Travis Booms

Travis is an Alaska-based polar avian ecologist with over 25 years' experience conducting wildlife research in Greenland, Alaska, and Canada. He is a globally recognized expert on the largest and northernmost of all falcons, the Gyrfalcon. He studies a wide diversity of wildlife species, but his primary research expertise is raptor ecology. He is currently a full-time research wildlife biologist for the State of Alaska, where he answers important conservation questions on a variety of bird and mammal species. Travis deeply enjoys sharing his knowledge and passion for polar wildlife with others and hopes to enrich others 'experiences by sharing in adventurous, experiential learning together. When not working, Travis leads an outdoors lifestyle exploring Alaska's remote, wild landscapes. He believes less is more and lives in a simple, one-room cabin north of Fairbanks without running water.