Grant Redvers led the Tara Arctic Expedition from 2006 to 2008 - an ice-locked polar drift in the schooner TARA, the same vessel as the late Sir Peter Blake's environmental exploration schooner SeaMaster. The expedition, echoed the Arctic voyage of Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen in 1893 aboard the Fram, and had a rotating complement of 20 scientists from France, Estonia, Norway, Russia and the USA. Data collected during the voyage has since been incorporated into global climate models. Grant's background is in environmental science and sailing, and he studied Environmental and Marine Science at The University of Auckland. He published Tara Arctic: A New Zealander's Epic Voyage (Fraser Books) in 2010.