The Explorers Club

The Explorers Club Founded in NYC in 1904, TEC promotes the scientific exploration of land, sea, air and space by supporting research and education in all aspects of science.
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Founded in New York City in 1904, The Explorers Club promotes the scientific exploration of land, sea, air, and space by supporting research and education in the physical, natural and biological sciences.

Join us for Dispatches from Space! 🛰️👩‍🚀All members are invited to join us for an extraordinary edition of Dispatches fr...
06/17/2026

Join us for Dispatches from Space! 🛰️👩‍🚀

All members are invited to join us for an extraordinary edition of Dispatches from the Field — The Explorers Club’s signature global program designed to transcend geographical boundaries, connect our international chapters, and forge deep bonds across our global community. For this special broadcast, we are expanding our reach past terrestrial limits to connect live with Dr. Jessica Meir — NASA astronaut, marine biologist, and a proud member of The Explorers Club.

We are checking in directly with Dr. Meir during her long-duration mission in low Earth orbit, where she will join us live from the International Space Station. Dr. Meir will dive into the core philosophy of discovery, the extreme limits of human performance, and how this unique vantage point reshapes our understanding of modern exploration.

Note: this live event is members-only, and only active members will be permitted into the call. A recorded version of the interview will be published after the event.

Active Members can register for Dispatches using the events feature in the Members Only App.

See you out there! 💫

📸: NASA

Do you know an explorer changing the world that the world needs to know about?Each year, The Explorers Club recognizes f...
06/16/2026

Do you know an explorer changing the world that the world needs to know about?

Each year, The Explorers Club recognizes fifty extraordinary people changing the world through their science and exploration work through The Explorers Club 50. Nominations for the Class of 2027 are now open!

The Explorers Club 50 honorees’ work ranges from classic “boots in the mud” exploration to the communication of science and research through art and activism. They are biodiversity conservationists, glaciologists, deep-sea microbiologists, archaeologists, systems designers, artists and storytellers, educators, community-builders and more.

Nominate an explorer today at 50.explorers.org/nominate

📸: Jeff Kerby, EC50 Class of 2025 of Aká Simonsen, EC50 Class of 2026,

06/15/2026

Join The Explorers Club on Monday, June 15th, to hear an innovative and richly illustrated account of the Lewis and Clark expedition — from award-winning author Craig Fehrman, as part of the release of his groundbreaking book This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark.

Exploration is often about navigating people as much as rugged landscapes, a lesson Lewis and Clark had to learn again and again during their famous expedition. One of the best examples — and certainly the most exciting — centered on the captains’ tense encounter with the Lakota.

In this lecture, which will showcase new documents, old maps, historic paintings, and material objects from Native culture, Craig Fehrman will zoom in on this four-day meeting and reconstruct it from both the American and Lakota points of view. Both sides were well armed, and both sides wanted something from the other, starting with the explorer’s most important currency, information.

Fehrman will draw on oral history, the captains’ million-word journals, and his own incisive analysis to show how and why this encounter spiraled into a dangerous, high-stakes problem for both parties — and how, in the end, a leader named Black Buffalo was the person to solve it.





This in-person event at the Explorers Club Headquarters will include an audience Q&A. Copies of Craig’s book will be available for purchase before and after the presentation.

From orbit to action 💫🛰️🌳Lola Fatoyinbo, EC50 Class of 2026, is a space ecologist, and former scientist who aims to stu...
06/12/2026

From orbit to action 💫🛰️🌳

Lola Fatoyinbo, EC50 Class of 2026, is a space ecologist, and former scientist who aims to study and protect the world’s most vulnerable coastal ecosystems and tropical forests. She combines satellite, airborne, and field measurements to map ecosystem extents, carbon stocks and change, especially in regions where on-the-ground access is limited. As an expert in mangrove ecosystems, she has characterized their vulnerability and response to disturbances from land use and climate change worldwide. With expertise in field ecology and satellite technology, she has developed new remote sensing instruments and innovative applications of satellite data for carbon monitoring, coastal resilience and biodiversity conservation. Through science, storytelling, and exploration, Lola redefines how we see our planet from above, championing ecosystems and communities that are essential to Earth’s resilience.

“It’s challenging to manage what you cannot measure, yet many communities most vulnerable to environmental change lack access to the data and tools they need. I try to address this by making the satellite data that is needed to support conservation and environmental justice accessible and usable for people on the ground.” - Lola Fatoyinbo

📸: Tom Saater

Swimming in Style ✨Last Friday, the greatest stage in exploration transformed into a runway to celebrate ’s fashions in ...
06/10/2026

Swimming in Style ✨

Last Friday, the greatest stage in exploration transformed into a runway to celebrate ’s fashions in its first ever fashion show.

Memoria del Litoral is a collection rooted in the living knowledge of iraca palm weaving — a craft carried for generations by the artisan women of Usiacurí, a small community on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, in the department of Atlántico, close to where the land dissolves into the sea. The collection was created in collaboration with Marelys Escalante, master weaver and leading expert in iraca palm craftsmanship from Usiacurí.

