The Explorers Club

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. Our headquarters is located at 46 East 70th Street in New York City."

Corporate Members Our Patrons of Exploration
 * Rolex Watch USA, Inc.
 * National Geographic Society
 * Robert H. Rose
 * Donald Segur
 * Michael W. Thoresen

Club Officials
Accessed April 2009:


 * President - Lorie Karnath
 * Honorary Chair - Sir Edmund Hillary
 * Honorary President - Don Walsh

Honorary Directors
 * Robert Ballard
 * George Bass
 * Eugenie Clark
 * Sylvia Earle
 * James M. Fowler
 * John Glenn, Jr.
 * Gilbert Grosvenor
 * Donald Johanson
 * Richard E. Leakey
 * Roland Puton
 * Johan Reinhard
 * George Schaller
 * Don Walsh

Board of Directors
 * Anne Doubilet
 * William Harte
 * Mark Kassner
 * Daniel Kobal
 * R. Scott Winters
 * Norman L. Baker
 * Jonathan M. Conrad
 * Constance Difede
 * Kristin Larson
 * Margaret Lowman
 * Josh Bernstein
 * Joseph Frey
 * Lorie Karnath
 * Gary Doc Hermalyn
 * William Vartorella

Contact

 * Web:

Related Sourcewatch articles

 * Stephen D. Nagiewicz - former executive director
 * Joseph D. Teplitz
 * Robert H. Whitby
 * Wade Davis
 * Ghillean Prance
 * Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation
 * Peter Knollenberg
 * George E. McCown
 * Faanya Rose - former president