Joe is leading a river expedition on the relatively unexplored Kabompo River in Zambia! He’ll join us live from the field to show us how he samples the biodiversity of fish in the river. These rivers are so under explored, he might even turn up a new species!
Joe is a very familiar face here at Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants. The photo above with one of our Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants flags is only a few days old, he just finished an epic transect of the Cuito River in Angola.
He has joined us from various river expedition and tide pooling adventures from California to Gabon to Mongolia. He is currently working with the Wild Bird Foundation of America on the Wilderness Project to survey the great rivers in Africa, including the Zambezi, Congo and Nile, plus their major tributaries.
Joe is an ichthyologist, freshwater ecologist, and an African river explorer. As a National Geographic explorer he studied volcanic crater lakes in Cameroon and completed the first mega transect of Gabon’s Ogooue River in over 100 years, one of Africa’s last wild rivers.
