Jim Thompson, a former US Navy Tactical Air Controller,
is a commercial multi engine pilot and conducts airborne thermography
from his hot air balloon "Flourish." He is also an advanced
open water instructor and a master scuba diver.
He retired from over 25 years of owning a nationwide disaster
restoration company which specialized in cleaning up after industrial
catastrophes and now devotes his time to infrared research using
thermography to locate caves and working on his captains license
at sea. He also works as an instructor at a dive shop in
Clearwater, Florida.
Jim's papers into thermographic research are published
in the US and abroad. As a member of the NASA
Atacama Desert Science Team 2006, he conducted extensive thermographic
research of
cave entrances in the Atacama Desert Chile. He was on the
2007 and 2008 Spaceward
Bound Expeditions to the Mojave Desert in California, NASA Spaceward
Bound Australian Outback
Science Expedition 2009, and was
the expedition
photographer for Pavilion
Lake
2008. He taught at at the International Space University, ACCESS
MARS program, 2009 at NASA Ames and both NASA Mojave Desert
Science Expeditions 2010 and 2010-1. I
He is the chairman of the Florida Chapter of The
Explorers Club, a lifetime
member of the National Speleological Society, a Fellow of
the Royal Geographical Society, and CEO of Out There Expeditions
LLC www.outthereexpeditions.com.
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