Mike Haynes
Founder Member
Mike's first expeditions was in 1979, with the British Schools Exploring Society, surveying a mountain top ice cap in the Lyngen peninsula, North of the Arctic Circle in Norway, and then went further North in 1983, with the Polar Exploration Group, carrying out geological studies in Svalbard.
Mike is a Founder Member of the Arctic Research Group. He was a member of the Groups’ 1990 expedition to the Rindersbukta area of Van Mijenfjord as Base Camp Manager, where he also operated a Meteorological Station and assisted in the field with the other scientific projects.
Mike was also a member of the Arctic Research Group expeditions to Svalbard in 1993 and 1996 in similar roles, also completing a Human Geography study in Longyearbyen in 1993.
Mike’s other passion is racing sailing and he has been a qualified National Race Officer and includes the 2012 Olympics & Paralympics as well as Cowes Week 2017 among events where he has been an official.
Mike returned to the Arctic leading a project in the 2019 expedition to Bockfjord to evaluate the use of drones to collect detailed imagery with positional data for use in scientific research and also supported a Pingo studies project on the 2023 expedition to Recherchefjord. Mike has a BSc in Mining Geology and is a Member of the Arctic Club.
