Photograph by National Geographic Traveller
Jamie Lafferty
In the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Jamie was selected to take part in the Travel Volunteer Project, an initiative designed to encourage tourists to return to Japan. The project saw him visit all of Japan s 47 prefectures in just 100 days, blogging and taking photographs as he went. He has since returned to the country several times for a variety of projects, most recently with his brother whom he managed to narrowly avoid killing with a katana.
Matthew Joslin
Matthew has been passionate about Japan ever since he started learning the language and immersing himself in the pop culture in his early teens. Having lived and studied in Tokyo, travelled the country from top to bottom and chewed off many an ear about the diverse wonders of off-the-beaten-track Japan, he currently leads on marketing and PR at the Japan National Tourism Organisation.
January 22, 2021
Jim Steenburgh isn’t your typical storm-chaser. The atmospheric scientist isn’t after Midwest tornadoes nor supercell thunderstorms.
Steenburgh chases snowstorms.
Peering inside a snowstorm
Growing up in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, he remembers always watching for snow. As a snow scientist at the University of Utah and an avid Alpine, Nordic, and backcountry skier, Steenburgh continues that quest today.
Steenburgh and other NSF-funded principal investigators led the Ontario Winter Lake-effect Systems project. Using ground-based and airborne instruments, including Dopplers on Wheels, the University of Wyoming’s King Air Research Aircraft, mobile weather balloons, and snowfall measurement systems, they probed the inner workings of blizzards around Lake Ontario.