Students Corner

12/13/12 - Jeffrey J. Marlow SM’07

As a geobiologist at the California Institute of Technology, I study the limits of microbial life on Earth and the possibility of life beyond our planet.  Life is remarkably adaptable, able to deal with scorching temperatures, crushing pressures, desiccating droughts, and just about any other challenge thrown its way.  In pursuit of these “extremophiles,” I have conducted field work in Morocco, Iceland, Spain, and at methane seeps at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.  Understanding the metabolic and molecular bases for these adaptations can lead to useful new products and reveal potentially habitable regions throughout the universe.

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09/25/12 - Elizabeth J. Rosen SM’08

Exploration, at least for me, has always been less a matter of interest, desire, or even passion, than one of absolute necessity. In my junior year of high school, I realized that there must be other people in the world who felt the same way, maybe even enough to form an organization, so I typed “explorers club” into Google, just to see what would come up. Six months, one nerve-wracking application, and a couple of meetings later, I was officially a student member of the Northern California chapter.

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08/09/12 - Timothy J. Holland SM’11

I wanted to join The Explorers Club because of the people in it. There have been members who have explored the moon to the deepest trench in the ocean. I was lucky enough to have two family friends that were already deeply involved in The Club and sponsored and guided me through the process. I want to be an astronaut.

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07/11/12 - Kamil Chadirji-Martinez SM’10

For as long as I can remember the Arctic has intrigued me. Throughout the years I have read about the Arctic’s tales of exploration and gazed at its stunning pictures. In February 2008 I learned about the award winning organization Students on Ice, which takes high school students to the Arctic and Antarctic. For three years I became obsessed with going, and last summer I realized my dream by securing a full scholarship for the Arctic expedition.  Capt. Norman Baker was also on that trip. After hiking a total of 25km through Auyuittuq Park to the Arctic Circle and back, Norman Baker said he considered us legible student members and would sponsor any one of us interested in joining the Explorer’s Club.

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06/13/12 - Annie Bourbonnais SM’09

I am currently a Ph. D. student in Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I joined the Explorers Club as a student member in fall 2009, after hearing about it from a friend. I joined the club because I wanted to broaden my horizons and meet other people that are passionate about travels and exploration.

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04/13/12 - Andrew S. Flies SM’11

I was interested in joining the Explorers Club for several years primarily because of the expertise of club members and the network of support that the club can provide.  My current research has taken me to a remote area of Kenya and I believe my future research career will involve a substantial amount of travel and exploration.  Conducting scientific research in remote locations can be very challenging and I believe the knowledge and resource base available to Explorers Club members will make my research more efficient and allow me to be a more productive member of the conservation community.

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02/09/12 - John Roma Skok SM’10

I have dreamed of exploration since my earliest nights staring up at the stars and dreaming of all the worlds to explore. I focused my early efforts in high school and college studying the next world to be explored, Mars. In addition to some independent research projects I worked with the Mars Exploration Rovers and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Missions to explore the Red Planet remotely.

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09/09/11 - Jack Evans SM’11

There is a picture in Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki of the author planning his famous Pacific expedition around an old globe with the Arctic explorer Peter Freuchen. The caption places the globe in the ground floor of The Explorers Club. When I read that book two years ago, I knew I wanted to go there.

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