Cuttlefish

Biography
Bruce Shafer was a K-12 Shop and Math teacher prior to his career as a Standardization Instructor Pilot for the US Army. Retired from the military since 2003, Bruce finds pleasure in golfing, scuba diving, and giving scuba instruction to family and friends. Bruce lives and plays in the D.C. area of Maryland.
Many thanks to the North Sulawesi Aggressor Family for making this a most enjoyable (and fattening) trip!

Project Assignment
Bruce was instrumental in creating the delightful North Sulawesi Expedition web pages that hopefully you are enjoying. Bruce also took some of the awesome underwater photos with his meager Olympus 8080 digital zoom camera. No, it's not an SLR!

Haiku
Who has the time for
Making up little rhymes when
It’s time to go dive?

Favorite Saying
"It's a GR8 day to be alive!"

Biography
Carrol Florkiewicz is a retired teacher who is looking for adventure!

Project Assignment
Carrol was tasked to further develop the Imaging Foundation's Intern Program. As a result, she spent much of her time mentoring our IF intern, Kelsey.

Haiku
Frigates sail the sky
The ship plows the rolling sea
Divers stalk the deep

What sea creature is representative of you and why?
The Blue-Ringed Octopus - They are rare, curious and able to camouflage themselves.

Project Assignment
Reviewing video clips

What sea creature is representative of you and why?
Clown fish - since I like to "clown" around, the clownfishes remind me of my good memories of diving.

Biography
Jackie Walker is married to team member Dave. She retired from the medical field two and a half years ago. Jackie has lived in Minnesota, Aspen, Colorado, Dan Point and Laguna Beach, California.
Jackie was scuba certified four years ago in Roatan and was hooked. She also enjoys traveling, hiking, photography, biking, gardening, and camping and has created a web site for a hiking group.
Jackie has enjoyed Imaging Foundation trips to Tonga, Cayman Islands, Galapagos, and now, North Sulawesi. With retirement, Jackie's goal is to travel more often.
Jackie and Dave have now combined their love of diving and travel, to dive with a purpose, with the Imaging Foundation and look forward to future IF trips.

Project Assignment
Jackie hand-wrote and addressed hundreds of inquiry cards in order to update email addresses of Imaging Foundation contacts.

Favorite Saying
"If you are lucky enough to be here, you are lucky enough!"

What sea creature is representative of you and why?
The Merlion Creature of Singapore - half lion and half mermaid.

Biography
What can you say about Jay Ireland and Georgienne Bradley, that hasn't been said before?

Thanks for a great expedition!

Haiku
Unnatural for most
Drawn deep below
There I am complete

Biography
Jeff Caplow started scuba diving in high school for the fun of diving during waterfront rescue drills at the summer camp at which he worked. He returned to diving three years ago and has been diving frequently since then and working on developing his underwater photography skills.
Jeff has been working as a software engineer for the past 15 years at Cray Inc., specializing in Unix/Linux operating systems and other aspects of the hardware-software interface in high-end computers used for scientific purposes.

Project Assignment
Jeff assisted with creation of this project's web page and review of submitted photographs.

Biography
John Monk was certified for SCUBA in southern California in 1977, bought his first underwater camera, a Nikonos V, in 1985, and upgraded to a digital camera a year and a half ago. A retired Math and Science teacher, John currently uses a Nikon D70 underwater and a Nikon D200 above water. John uses both a PC and a Macintosh depending on the application and uses Photoshop CS for image manipulation.

Project Assignment
John was the underwater camera and Photoshop CS assistant and manipulated images.

Haiku
Pygmy sea horses
Are there stranger creatures here?
Crawling fish with legs

Biography
Judy Bennett is a recently retired medical laboratory technologist. She is one of the original core members of the Imaging Foundation. Her duties include the website development and maintenance as well as managing the Imaging Foundation catalog of images.
Judy has been a diver for over 16 years. Working with the Imaging Foundationhas allowed her to indulge in her interest in underwater photography.

Project Assignment
Catalog.

Biography
Kelsey Powell is the Imaging Foundation's sixteen-year-old intern. She lives in Croydon, Pennsylvania and attends the Bucks County Technical High School, where she is enrolled in the commercial photography program.
This Indonesia adventure is Kelsey's very first Imaging Foundation expedition. She actually accomplished her open water scuba certification dives in the beautiful waters of Indonesia. We think she will be spoiled forever!

Project Assignment
Kelsey was responsible for helping the Aggressor Captain with the boat's daily log. Her infectious smile helped keep the positive attitude of the Imaging Foundation Expedition. Check out Kelsey's journal of her Indonesia expedition on this Trip Report's home page!

Biography
Mike Coughlin has been diving longer than he has been a Software Developer and IT Manager; eighteen years as opposed to fifteen years!
One of Mike's dive goals is to become a more accomplished underwater photographer as he started recording u/w images only one year ago.

Project Assignment
Mike provided all of the biography photos (well, except his own) and many of the candid shots. He was also a valued computer tech and self-appointed nightly wine taster.

Biography
Phil Coles has spent the past decade working as a wildlife film maker, for the most part producing, but also writing and editing for international broadcasters such as National Geographic and Animal Planet and now has one hundred titles under his belt. Before entering this field he completed a BSc hons degree ‘Biological Imaging’ at the University of Derby. Phil has always had a keen interest in all wildlife, especially marine mammals, perhaps beginning with a trip to see the blue whale model at the Natural History Museum, aged 3, and reinforced by the chance discovery of a dead porpoise that had been caught in fishing gear at the age of eleven. Throughout his education and career Phil has spent his free time in whale research projects, eco tourism and conservation, beginning age 16, putting together a minke whale photo-ID catalogue on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. He regularly writes and illustrates for a number of organizations and publications, including the now discontinued Whale and Dolphin magazine and has illustrated two field guides to marine mammals.
He was one of the founders of a whale and dolphin charity, ORCA and remains a trustee and comity member. Phil brings a wide range of skills, particularly in writing, illustrating, the presenting of ideas, a wide knowledge of wildlife and good people skills. His greatest passion is the poorly known family of beaked whales. Most of his whale-watching and surveying has targeted these secretive animals. He now manages the ORCA project, ‘The Beaked Whale Resource’ which aims to build a better understanding of the beaked whales that might one day contribute to their conservation.

Project Assignment
Phil joined the Imaging Foundation team to capture and review new high definition footage to help feed back on the progress of the camera work and the potential use of the footage (using his knowledge of the television industry), and also to share with the group some of his thoughts in the way that production and the use of an image can support conservation and education, the fundamentals of the Imaging Foundation.

Haiku
Georgienne made me come…
But oh boy, I’m glad she did
To this paradise!

What sea creature is representative of you and why?
I’d quite like to think of myself as a flamboyant cuttlefish, not afraid to add a touch of colour and stand out in the crowd!

Biography
Frog fish, stargazer, wonderpuss in the muck - who knew that Sooki Raphael would find a stranger world than Hollywood underwater in Indonesia?
In her land life, Sooki works for a film production company in Los Angeles, California. She was scuba-certified specifically for this expedition and she raves that each successive dive became the best of her diving career.
Sooki gives kudos to the Imaging Foundation for bringing a strong, diverse group of workers together to help them share the wonders of the natural world.

Project Assignment
Sooki was instrumental in cataloging thousands of image files and still had time enough to take many of the above water photos during this expedition.

Haiku
Gash of eyes and teeth
Stargazer buried in sand
So much underneath