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2023
September - Fall Newsletter
June - Summer Newsletter
June - Annual Summer Picnic
May - Annual Meeting / Officer Election / Dinner /Speakers: Emily Paris & Katherine Akey.. 05-19-23
Annual Meeting / Officer Election / Dinner / 2 Speakers.. 05-19-23
Laurie Marker FI '06, Make the Wild a Better Place... 04-28-23
Postponed - 50th Anniversary Party & Meeting... 02-25-23
Kim Frank FN'18...Human-Elephant Conflict in India... 01-27-23
2022
Ryan Weed PhD FN'19 ...Interstellar Travel... 11-18-22
Ed Bernman PhD ...Sacred Mountains... 10-28-22
Sonia Meyer TM'20 ...Expedition Caving... 9-23-22
The Anual Picnic ...6-12-22
Anual Election ...5-20-22
Bryan Heisinger ...Hester Lake B-24 Wreck... 4-29-22
Randall Reeves ...Figure "8" Voyage... 3-25-22
Satya Gontcho A Gontcho PhD MI'21 ...Unravelling the Universe... 3-25-22
Scott Warnacsh ...Woman in an Iron Coffin... 1-28-22
2021
Dr. RoberJunco ...Mexico's Buried History... 11-19-21
Craig Clements PhD ...Wild Fire Environments... 10-15-21
Ashley Lemke PhD ...Lake Huron Archaeology... 9-24-21
Allison Fundis FN'20 ...Deep Sea Exploration...5-21-21
Brandi DeCarli FN'21/Scott Thompson MN'21 ...Farm from a Box...4-23-21
Deana Weibel NM'20 ...Steward what you don't know?...3-26-21
Kent Lightfoot PhD ...Indigenous Landscape Practices...2-26-21
Diana Pickworth PhD FN'01 ...The Stuff of Ledgends...1-22-21
2020
Holiday Greeting, Plus ...Music at High Lattiudes...1-22-20
Cheryl Leonard MN'20 ...Music at High Lattiudes...1-22-20
Dr. Mimi George...Vaca Taumako Project...10-30-20
Sylvia Earle MED'81/Liz Taylor MN'95 ...Mission Blue ...9-25-20
Bill Phillips ...Race In America...8-14-20
Eliot Hodges NM'10...Grand Canyon Rim to Rim ...6-5-20
David Hirzel, Sirdar...Whose Falt is it Anyway ? ...6-5-20
Anual Meeting... ...5-25-20
Dr.Robert Griffith NM'16...Following the Rhinoceros...2-28-20
Jo Anne Van Tilburg PhD FN'09 ...Rapa Nui, TEC & History ...1-24-20
2019
Holiday Party ... ...12-15-19
Barbara Bekins PhD ...Marianas Serpentine Seamounts ...11-22-19
Michele Westmoreland FN'95...Headhunt Revisited...10-25-19
Robert Anderson FN'89 ...Forensic Engineering...9-27-19
Summer Newsletter........7-1-19
Summer Picnic.......6-9-19
Patrick Hunt PhD ...Hannibal's Secret Weapon...5-31-19
David McGuire MEH ...Swimming with Borneo Sharks...4-26-19
Richard Wiese - Dr. Pat Saffo ...Night at the Aquarium...3-22-19
James Nestor ...Language of Sperm Whales...2-22-19
Patrick Scannon MD, PhD, FN'96...Searching for American MIAs...1-25-19
2018
Holiday Party......12-16-18
Leon McCarron ...A Thousand Miles One Foot... 11-30-18
Richard Feachem FN'16...Shrinking Malaria Map... 10-26-18
Michelle Trautwein PhD...Meet your Face Mites... 9-21-18
Chapter Picnic...... 7-21-18
Alexandra McInturf TM...Do Sharks Abide by the Tide?... 5-25-18
Alan Eustace FN'15...Stratospheric Exploration... 4-27-18
Kim Chambers FN'16...The Journey Within... 3-30-18
Dr. Sherry Wren FN'14...Operation Ebola... 2-23-18
Dr. John Aii LM'14...Mt. Everest Massif War... 1-26-18
2017
Holiday Celibration...... 12-17-17
Jordan Smith...Engineering Eden... 11-17-17
Dirk Rosen...Saving Deep Sea Corals... 10-27-17
Dr. Anders Jepson...Drones and Landmines... 9-22-17
