The Team

The expedition members, Thomas Sjogren (born in Sweden, now resident of US) and Tina Sjogren (born in former Czechoslovakia, political refugee in Sweden from the age of nine, now resident in the US) are not new to expeditions.

The Arctic expedition is their 9th expedition only in the past 5 years. T&T have earlier crossed jungles, sailed oceans and climbed for several years in the Himalayan mountains. "We love what we do and our ultimate dream is to go to space. Deep space.'

Thomas has an education in Business, Tina in Natural Sciences. To fund their explorations, they early built a very down-to-earth enterprise in Sweden (household tissue delivery).

Today, their acquired interest in technology brings with them unusual communication systems to be tried at the far ends of the world.

Their main sponsor is Ericsson (Mobile systems). The guest sponsors are most often specialized technology companies such as The Swedish Space Corporation, Bath Ironwork Advanced Technology Labs of United States and Compaq. T&T are based in NYC, USA.

Other team members work at "base stations" in both Europe and the United States. These companies and individuals help programming software, solve technological emergencies, research equipment and operate the information flow from the expedition. The studies and expeditions are featured in detail on ExplorersWeb.