Jon Tucker - Builder/Deputy Field Leader

Jon Tucker is a kiwi, now living in Tasmania, and is one of the two builders in the team, primarily adding an accommodation room and field lab to the small 'Sorensen' field hut (out of sight across the ridge from Mawsons hut). The team is camping in tents and eagerly anticipates the chance to move 'indoors". Any remaining time will be spent on continued maintenance work to the older historic structures. Jon is a former college history teacher come adventurer who has sailed over 80,000 miles aboard his traditional ketch - the only home he and his wife Barbara have ever owned. Together they raised and partly home schooled five sons who are now scattered around the globe adventuring on the high seas. Jon's interest in Cape Denison began two years ago when he hitched a ride with two of his boys as cabin boy on a sailing trip from Hobart to Mawson's hut on his eldest son's tiny homebuilt yacht, Snow Petrel. He is looking forward to the challenge of working in the windiest place on the planet.