Annual Expedition to angle Island..... 6-24-17
J.R. Skok...Signs of Life on Mars... 5-26-17
Dr. Davis Weiss...Wilderness Medicine... 3-31-17
Visit to the Rumsey Map Center, Stanford... 2-23-17
Vist to the Golden Shore, California Coast 1-27-17
2016
Holiday Party ... 12-11-16
Dr. Bob Schmeider FN'93...Herd Island Expedition ... 11-18-16
Lowell Thomas Meeting ... 10-12-16
Susan Middleton ... Spineless Marine Portraits... 9-23-16
Ed Von Der Porten... Field Trip to Drakes Bay... 9-10-16
Club Picnic - Chrissy Field ... 6-10-16
Ann Sanguini PhD...Earthquake in Nepal ... 5-27-16
Autodesk Gallery visit ...New Exploration Techl ... 4-15-16
Daniel Lin FN'14 ...New Exploration Techl ... 3-25-16
Rosemarie Twinam NM'90 ...Across southern Africa ... 2-26-16
Visit to Intitive Surgical ...Robotic Surgery ... 2-26-16
Ted Cheeseman NM'15 ...Marine Mammal Photography ... 2-26-16
2015
TEC Anual Gala Holiday Reception ... 12-13-15
Arjun Gupta ...Third Pole Initiative... 11-20-15
Dave Imus ...The joy of Good Maps ... 10-23-15
Dave Dolan NM'14...Tornadoes/Dopler Radar Observations ...9-25-15
Anual Picnic at Angel Island ... 6-13-15
Evening at the Academy of Sciences... 5-21-15
Dr. David Ainley ...Battle for Antartic Oceans Soul...4-24-15
Dr. T Mark Harrison ...First half billion years of Earth...3-27-15
Nicole Crane FN'95 Giacomo Bernardi PhD ...Decades of Ocean Research...2-27-15
Dr. Timothy King ...Ice Age Behemoths...1-30-15
2014
Tony Liang ...Exploration into Cancer...11-21-14
M.E.A. McNeil ...Bee Exploration...9-26-14
Newsletter Policy Change...7-2-14
Dr. Margaret Lowman...Life in the Treetops...5-23-14
Dr.T.MarkHarrison ...S.E. Asia Global Tectonics...4-25-14
Reception for the Crown Prince of Bhutan...3-18-14
Dr. Lynn Rothschild...Seach for life in the Universe...2-28-14
Capt. Don Walsh...Deep Diving...1-31-14
2013
Robert Christiansen PhD...Volcanology Hazards...11-22-13
Dr. Zahi Hawaas...Noted Egyptologists...10-25-13
Past Club Chairs Give up tightly held Secrets ...9-27-13
Angel Island Expedition ...6-9-13
Nicole Crane FN'97...Conserving Ocean Resources ...5-24-13
Black Diamond Mine Field Trip ...5-11-13
Tour of Solar Impulse Aircraft ...4-29-13
Robert Schmieder Ph.D. FN’86... Cliperton Expedition ...3-26-13
Suzanne Klotz... Into Himalaya Valleys ...3-28-13
David Des Marais PhD... A new Mars ...2-22-13
Story Night... Tale Night from Board of Directors...1-25-13
2012
William Straka PhD...Peru Ancient Cities and the environment...10-26-12
Dr Laura Marker...Return to Garrapata...9-29-12
Club gathering at Angel Island...6-9-12
Club Trip to New Almaden Quicksilver Mine...5-11-12
Stephen Smith PhD...16 Years of Reef Research...4-27-12
Edward Von der Porten...Findings from the San Felipe...3-30-12
Joshua Glovin...Undersea Flying...2-24-12
Matt Lewin ...Expedition Medicine...1-27-12
2011
Joan Boothe ...Nils Nordenskjold's Survival...11-18-11
Jay Gregory ...Bolivians in a Global World...10-28-11
Jim Westerman ...The Osireion Abydos...9-23-11
Angel Island Picnic...6-11-11
Alan Nichols, Esq ...Finding Cinggis Qa’ans...5-20-11
Robin E. Ziegler ...Building the World...4-22-11
Dr. Tom Cromwell...Disaster’s Dr. Explorer...3-25-11
Don Dana ...Ethiopian Research Expedition...2-25-11
Tales by Your Fellow Explorers...1-21-11
2010
