Flight over Pah Pah Range, Western Nevada (photo: Tom Dietz)

Flight over Pah Pah Range, Western Nevada (photo: Tom Dietz)

Tom Dietz, Giza Pyramids, Egypt

Tom Dietz, Giza Pyramids, Egypt

Jimmy Friedman teaching self defense seminar at a woman's college in Varanasi

Jimmy Friedman teaching self defense seminar at a woman's college in Varanasi

Nor Cal Chapter members Liz Taylor and her mom, Sylvia Earle

Nor Cal Chapter members Liz Taylor and her mom, Sylvia Earle

Flight to Arches National Park (photo: T. Deitz)

Flight to Arches National Park (photo: T. Deitz)

Ryan Weed leading a Chapter Field Trip at the UC Berkeley Nuclear Research Facility

Ryan Weed leading a Chapter Field Trip at the UC Berkeley Nuclear Research Facility

Tom Deitz, winter stargazing

Tom Deitz, winter stargazing

Jimmy Friedman in Yangon, Myanmar teaching self defense seminar

Jimmy Friedman in Yangon, Myanmar teaching self defense seminar

Satya Gontcho a Gontcho, Chapter Vice Chair, with Jimmy Friedman and Sylvia Earle

Satya Gontcho a Gontcho, Chapter Vice Chair, with Jimmy Friedman and Sylvia Earle

Camp and Hut, Antarctica, Southern Cross Expedition, 1899 (photo: William Colbeck, attributed)

Camp and Hut, Antarctica, Southern Cross Expedition, 1899 (photo: William Colbeck, attributed)

Tom Dietz collecting microbes in Yellowstone National Park

Tom Dietz collecting microbes in Yellowstone National Park

Penola Strait, Antarctica (photo: Liam Quinn)

Penola Strait, Antarctica (photo: Liam Quinn)

The Explorers Club is a multidisciplinary, professional society dedicated to advancement of field research, scientific exploration, and the ideal that it is vital to preserve the instinct to explore. The Club's goals in research, education, and public service include the orientation of young people toward careers in field science and engineering, and the encouragement of scientific exploration of land, sea, the air, and space, with the emphasis on the physical, natural, and biological sciences. As a Chapter of the "World Center for Exploration" we serve as a common bond and meeting point for explorers and field scientists world-wide, thus continuing the early goals laid down by our founders in 1904.