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Name

Clare Seligman

Degree

BA (awarded 2003)

Occupation

Clare Seligman completed a degree in CCS, after a career as a concert horn player. Since graduation, she's worked documenting two polar expeditions. She writes: "Prior to commencing the CCS studies mid way through 2001, I had started a degree in the 1970.s at Macquarie University. Then the department I entered was called .Behavioural Sciences. and in some ways it was the forerunner of today.s CCS, offering courses such as .The Imaginative World of Man.. However I did not complete the degree at that time due to a work offer in the music world. I finally returned to Macquarie after a long absence, with the University kindly accrediting to me some points earned decades back. As I had meantime spent many years in passionate pursuit of my hobbies: ocean yachting, alpine skiing and endurance horse riding, it was perfect to receive appropriate scholarly training in the art of understanding and describing some of the exotic places and people met in doing this. I have now visited both polar regions, and largely due to the confidence given to me by my studies in your department, I felt able to sell my ability to assist others in documenting their adventurous work in both the Antarctic and the Arctic. One activity involved a scientific study based mainly on the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Oceanic Area while in the other zone, the job was to report on the delivery of amphibious rescue craft to seasonally icebound oil rigs in the northern Beaufort Sea during the Alaskan winter. It has now become a continuing challenge convincing people to take me along to write up what they are doing in interesting locations, resulting in not only the polar trips but also a short stay with a team organising on line education for indigenous communities in the Tanami Desert..

Claire hopes to be heading off to a dinosaur dig later in 2007.

Click on the thumbnails on your right to see a slideshow of Claire's travels.