He has traveled to all “eight” continents and over 60 countries. He has worked and or lived in eight of them ranging from archeology in France, wine harvesting in Germany, picking oranges in Greece, movie extra in China, to house pianist in a restaurant in Israel.
However, as Antarctica is the most remote, coldest, and most harsh continent on Earth, for him going there to conduct research is like going to another planet and exploring undiscovered country.
TRAVELS
1980: U.S. & Canada by bus
1981: Mexico
1982-1983: 16 months in Europe & Middle East worked in the wine harvest in Germany, 2nd century Galo/Roman archeology in France, orange harvest in Greece, dishwasher and pianist at a restaurant in Israel, flower bulb factory worker in the Netherlands
1985: Alaska, Japan, and China, movie extra in China
1988: Peru, Ecuador, & Galapagos
1989-1990: 8 months in Central America- starting in northern Mexico, traveling by bus into Belize, spent 4 months in Guatemala, and finished in Honduras and Nicaragua
1995: Ecuador
1998: France and Germany
1999: Mexico
Argentina: 14 visits between 1997 & 2014 — Highlights include: Buenos Aires, Patagonia (El Chalten, glaciers), Iguazu Falls (largest waterfalls in the western hemisphere), NW Argentina including Mountains of 7 colors, visiting Bolivia, Mendoza wine country & Aconcagua (tallest mountain in the western hemisphere)
2013: India, Sri Lanka, Thailand
2014: Croatia, Budapest, Bosnia, Montenegro
2015: Galapagos
2016: Turkey and Greece
2017: Nicaragua
2018: Central America
2018: Lessor Antilles
2019-2020: Israel, Jordan, Egypt
2020-2021: lived in Mexico for three months
2021-2022: five weeks in Yucatan (got certified for scuba diving)
2023: Poland and Lviv, Ukraine
2024: Kyiv, Ukraine (7 weeks)
Steve lived and or worked in France (archeology), Germany (wine picking), Greece (orange picking), Netherlands (flower bulb factory work), Ukraine (waiting for Martina), and Israel (dishwasher and house pianist in restaurant).
He has given science talks in the U.K., France, Italy, Spain, Norway, Austria, Russia, and Israel.
STEVE WAS AN ON-ICE ANTARCTIC SCIENTIST ON THREE EXPEDITIONS
2005: over sea ice multi-channel seismic survey, camp located on the sea-ice Southern McMurdo Sound
2007: Sedimentologist on drilling project (ANDRILL), worked at McMurdo Station
2008: Co-leader on over sea-ice multi-channel seismic survey, camp was located about 10 km offshore of New Harbor and Taylor Valley.
In 2010, he was part of an IODP expedition 318, that obtained sedimentary cores from off the coast of Wilkes Land, East Antarctica.
SELECTED SCIENCE EXPEDITIONS
1994: Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 150X, Cape May, NJ
1996: Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 150X, Bass River, NJ
1999: Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 150X, Ocean View, NJ
2000: Ocean Drilling Program expedition 189 Tasman Sea
2001: Offshore NY Bight, Seismic and Coring expedition
2002: Stewart Island, New Zealand
2002: Stratigraphy in Chile
2003: Hudson River Estuary coring expedition (co-team leader)
2005: Science Antarctic Seismic Expedition, on ice scientist
2007: Science Antarctic Drilling Expedition, on ice stratigrapher
2008: Science Antarctic Seismic Expedition (co leader)
2010: Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 318, Wilkes Land, East Antarctica, micropaleontologist
2017: International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 371, Exploring Zealandia, sedimentologist
2022: International Ocean Discovery Program Expedition 393, Mid Atlantic Transect, sedimentologist