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The
Explorers Club is an international multidisciplinary
professional society dedicated to the advancement
of field research and the ideal that it is vital
to preserve the instinct to explore. Since its
inception in 1904, the Club has served as a meeting
point and unifying force for explorers and scientists
worldwide.
The
Club provides assistance in expedition planning,
awards fieldwork grants to scientists, writers, and
photographers, and at our famed annual dinners, honors
accomplishments in exploration. But probably the
most powerful resource available to those who join
the Club is fellowship with other members--a global
network of expertise, experience, technology, industry,
and support. The Explorers Club actively encourages
public interest in exploration and the sciences through
its public lectures program, publications, travel
program, and other events. The Club also maintains
Research Collections, including a library and map
room, to preserve the history of the Club and to
assist those interested and engaged in exploration
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Announcements
Canadian members wishing to add news, events and announcements, to the Canadian Chapter site, please contact our webmaster! |
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DOCUMENTING THE ART OF EXPLORATION - The Third Annual Explorers Club Film Festival at the Arts and Letters ClubMarch 25 and 26, 2011, Toronto, Ontario
Time for the Third Annual Explorer’s Club Film Festival in Toronto! We are looking forward to building on the success of the Canadians Chapter’s first two festivals. This year’s programme is already shaping up to be a doozy.
On the Friday night we will be screening two world premieres—one from Les Stroud’s new series Beyond Survival and another from Peter Rowe’s new series, Alien Invaders. On the Saturday morning we’ll be screening Andrew Gregg’s Remembrance Day special, We Will Remember Them. And on Saturday night Meagan McGrath will be share her experiences in the Antarctic as our guest speaker at the annual festival dinner. |
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Many of our members in British Columbia are aware of the Enbridge Pipeline plans for shipping oil across to Kitimat and through the fragile Great Bear Raincoast area, one of our planets last standing old growth temperate rainforests. The value of this area as a carbon sink is incalculable, and the potential for environmental disaster is huge.
Thank you to Jim Allan MI'97 for bringing this video to our attention at Saltspring '10 and to Ian McAllister and Pacific Wild for their hard work in this initiative. |
Oil in Eden: The Battle to Protect Canada's Pacific Coast from Pacific Wild on Vimeo. |
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River Runner
Member Brett Rogers' river expeditions were recently featured in a National Geographic Traveler Magazine interview. |
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The Canadian Chapter Annual event will be held in Toronto ON, on Oct 30, 2010. Two Médaille Stefansson Medals will be awarded at the event. |
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| Dr. Luisa Maffi will be presenting the keynote speeach at Interdependent Diversities, a two day conversation on the relationship between Language, Culture, and Ecology, presented by the Trace Foundation in New York, Sept 24-25. Visit www.trace.org for further information on the event. |
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George Kourounis is featured in the latest edition of the Ripley's Believe It Or Not annual book. Specifically, his Indonesian adventure where he took a small rubber raft out onto the world's largest lake of sulphuric acid. The crater lake at Kawah Ijen volcano in east Java is extremely acidic (ph of 0.5), strong enough to dissolve metal.
George is also being featured in the brand new History Channel 2 hour special entitled Gates of Hell. The program investigates numerous places on Earth that historically have been considered to be actual portals to the underworld. His expedition to the Erta Ale lava lake in Ethiopia's Danakil Desert is one of the places featured in the program and is intermixed with on-camera interviews.
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| Call for Nominations! For the 2011 Explorers Club dinner... Deadline is September 3, 2011. Please see attached document for more information a nd descriptions! Click HERE |
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Passing of Brigadier General Keith Greenaway FI'52.
It is with great sadness we relay news of the passing of one of our earlier and very experienced Explorer members...
For the full story, please see the Globe and Mail article here.... |
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| Will you be in New York May 17, 2010? Canadian Fellow Catherine Hickson will be talking about Mt. St. Helens... For more information go to the main site at Headquarters, or click here... |
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Ham Shack Revival - K2XP
HQ is reviving the Ham Radio Station!
The poseurs are, left to right:
Scott Hamilton, FR '82, N1VFW; James Enterline, FE '72, KV2Z; Lorie
Karnath, President, working on getting her Tech license, Jennifer Arnold, MN '97, N2NIO. |
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New Website Launch!!