Dr. John Dumbacher FN'10...Poison Birds of New Guinea..11-19-10
Josh Bernstein FR'04..Expeditions and the Media...10-29-10
Prof. Don Johanson FN'76...Lucy and Our African Origins...9-17-10
Prof. Marcel Robischon FI'08...International Dendrology Society ...7-1-10
Alan Cooper, Larry Schemel,Julianne Stafford...Music/ Antarctic Treaty ...5-21-10
Seth Shostak PhD...When Will We Find ET? ...4-30-10
Bob Richards...Odyssey Moon...3-26-10
Reg Barrett ...the Elusive Fisher in the Sierra Nevada...2-26-10
Story Night at the Club..1-29-10
2009
Explorer's Solstice Celebration...12-12-09
Nathaniel Dominy Ph.D...Man Eating Lions...11-20-09
Diana Pickworth Ph.D...Excavation in ancient Yeman...10-30-09
Jim Sano...The footsteps of Ernest Shackleton...9-25-09
Picnic at Angel Island..6-6-09
Doug Finley...Sailing the Northwest Passage...5-15-09
Christopher Whittier...Veterinarians in the Mist...4-24-09
Payne Johnson...Stephens’ Maya—Then & Now...3-27-09
Orville Magoon...Tsunamis—Real and Personal...2-27-09
Drs. Malcolm Potts & Martha Campbell... Sex in 21st Century...1-30-09
2008
Leela Hutchison... The Cave of Crystals...11-21-08
Don Hartsell... Lighter than Air around the World...10-18-08
Art Ford... Cruising Antarctica...9-27-08
Marguerite Van Auker Walsh... Celebrating Her 100th Birthday...6-25-08
Harry Hicks & Dede Whiteside... Explorers’ Gathering...5-31-08
Jeff Morgan... Global Heritage Fund...4-23-08
Felicia Nutter DVM Ph.D.... Saving Sea Animals on Land...4-4-08
Lawrence Lansburgh...David & Goliath in the Amazon...2-22-08
Vince Backen...OR/V White Holly- working research ship...2-26-08
2007
An Explorers’ Gathering...12-9-07
Laurence Bergreen...Marco Polo’s Time Machine...11-8-07
Brian L. Fisher...Save an Ant, Save a Planet...10-17-07
Richard Blake...California’s First Known Meteor Impact...9-23-07
Don Dana...The First Americans!...5-18-07
Phil Rasori...Ceremonial Masks of New Guinea...4-20-07
Craig Childs...What Happened to the Chaco People?...3-23-07
Helen Klaben Kahn...“Hey! I’m Alive”...2-23-07
Olaf Malver...Kayaking the Frontiers of the Seven Seas!...1-19-07
2006
Jeff Ross'... Bug Pictures" 12-8-06
Gene Boudreau, Lee Langa...Tarahumara Expedition..9-17-06
Picnic on Angel Island - great pics...6-17-06
Edward Von der Porten...Galleon San Felipe - Not lost forever...5-19-06
Captain Don Walsh...Famous Sunken Ships...4-7-06
Alan Nichols...Crossing the Silk Web on Buicycle...3-24-06
James McLane,John Rutherford...Valley of the Kings...2-24-06
Douglas Capone...Planet of the Prokaryotes...1-13-06
2005
Arlene Blum...Breaking Trail...11-8-05
Dr. Liebowitz ...The Last Expedition (Book)...10-14-05
Picnic on Angel Islandl...6-18-05
Eugene & Sibyl Boudreau...Kenya & Mexico's Tarahumara...5-29-05
Kirk Usher Jr. Robert Miller M.D. Dan H. Moore, Ph.D... Go for a bike ride!...4-22-05
Andrew Urbanczyk... Transpacific Raft Expedition...3-25-05
David Moyer MD... Three Summers in Antarctica...2-25-05
Duane Silverstein... Saving the Environment...1-28-05
2004
Jonathan Chester... Extreme Digital Photography... 12-19-04
Dr. Cagan Sekercioglu... Angolan Escarpment Ornithological Expedition... 11-19-04
Dr. Peter Pyle... Great Trans-Pacific Migrationse... 10-19-04
Angel Island Picnic... Photos...6-19-04
