Director of Expedition Development, Ecuador & Peru Lindblad Expeditions

A 25-year veteran of expedition and educational travel, Darrel has organized and led tours to far-flung destinations from Antarctica (where he was expedition leader for seven seasons) to Madagascar, French Polynesia, Baja California, the Canadian Arctic and the North Pole. Active in conservation issues, Schoeling was a Founding Member and Executive Secretary of the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators. He was a U.S. Delegate at Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meetings and instrumental in putting in place guidelines for conduct and spearheaded the first environmental impact assessment of tour operations in the Antarctic by U.S.-based companies. Schoeling Glacier was named in recognition of his work as a pioneer and safe and environmentally responsible travel to the Antarctic. A graduate of Brown, Darrel previously taught at the Collegiate School in New York, ran the docent program and taught at the American Museum of Natural History, and worked as Chief Naturalist Guide on a tour vessel in the Galapagos, which is how all of this started. He is Galapagos Naturalist Guide # 137 and joined the board of the Charles Darwin Foundation in 2017. Darrel lives in New York with husband Jeff Corbin, a small parrot, dog—and 10 chickens. The chickens live not in the West Village but in the Mid-Hudson, where Darrel and Jeff spend as much time as they can.