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The Explorers Club is proud to announce the 2026 recipients of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Explorers Club Visionary Awards!
The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Visionary Awards provide grant funding to support exceptional explorers in advancing their work in science, conservation, sustainability and exploration. Thanks to the generosity of Eric and Wendy Schmidt, our 2026 winners are…
Restoring the Corridor of the Americas: The Darién Gap
Alexandra Climent, MN’23 – The New Explorer Award
Digital Documentation, Virtual Preservation and Interpretation of Piccard and Walsh’s Trieste
James Delgado, Ph.D., FN’97 – The William Beebe Award for Underwater Exploration
Project Eco-Medicine
Elodie Freymann, Ph.D., EC50’25 – The New Explorer Award
From Rainforests to the Runway: Documenting Indigenous Bioeconomic Knowledge for Global Cultural Economies
Rebecca Hui, EC50’23 – The New Explorer Award
Status of the Asiatic Cheetah Conservation Program
Morad Tahbaz, FN’24
The President’s Award for Courage in Conservation
Eric (FN’17) and Wendy Schmidt (MN’19 and 2023 President’s Award for Conservation Recipient) are proud to support the future of exploration and celebrate this year’s awardees, as they join the incredible legacy of The Explorers Club and continue to push the boundaries of exploration, on this planet and beyond. Eric and Wendy Schmidt founded the Schmidt Family Foundation, Schmidt Ocean Institute and Schmidt Sciences. Through their philanthropy, the couple are working toward a healthy, resilient, secure world for all.
“We believe we are in living a new era of discovery, one that is pushing us further into space, deeper into the sea, and knitting us more closely with our plant and animal kin on Earth, bringing us closer than ever to understanding the origins and nature of life itself. Eric and I are excited to see the new worlds these passionate explorers will discover.”
– Wendy Schmidt, president and co-founder, Schmidt Family Foundation and Schmidt Ocean Institute
Header photo by Kevin Zagorski, ECAD 2026 Photo Contest Semi-Finalist
