Adventurer Scaturro to Keynote STAFDA Phoenix Convention
Conservationist, geophysicist, and adventurer Pasquale Scaturro is set to keynote the 49th STAFDA Annual Convention and Trade Show, November 9-11, at the Phoenix Convention Center.
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Adventurer Pasquale Scaturro is set to keynote the 49th STAFDA Annual Convention and Trade Show, November 9-11, at the Phoenix Convention Center. |
Part Bear Grylls, part Indiana Jones, Scaturro will take attendees on an adventure down the full length of the Nile River as STAFDA’s general session keynote speaker, Monday, November 10. His presentation will be followed by a Q&A session moderated by 2025 STAFDA President Dale Hahs II.
As a mountain and river expedition leader, has explored the far reaches of the planet for more than 35 years. His exploits, including three Mount Everest summits and filmed adventures for the likes of ESPN, PBS, Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel, have taken him throughout North and South America, Africa, and the former Soviet Union.
A bush pilot in Namibia, Scaturro currently manages a wildlife conservation preserve there as well as geophysical oil and gas exploration and development projects.
The focus of Scaturro’s general session presentation will be his historic 114-day, 3,260-mile Nile First Descent Expedition. It was the first complete descent of the Blue Nile from its source high in the mountains of Ethiopia down the full length of the Nile River to its mouth at the Mediterranean Sea.
Registration for STAFDA’s Phoenix Convention & Trade Show opens Monday, June 23, at 8 a.m. CST from the members-only section of its website, stafda.org.
STAFDA’s host hotels, Sheraton Phoenix Downtown and Renaissance Phoenix Downtown, will also begin accepting reservations within STAFDA’s room block on June 23.
For more information on the STAFDA Convention & Trade Show or membership, please contact Catherine Usher, cusher@stafda.org, 262-784-4774 or 800-352-2981.