Relive an unforgettable night of discovery—scroll through our Annual Dinner photos and feel the Explorers Club spirit ignite your next adventure.

Welcome to your unofficial guide to the 2025 Explorers Club Annual Dinner (ECAD) festivities. This independently curated schedule highlights a wide range of events happening around ECAD [...]

Discover the remarkable resilience and rich traditions of the Inuit people of North America in this compelling exploration of their history, culture, and modern challenges. From surviving in one [...]

Jennifer Idol, also known as The Underwater Designer, is a trailblazing underwater photographer, designer, and author. With a passion for storytelling through vivid underwater imagery, she has [...]

Discover The Explorers Club's global chapters. Find regional contacts, websites, and social media links to connect with adventurers and scientists worldwide. Join our vibrant community dedicated [...]

For attendees at this year’s Lowell Thomas Annual Dinner, we’re thrilled to share a live gallery showcasing moments from the workshops, adventures, and the Gala event.

Mia McGuire is an explorer through and through, with a passion for discovering different cultures and the natural world. Since she was young, she’s been curious about what life is like beyond her [...]

Dr. Sharon (Shari) Wilcox is a cultural geographer and conservation social scientist working in wild cat conservation. She has dedicated her efforts to the study, conservation and restoration of [...]

Michael Satterfield is a dedicated explorer whose work spans photography, journalism, and storytelling. His passion for uncovering hidden histories has taken him across Central America and [...]

Join our Honorary Hosts—all recipients of the Club’s highest honor, The Explorers Medal—along with extraordinary explorers from around the world, to celebrate the 2024 Lowell Thomas Awardees.

Dr. Clark Wernecke is a true rockstar in the world of archaeology, captivating audiences with his extensive knowledge and infectious passion for human evolution. With over three decades of [...]

An explorer at heart, Dr. Bohacs has worked on six continents and in 42 countries. He’s a Life Fellow of the Explorers Club and has even collaborated with NASA on the Mars Rover project. His [...]

Dr. Scott Solomon is a biologist, professor, and science communicator at Rice University, where he teaches ecology, evolutionary biology, and scientific communication.

September 07, 2024 at 5:30 pm Quarterly Meeting

Shawn has traversed ancient ruins throughout Europe, shared tea with Bedouins in the Middle East, lived with indigenous tribes in the mountains of Central America, and explored Celtic passage [...]

Francisco Estrada Belli (Ph.D., Boston University), specializes in Maya archaeology, Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems.

Catherine Nixon Cooke is an award-winning author and speaker with an insatiable curiosity about the world's remote places and diverse cultures.

As an explorer and technologist, I've always had a passion for leveraging new technologies to share the natural world in innovative ways.

Bob has been exploring and adventuring around the world since 1973. His interest in Native American cultures led him on explorations in New York, Arizona, and Texas.

Please save Saturday, June 1st for our next Explorers Club quarterly meeting. It will be held at the Headliners Club in Austin, starting at 6:00 pm for cocktails followed by dinner and a program [...]

We are thrilled to announce that the profile of Andrés A. Ruzo, renowned geothermal scientist and Amazon conservationist, has been added to the Explorers Club Texas Chapter website. Ruzo's [...]

Andrés Ruzo is a geothermal scientist, conservationist, and science communicator, renowned for his work on the Boiling River in the Amazon.

We traveled to near the Arkansas border Sunday and then backtracked to Mt. Pleasant on eclipse day which seemed to be the best place to view.

Mary posing  with a giant pillbug (Bathynomus giganteus). It's an isopod crustacean distantly related to the garden pillbugs. Giant pillbugs live at 500 m or more in the Gulf of Mexico and [...]

Mary K. Wicksten is a professor of biology at Texas A&M University who specializes in the study of decapod crustaceans

Download the PDF Guides Here: Solar Eclipse Shoot Sheet Solar Eclipse Photography Notes SOLAR ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPHY NOTES APRIL 8, 2024 Prepared by: Joe Watson, April 3, 2024 DISCLAIMER: You are [...]

Allen Tuten, long a student of the history and culture of Alaskan native people, will share his knowledge and enthusiasm in his talk scheduled for Thursday, April 18, at 5 p.m. in the Union [...]

Ben Edelstein has just completed a 5 day guided jungle hike to Lost City in Columbia located 30 miles outside of Santa Marta.

The Texas Chapter of The Explorers Club has a long and illustrious history of embarking on daring expeditions to the farthest reaches of the globe. With a strong desire to learn and explore, [...]

The Texas Chapter of The Explorers Club is comprised of explorer members from the Texas region. The Chapter meets quarterly, often in Austin, Dallas and Houston and where the new discoveries take [...]

Calendar of Events

Victor is a Dallas native with an undergrad from Stanford and a master’s degree from MIT and Harvard who made his mark in equity investments prior to turning his attention to exploration.

Amundsen-Scott South Pole Winter Site Manager For A Historic Third Year: Previously Station Manager for: Wake Island, Ascension Island, Chugach Alaska Corporation, Camp Arifjan Kuwait, Shemya [...]

Brian Hanson, MED’84 has been an active member of The Explorers Club for 37+ years. In April of 2022, he completed his third and final year as a Director Emeritus. Brian was first elected [...]

The Texas Chapter of the Explorer Club is extremely fortunate to have Nancy McGee as the new Chair beginning 2020. Without debate, her previous term as Vice-Chair and Program Director was beyond [...]