View more photos from the fashion show and all of World Oceans Week 2026 at the link in our bio or explorers.org/wow-2026-photos

On the Cusp of Communicating with Whales 🐋 Tonight, for World Oceans Day, of and Dr. César Rodríguez Garavito of will...
06/08/2026

On the Cusp of Communicating with Whales 🐋

Tonight, for World Oceans Day, of and Dr. CĂŠsar RodrĂ­guez Garavito of will discuss what it might mean for humanity to one day understand another species, examining the implications for animal intelligence, Indigenous perspectives, conservation, and our evolving relationship with life in the ocean.

Exploring one of the most ambitious scientific discoveries of our time, Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) brings together biologists, linguists, roboticists, and artificial intelligence experts working to understand what animals are saying to each other. Using advanced sensing systems and machine learning, CETI scientists are making significant progress decoding the communication of s***m whales. CETI’s goal is for its findings to contribute to further protections for whales and marine life and to carry on the legacy of the “Save the Whales” movement bringing new human understanding to the natural world around us.

Recognizing that understanding another species raises profound ethical questions, CETI and legal scholars from New York University School of Law’s More‑Than‑Human Life (MOTH) Program formed a collaboration to publish on the Legal Impact of AI-Assisted Studies of Animal Communication and explore how CETI’s findings can contribute to legal protections for oceans and whales. CETI also supported MOTH’s efforts to establish ethical and legal guardrails for the emerging field of interspecies communication.

Learn more about this celebration at the link in our bio 🔗

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What did Ulrike and Aaron agree on? What made Jasmin laugh? What made Edward smile? How does the great Sylvia Earle capt...
06/05/2026

What did Ulrike and Aaron agree on? What made Jasmin laugh? What made Edward smile? How does the great Sylvia Earle capture an audience?

Answer these questions and so many more by watching the World Oceans Week recordings, now available at the link in our bio 🔗

06/04/2026

Oceans Week Thursday will highlight some of the vast technological innovations shaping the ocean and ocean exploration, from AI to the deep sea.

ďż˝ Thursday
5:00 pm – Smart Seas

Large language model artificial intelligence systems are shaping the modern world – hear from Chris Verlinden, Senior Scientist and Chief Technology Officer at Applied Ocean Sciences, Paul Woods, Chief Innovation Officer at Global Fishing Watch, Liz Suter, from the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science, David N. Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Bioethics at Columbia University, and Aaron Hartmann of the Perry Institute for Marine Science – on how artificial intelligence is already impacting ocean restoration and conservation.
6:30 pm – Don Walsh Chronicles

Our annual program in honor of the first to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, ocean pioneer and Rolex legend Don Walsh. This year’s edition dives into the fascinating and unexpected intersections of art and marine science. Featuring underwater storytelling from Richard Vevers, Founder of The Ocean Agency who was featured in the Netflix documentary Chasing Coral, Brad Fox, author of The Bathysphere Book, Hans Walters, shark expert and researcher with the New York Aquarium, and moderated by Susan Casey, author of The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean.

06/04/2026

Oceans Week Thursday will highlight some of the vast technological innovations shaping the ocean and ocean exploration, from AI to the deep sea.

🌊 Thursday
5:00 pm – Smart Seas

Large language model artificial intelligence systems are shaping the modern world – hear from Chris Verlinden, Senior Scientist and Chief Technology Officer at Applied Ocean Sciences, Paul Woods, Chief Innovation Officer at Global Fishing Watch, Liz Suter, from the Institute for Ocean Conservation Science, David N. Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Bioethics at Columbia University, and Aaron Hartmann of the Perry Institute for Marine Science – on how artificial intelligence is already impacting ocean restoration and conservation.
6:30 pm – Don Walsh Chronicles

Our annual program in honor of the first to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, ocean pioneer and Rolex legend Don Walsh. This year’s edition dives into the fascinating and unexpected intersections of art and marine science. Featuring underwater storytelling from Richard Vevers, Founder of The Ocean Agency who was featured in the Netflix documentary Chasing Coral, Brad Fox, author of The Bathysphere Book, Hans Walters, shark expert and researcher with the New York Aquarium, and moderated by Susan Casey, author of The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean.

Walking in an ocean wonderland 💙🎶Whales sing, are you listening?In the sea, fishies glistenA beautiful sightWe’re happy ...
06/04/2026

Walking in an ocean wonderland 💙🎶

Whales sing, are you listening?
In the sea, fishies glisten
A beautiful sight
We’re happy tonight,
Walking in an ocean wonderland

Come visit our Headquarters for an undersea oasis! Featuring exhibits by .ocean and more! These exhibits are only available for viewers through Friday.

’s fashions will come to life on Friday for our first ever fashion show! Enjoy fine fashion, food, and festivities and send off the tenth annual World Oceans Week in style.

Get tickets at explorers.org

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