Nathaniel Spring (born 1971) is a British conservationist and explorer. He currently works for the Earthwatch Institute in

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, where he is Senior Research Director. Spring studied marine biology at

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. Since then he has been involved in a variety of expeditions, many of which are related to his work at Earthwatch. In 2004 he rowed 3,000 miles across the

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and has also raced 550 km across

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by bike, kayak and on foot. Most recently, Spring was part of a three-man research expedition to

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in 2009. In addition to climbing and exploring the area the team collected plants, contributing to a botanical inventory in East Greenland which was initiated in the 1960

Several new peaks were recorded, one of which was named after Spring's paternal grandfather, Kenneth Spring. Spring lives in

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