Patrick Madden has been diving since 1968, becoming a Certified Master Instructor/Instructor Trainer. He is a retired 26-year Veteran of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and was the dive [...]

Joe Watson’s passion for new exploration of the very old has transported him to photograph, fly, dive, sail, study and write on five of the seven continents.

“My home is a Baylor-Norvell house of Rockport Texas which was built in 1868 and has a Texas Historical Marker. It sits on the ocean and as the plaque states, has survived many hurricanes. Its a [...]

The Arctic Cowboys They established new Amazon headwaters, then paddled the entire 4,000 mile length of the Amazon. Next, they become the first on the planet to paddle the entire 2,100 mile [...]

A succinct summary of the expedition’s major points including, project significance, objectives, results and any implications the discoveries may have on either the field of study and/or exploration.

Tales from the Explorers Club Texas Chapter

Bill is, by anyone’s standard, one of the leading deep cave explorers anywhere on the planet. His intrepid life has impelled him to lead many Flag Expeditions, achieve numerous new discoveries, [...]

West Hansen is a dedicated member of the Explorers Club Texas Chapter who always contributes invaluable insights, leadership, and inspiration on all occasions. Passionate, vocal, dynamic with [...]

The Texas Chapter of The Explorers Club is a thriving community of daring individuals motivated by an insatiable curiosity about the world around them. Our members come from all backgrounds and [...]

The Club is characterized by the great diversity of its members’ backgrounds and interests. The seven founding members included two polar explorers, the curator of birds and mammals at The [...]

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Living on the International Space Station, Space Walking, and Off Shore Sailing, Research Vessel Tour of Galveston Harbor, Marine Lab, Ship Simulator and much more Speaker, COL Michael Fossum, [...]

Bill Steele exploring caves in Texas World-renowned cave explorer Bill Steele is adding new passages to Texas maps, foot by foot In a dark tunnel near the entrance of Honey Creek Cave, Bill [...]

October 21 – 23, at Starbase in Boca Chica on the Texas-Mexico Border by Port Isabel, Hear Dr. Sam Patel, Senior Director of Operations (Explorer) tell the SpaceX story. Tour the manufacturing [...]

If you are unfamiliar Bracken Cave is the largest bat population, and one of the largest known concentrations of mammals in the world. Every summer 20 million Mexican free-tailed bats come to [...]

Speaker, Astronaut GEN. CHARLIE DUKE INVITATION to the Explorers Club Texas Quarterly Meeting New Braunfels on June 18, 2022 “Moon Walkers, Past and Future” Gen. Charlie Duke, Apollo [...]

Final Sign-up Deadline 1:00PM Wednesday March 23rd. You’re Invited to the Explorers Club Texas Quarterly Meeting in Austin on March 26th, 2022 “Extinction May Not Be Inevitable” Trained Dog and [...]

Attended by West Hansen, Lizet Alaniz, Ben Edelstein, Matt Lutz, Steve Tittle, Kiran Dix, and Jimmy Harvey. Enjoyed a lecture on exotic hallucinatory rituals from ayahuasca to frog licking, [...]

In November, West and Lizet Hansen arranged and sponsored a special Explorers Club Texas tour of the Texas State Capitol. The tour guide presented the history of the amazing capital structure [...]

See all the videos from World Oceans Week 2020 Ocean Art, Sharks, and all the oceans: Pacific, Atlantic, Atric, Antarctic, Indian, Southern. Learn about sustainable fishing and conservation. [...]

Dr. Tony Fiorillo, V.P. and Chief Curator of the Perot Museum led a tour at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose. We learned that there are literally thousands of tracks in the Paluzy River [...]

The Explorers Club Texas Chapter Winter Meeting February 15, 16 in Glen Rose, Tx. and Dallas, Tx $45 Cost for Sunday Lunch Meeting, Perot Museum, Dinosaur Valley State Park Register Here with [...]

Bill Steele (FE ’79) is busily organizing the Proyecto Espeleologico Sistema Huautla (PESH) Explorers Club Flag expedition. The expedition send-off party in Austin on Saturday evening, March 28, [...]

Public Lecture Series with Richard O. Prum What can explain the incredible diversity of beauty in nature? A celebrated Yale ornithologist turns to a neglected idea of Darwin’s for answers and [...]

Movie Cosmic Birth For millennia humans have looked up and admired the Moon. Between 1968 and 1972, the Apollo program brought twenty-four American astronauts into lunar orbit – twelve of whom [...]

I’ll find him for sure! Public Lecture Series with Daisuke Takahashi Three hundred years ago Daniel Defoe published a tale of perhaps the world’s most well-known castaway, Robinson Crusoe. [...]

Join The Explorers Club for an evening of food and fascinating discussion with the team studying an ambitious new mission to explore further than humanity has yet gone. The Interstellar Probe [...]

Three hundred years ago Daniel Defoe published a tale of perhaps the world’s most well-known castaway, Robinson Crusoe. Defoe’s famed novel is believed to be modeled after the epic story of the [...]

Don Walsh, Ocean Explorer Location: The Cow Library in the home of Harlan and Cathy Crow. Speaker: Captain Don Walsh, deep ocean explorer, U.S. Navy Capitan (Ret.), world leader in oceanographic [...]

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Exploring From The Lowest Crust Of The Ocean Floor, To The Highest Point On Land, To The Moon And Beyond.