Historically, anthropology has helped us understand our time here on Earth. Space anthropology extends that understanding beyond our terrestrial home.

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 [...]

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.

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.

September 07, 2024 at 5:30 pm Quarterly Meeting

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

“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.

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 [...]