Introducing Adventure Science athlete, Helene Dumais

Occupation: Personal Trainer, Health Coach, Massage Therapist.

Athletic: Elite Obstacle Course Racer and Trail Runner.

Other: Author, Polar Hero Race Ambassador, GR10 Pyrenees and GR20 Corsica treks.

Biography:
Helene is many things, but especially: simple and real. Born 1980, 5’2’’, 120 lb., brown eyes and a big smile! As stated above, Elite trail runner, obstacle race athlete and nature lover. Certified Massage Therapist, Personal Trainer and Health Coach. Part-time philosopher, amateur anthropologist and wannabe prankster. My biggest passion: to express and promote the full individual human potential. World travels as a sommelier. 

200k Corsica trek
870k Pyrenees trek
Co-author Do You want to Look Good Naked?
58k Ultimate XC Quebec
50-miler North Face Endurance Challenge
50-miler Vermont
TransRockies Run 2011 Finisher
Spartan Race World Championship 2013 Elite Finisher

Introducing Adventure Science athlete, Winter Vinecki

Occupation:Founder of Team Winter, Student at Stanford University Online High School, Full Time Athlete with Fly Elite- Olympic Development Team Aerial Skiing

Athletics: Marathoner, National Triathlon Champion, 2018 Winter Olympic Hopeful Aerial Skiing, Elite Obstacle Course Racer

Other: Motivational Speaker, Blog Writer for Newton Running & Athleta, World Record Holder, “Youngest person to run a marathon on every continent” & “Youngest person to run 26.2 miles on Antarctica”, 2013 Female Winner of the “Toughest marathon in the World- The Inca Trail Marathon”, 2013 Spartan World Champion 19 & under, 2014 Jr. National Champion Aerials and 5th Place 2014 Jr. World Freestyle Championships.

Biography: 
Winter was born on December 18, 1998 in Grand Rapids Michigan.  She grew up in Gaylord Michigan and Salem, Oregon and now trains in Park City, Utah. After losing her Dad at the age of 9 to an aggressive form of prostate cancer, she formed teamwinter.org, a non-profit to raise money for prostate cancer research & awareness.  She’s raised over $400,000 toward that effort and counting. Winter began racing Triathlons at the age of 5 and completed her first Olympic triathlons at 9!  She went on to become the national ironkids champ for 2010 & 2011 and finished her third year as the official ambassador of the sport. She was the 2011 recipient of the Annika Inspiration Award.  At that event she met Aerial’s Olympian Emily Cook who convinced her to try out for the Fly Elite Freestyle Aerials team in Park City.  After a week-long camp, Fly Elite decided to sponsor Winter as a 2018 Olympic hopeful in Aerials Freestyle.   This was a significant change in Winter and her family’s lives because joining this team requires Winter to live in Park City Utah with a host family for the foreseeable future.  Winter’s Mom and 3 brothers live in Oregon and they are able to visit as often as possible at races across the country and brief periods of downtime between training sessions. Winter, now 14 years old is planning to race in dozens of events throughout 2013, she’ll be focused on freestyle aerials throughout the Winter as well as completing her world record marathon attempt by the end of the year.  She recently set a new world record as the youngest person to ever complete a marathon on Antarctica. She’ll also be racing in multiple running triathlon including the Xterra series.

Introducing Adventure Science athlete, Jane Davis

Occupation: Community Health Educator; Coach for Girls on the Run

Athletics: Ultra Endurance Runner

Biography: 
BSEd in School and Community Health from the University of Idaho and a MEd from Central Washington University. Completed two years of service as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi Southeast Africa working in Maternal Child Health and six months of service as a Crisis Corps Volunteer in Ghana, West Africa as an HIV/AIDS Trainer of trainers. Career has included working in the fields of mental health, family planning, substance use and abuse, and other health related subjects primarily focused on prevention. 

Jane has incorporated her love for the outdoors and running for over 20 years. In 2010 eight months after losing her husband to prostate cancer she ran her first Ultra stage race in Costa Rica as a way to find peace and healing. That was a turning point and the challenge of running ultras and being on the trails become a part of her lifestyle. Since that first race Jane has participated in ultras in Argentina, Canada, Kenya and the United States. Jane’s five year old daughter Jayna often accompanies her on her race travels and is her biggest cheerleader. In addition, Jane continues to run road races and is a Team Winter athlete as a way to raise funds and awareness regarding prostate cancer. Her love for the outdoors and the importance of maintaining our beautiful landscape for the generations that follow makes this project that much more intriguing. 

