He joined Penn State in summer 2016 moving from Scotland. He is passionate about youth development through wilderness experiences and has studied and led expeditions for over 25 years. His expeditions have mostly been in Greenland and the Himalaya - including cycling across the Tien Shan Mountains (Kyrgyzstan, China and Pakistan) on a hand powered recumbent bike for a month, cycling from Lhasa (Tibet) to Kathmandu, mountaineering in Ladakh (Northern India), Guiding Kilimanjaro twice and taking young people to Greenland wilderness areas to undertake science work and mountaineering.