Please check out the NEW WEBSITE from Headquarters!! Please be patient as new functionalities are introduced.
Come check out the bright new face of The Explorers Club! |
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Extension!!
We need nominations for the Canadian Awards and Honours Committee! We have pushed back the deadline to July 1, 2010. Please get your nominations in...
Please click here for the application form (RTF format) |
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Meagan Made it!!
Megan McGrath FI'07 made it to the South Pole on the first unsupported Canadian solo ski trek! For more information please visit her site at:
www.meaganmcgrathadventurer.com/
More information can be found at Science North |
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Prepare Yourselves....
DOCUMENTING THE ART OF EXPLORATION II
The Arts and Letters Club and Explorers Club Second Annual Film Festival
Friday March 5 and Saturday March 6, 2010
Toronto’s historic Arts and Letters Club
2010 Film Festival Program
2010 Film Festival Poster (2.85MB PDF)
2010 Flyer (141kB PDF)
2010 Flyer (2.54MB PDF)
PLEASE CIRCULATE FLIERS AND POSTERS TO THOSE WHO MAY BE INTERESTED. THIS IS A FABULOUS EVENT THAT SHOULDN'T BE MISSED! |
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HQ Callling all Ham Radio Operators!
An effort is being made to revive the Club's Ham Shack. If you have any spare equipiment or a Ham Radio License, please let them know!
Bill Vartorella KJ4ORX/Extra (globebiz at camden.net)
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Your Canadian Chapter Chair really applauds this effort... we depended on the Ham Radio network during our high latitude voyages. ...amanda... KG6GEQ |
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Coming Soon... Compass 2010! Please make your reservations now for the Pacific Northwest Chapter's annual gathering on San Juan Island!
April 22, 23, & 24... please contact Lynn Danaher. Information available if you click this link. |
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Our LOG entries need YOU! If you're doing or have done something
interesting in the way of exploration, lemme know so I can highlight and
headlight it in the LOG.
Cheers - Jason ComCzar
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The Explorers’ Club Annual Dinner (ECAD) is one of the more memorable events that you are likely to experience and I am sure that this year’s event will be most stunning. If you have never attended an ECAD, you should consider making it a priority. We are again intent on organizing a Canadian Table. We also are open to dinner or drinks out of Friday evening. If you wish to join a Canadian Table at ECAD, contact Barry or Amanda Glickman (Barry or Amanda at paparumba.org).
This year it will be the 106th ECAD and its focus will be “On the Cusp of Infinity: Exploring the Universes out there”. For more information visit www.explorers.org. Note that seating is limited. |
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| The Exploresr Club New York Call for Nominations! Click on the Logo for more information..... |
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Announcing Cory Trépanier's (MI'09) new website!
http://www.visionsofourland.com |
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Feature Members |
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(Ret) Tim Leslie FI' 04, high altitude flight and space
research at Canada's National Research Council
Photo credit: Bob Fassold |
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Louis Fortier FI'08
Oceanographer and Order of Canada recipient, Louis Fortier of Université Laval explores the changing Arctic Ocean on board the Canadian Research Icebreaker Amundsen
Récipiendaire de l'Ordre du Canada, l'océanographe Louis Fortier de l'Université Laval explore l'Océan Arctique en mutation à bord du brise-glace de recherche canadien Amundsen |
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Robert
Bateman MI'84, Canada's pre-eminent, internationally
renowned wildlife artist and conservationist
Photo Credit: Birgit Freybe Bateman |
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Roberta L. Shaw FI'03, of the Royal Ontario Museum in Theban
Tomb #89 at Luxor, Egypt |
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Prof.
Phil Currie FI'02, professor of palaeontology at
the University of Alberta, TIME listed Phil as one
of Canada's top five contemporary explorers
Photo Credit: Jason Schoonover |
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Dr. Phil Nuytten FI'85, piloting one of his submersibles "DeepWorker 2000" during the
'Sustainable Seas' Project. The Globe and Mail described Phil as one of the top ten most influential Canadians |
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Captain Meagan McGrath FI'07
Here, on the summit of Mount Everest prior to
rescuing a fellow climber suffering from cerebral edema. Meagan received The
Explorers Club's President's Award for Heroism and Altruism. |
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