Introducing the Adventure Science team paramedic, Tyler Leblanc

Occupation: Registered Paramedic with the province of Alberta

Roles: Team Medic, Logistics

Experience:
8 years of Ground Ambulance experience with the city of Medicine Hat and Southern Alberta
8 Years of Flight experience flying critical care flights with both Fixed wing aircraft and Rotary aircraft within Southern Alberta/BC and Saskatchewan
Been a Member of the Adventure Science team since maiden voyage in 2008
Member of Canada Task Force 2 Heavy Urban Search and Rescue as both a Medical Specialist and a Technical Search Specialist. 
Additional training in Wilderness First Aid, Wilderness Advanced Life Support, Remote Medicine for the advanced provider,
High and Low Angle Rescue, Water Rescue, H2S, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Neonatal Resuscitation, International Trauma Life Support.
Teach Para medicine at the Medicine Hat College.
On several committees with Alberta College of paramedics (governing and regulations body of EMS in Alberta)

Introducing Adventure Science team member, Keith Szlater

Occupation: Service Manager, R&D Team Lead

Role: Base camp manager, Logistics, Risk management, Safety guru (keep these “nut bars” alive)

Experience:
-Calgary Search and Rescue
-Ground search and rescue
-Canada Task Force 2
-Heavy Urban search and rescue
-Alberta Cave Rescue
-Cave rescue
-Swift water rescue
-Rope Rescue level I
-Man Tracker level II
-Advanced navigation (map and compass)
-Wilderness First Aid
-Field Communications (VHF radios)
-Base camp setup

Introducing Adventure Science Athlete, Tim Puetz

Occupation: Biomedical Research, National Institutes of Health

Athletics: UltraRunner, Marathoner, Rock/Ice Climber

Other Info: Army Ranger, Long Range Reconnaissance and Surveillance Training; Wilderness EMT; Canadian Death Race; Grand Canyon: Rim to Rim to Rim

Biography:

Tim Puetz is a Presidential Management Fellow in the At-Large Program at the National Institutes of Health. Tim received his Master of Public Health in Behavioral Science and Certificates in Mental Health, Socio-contextual Determinants of Health, Global Complex Humanitarian Emergencies, and Human Rights from Emory University. He also has earned a Bachelor of Science in Physical Education and a Master of Science in Human Performance and Wellness from Pittsburgh State University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Biopsychology from the University of Georgia.

His scientific research has focused on the intersection of physiology and psychology, especially as it relates to the effects of physical activity on anxiety, depression, fatigue, and pain in patients with chronic disease. Tim has conducted research related to the effects of exercise on feelings of fatigue in cancer survivors, psychological outcomes associated with exercise during and after pregnancy, the effects of exercise on physiological tremor and neuroreflexes, and the effect of caffeine on pain perception. Tim has published over a dozen scientific papers and two book chapters in the area of physiological psychology.

His professional work experience includes teaching adapted physical education specializing in students with behavior and conduct disorder, serving in the United States Army as an officer in both the Medical Service Corps and Infantry to include a tour in Afghanistan, and working in non-profit organizations dedicated to armed conflict and mental health. Tim also has worked as a Program Evaluation and Management Specialist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Division of Strategic National Stockpile. He also has partnered with the Republic of Liberia’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare in conjunction with The Carter Center’s Mental Health Program to examine the accessibility of psychotropic medicines through the evaluation of the national pharmaceutical supply chain.

Introducing Adventure Science team member, Dr. Richard Rothaus

Occupation: Historian and Archaeologist.

Focus: Mission Planning, Logisitics, Data Collection and Processing

Biography: 
Richard Rothaus is President, Trefoil Cultural and Environmental, a private consulting firm that conducts historical and archaeological surveys for clients in a variety of industries. He is also a Research Associate, with the Center for Heritage Renewal, North Dakota State University. He has a PhD from The Ohio State University, and he was a university professor and administrator for over a decade before entering the private sector. Rothaus’ research has focused on the interaction of humans and the environment, and he is equally comfortable working at an archaeological survey or in the archives. His fieldwork has focused on large scale regional surveys, and he has conducted projects in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. His fieldwork career began with the Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia and the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey in Greece. Since those early years, Rothaus has had central roles in wide variety of projects including the environmental history of lakes in Minnesota, post-earthquake field surveys in Turkey and India, and recording vernacular architecture of the Northern Plains. He has expertise in GIS and Remote Sensing applications, and recently completed a LiDAR based predictive model for Voyageurs National Park. Rothaus met Donato while working on a tsunami project in Oman, and he has since had the pleasure of helping with several Adventure Science initiatives, including Caves of Montana, and the Musandam Oman Expedition. Much of his fieldwork is currently focused in North Dakota, where he is studying battlefields and peoples of the US-Dakota War (1862-1865) and assisting the University of North Dakota in a study of “Mancamps” in the Bakken oil patch. Rothaus has published a book and over twenty articles, and is the author of over 150 technical reports. When not driving all over the Northern Plains, he makes his home in Sauk Rapids, MN with his wife and young son (with two grown children living nearby).

