Founded in New York City in 1904, The Explorers Club promotes the scientific exploration of land, sea, air, and space by supporting research and education in the physical, natural and biological sciences. The Club's members have been responsible for an illustrious series of famous firsts: First to the North Pole, first to the South Pole, first to the summit of Mount Everest, first to the deepest point in the ocean, first to the surface of the moon—all accomplished by our members.
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The Explorers Club Headquarters boasts 114 stained glass windows. They embody a stunning range of brilliantly colored panes, representing a number of heraldic shields, portraits and pastoral and classical scenes. These windows are in dire need of repair.
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Each fifty dollars donated will help to preserve one brick from the Club's current facade. Your contributions both large and small are important in helping us restore the Explorers Club historic Lowell Thomas building brick by brick*.
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The Explorers Club is pleased to accept gifts of publicly traded appreciated stock. If you own stocks, bonds or mutual funds that have appreciated in value and have owned them for at least one year, you have an opportunity to realize tax savings by making an outright gift of stock.
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Ever felt encumbered by the amount of gear you feel you need to bring into the field? Wish you had an affordable, lightweight way to collect and transmit data or charge electronics when you’re far from civilization?
The 2012 Explorers Club Future Tech Survey is the club’s first effort to get a better understanding of what technology issues our members are experiencing in the field, and what our most important technology needs are regarding field exploration, communications and data processing.
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Mindfulness: the Ultimate Tool in Exploration
New York, New York
October 13, 2012
Exploration demands not only physical endurance, extensive training, and a comprehensive toolkit but also a mental capacity to seamlessly enter environments vastly different from our own, be they natural, cultural, or psychological, to accomplish our goals.
Successful exploration requires keen awareness beforehand of the needs of the expedition and the tools of survival. In the field, mindfulness of the surrounding environment, both physical and cultural, the team dynamics, and one’s own thoughts, body, emotions and even spirit, is required.
Director and deep sea explorer James Cameron, center, took the Explorers Club flag on his recent record-breaking solo trip. His ocean submersible had reached a depth 35,756 feet below the surface. The flag was retired. The West Coast Explorers Club Annual Dinner was held on the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana.
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