Introducing Adventure Science founder, Dr. Simon Donato

Occupation: Director, Stoked Oats, Co-Creator/Host of Boundless TV, Founder ofAdventure Science

Athletics: Ultra-endurance athlete

Other Info: Undergrad at UWO – archaeology BAhon, w/ ecology minor; MSc UWO – invertebrate paleontology; PhD McMaster University – sedimentology, invertebrate ecology
Competed in races around the globe for over 12 years – including Eco Challenge 2001 – NZ, 2002 – Fiji

Founded the Canadian Adventure Racing Association in 2004
Founded the Boler Mountain Bike Centre 1994
Black Belt Kempo Karate
Ski Coach and Instructor

Biography: 
Fellow International 2009 of the Explorers Club, Dr. Simon Donato is an adventurer and ultra-endurance athlete, and the founder of Adventure Science. Formerly a geologist with Imperial Oil, he resigned in 2012 to pursue his passion for healthy living and adventure. He now spends his days running Calgary based Stoked Oats, writing articles and blogs for magazines including Canadian Running, Impact, and Breathe, and executing expeditions with Adventure Science. Along with Josh and Jordan of Eady Bros productions, he is the co-creator of BoundlessTV, which saw both he and Paul ‘Turbo’ Trebilcock compete in some of the planet’s toughest endurance events this past year. In just 18 weeks, they raced nearly 1000 km on land and water across four continents. In addition to founding Stoked Oats, Simon continues to run Adventure Science, a company that combines his love of scientific exploration and adventure, and has taken him to exotic locations around the globe in search of missing people, airplanes, and archaeological ruins. Adventure Science is, and always will be an impartial organization dedicated to scientific observation and discovery using scholars and athletes.

The Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star Two Seat Training Jet

 

Lockheed’s P-80 Shooting Star has its own special niche in USAAF/USAF history. From it evolved a lengthened-fuselage two-seat trainer version, designated originally TF-80C. The first of these flew on 22 March 1948. In addition to the fuselage ‘stretch’, a second cockpit in tandem was provided with dual controls, the transparent canopy was extended to cover both cockpits and the armament of the F-80 was deleted.

A total of 128 TF-80C were built before the designation was changed to T-33A in May 1949. Adopted as the USAF’s standard jet trainer, it remained in production for a further ten years. A total of 649 were also built for service with the US Navy and Marine Corps under the designation TV-2, later T-33B. Total production amounted to 5,691 aircraft (including those for the Navy): 1,058 for supply to friendly nations under the Military Assistance Program and the balance to the USAF. T-33A were also licence-built in Canada (656 as the Silver Star, with Rolls-Royce Nene engine) and Japan (210). Variants included small numbers modified as DT-33A drone directors and AT-33A armed close-support aircraft.

In the 1950s the cold war was escalating; the KGB had just been established and the Russians were gearing up to launch the Sputnik into orbit. Vietnam was split at the 17th parallel and McCarthy’s witch hunt had raised the ardor to a fevered pitch.

America was engaged in a race of military mite and super power status came with a focus on state of the art aircraft with superior handling and missile firing accuracy. Readiness was paramount and Lockheed’s T-33 was a front line training jet for advanced level Air Force pilots. Only a few trusted high level men where engaged in the secrecy of aircraft training, testing and development.

Steeves’ Story Confirmed

He returned to Los Angeles at one point, not as a celebrity but as a plaintiff against the Post and Henry Holt, claiming breach of contract. The suits were settled out of court.

Article: The Daily Iowan, Dec 27th, 1957

Steeves moved to Fresno, west of where he ejected, and in the following years, he flew over the Sierra again and again on his own, looking for any sign of the wreckage.

But on Oct. 16, 1965, he was killed when a private plane he was piloting crashed in Boise, Idaho.

Steeves’ story faded into obscurity until 1978 when rangers in Kings Canyon reported that Boy Scouts visiting from Los Angeles had found wreckage in the area where the pilot had ejected — the canopy of a T-33. It bore the serial number (52-92-32) of Steeves’ canopy. It was the vindication Steeves had sought for so long.

The rest of the aircraft was never found. One ranger theorized that it “could have gone out over the ocean” and crashed after Steeves bailed out.

Observer/Reporter – October 14, 1978
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