Gregory Crouch... Enduring Patagonia - Hostile Beauty...6-4-04
Rupert Isaacson... The Bushmen near extinction...4-30-04
Eugene Boudreau... Tarahumara of the Sierra Madre...3-27-04
Sheldon Breiner... Remote Sensing in Archaeology...2-27-04
Dana Isherwood... Tibet in China Today...1-16-04
2003
Alan Nichols MN’84 & his son,Shan Nichols.. Cycling the Silk Road...12-5-03
Issa Mohamed.. Ancient Libraries of Timbukto...11-7-03
Thierry Thys ...Through Russia, with Patience...10-3-03
Morton Beebe ...Explorations of a Photographer...7-8-03
Terry O’Brien ...Fair Gods and Feathered Serpents...5-3-03
Martin Pomerantz ...Astrophysics in Antarctica...4-25-03
Dr. James Allan ...Clifornia's Maritime Archaeology...3-28-03
Tom Joyce ...Hajj-Exploring the Center of the Cyclone..1-31-03
2002
Chris McKay PhD...Antartica to Mars- Search for Life...12-6-02
Reid W. Dennis...Chasing the Ghost of Amelia Earhart..10-25-02
Ugo Conti...Outer Adventure-Inner Journey..9-27-02
Angel Island Picnic...6-22-02
Wiese & Nilson ... Dan & Rusty Leibowitz Garden Party...5-31-02
Amos Nachoum... Photographing large mammals - land and sea..4-26-02
Marilyn Schlitz...Frontiers of Consciousness...3-29-02
Bonita Chamberlin...Inside Afghanistan...2-22-02
Elbert Branscomb...Life Through the Genome's Eye...2-22-02
2001
Gene Savoy...The Search for El Dorado Continues..12-7-01
Patrick Scannon, MD, PhD...The Bent Prop Project...10-26-01
David Kennard...Award Winning Films...9-28-01
Angel Island Picnic...6-23-01
Angel Island Photographss...6-23-01
Jim Moore...Exploring the Highest Sierra...5-18-01
Marc Shargel...An under water swim across the Pacific...4-27-01
Tim White...Search of Human Origins...3-30-01
Jean-Pierre Hallet...the Pygmy tribes of the Congo...2-23-01
Gary Richter MN'98...Disarmament in the former USSR...1-26-01
2000
Diana Isherwood...In Search of the Magnetic North Pole...12-1-00
Graham Hawkes MN'86...Exploring the Ocean Planet...10-27-00
Paul Perreault FN'97...Taking the Measure of Everest...9-29-00
Jonathan Chester...1st Accent- Antartica's Mt. Minto...5-19-00
Dr. Alexander Leskov...Raiders of Ukraine's Lost Treasureso...4-28-00
Cagan Hakk? Sekercioglu SM'99...Vanishing Worlds...3-31-00
Michael Foster...Secret Lives of Alexandra David-Néel...2-25-00
Richard Bangs MN'81...The Lost of Wild Rivers...1-28-00
1999
Larry Lansburgh MN'81...Dream People of the Amazon...12-3-99
Mike Diggles FN'92...Natural History of Ano Nuevon...10-29-99
Joe Medeiros... Alpine Ecology of the Sierra Nevada...9-11-99
Spring Picnic... Angel Island...6-26-99
Dr. Dan Liebowitz MN'66... Rescue on the Equator...6-26-99
Leo LeBon... Exploring the Sahara...4-30-99
Dr. Merle Robertson FN'90... The Boy King of Palenque...3-10-99
Norbert Wu FN'97 FN'90... Around the World Under the Sea...2-20-99
Dr. Benjamin Santer/Dr.Robert Wharton Jr Ph.D. FN'84... Climate Meetings...1-22-99
1998
Ellen Purcell... Tasmanian Adventure ...12-3-98
Alzada Carlisle Kistner MN'87... An Affair with Africa ...9-25-98
Spring Garden Party - Angel Island...6-27-98
Art Ford-Geologist...Antarctica -Continent in Transition...5-29-98
Stephen Dutton MN'98 & Heidi Tiura..The Path of Giants...4-24-98
Tom Hall MN'97 & Liz McLoughlin..Search Sea & Selves by Sail...3-27-98
David Tett & Peter Duignam...Africa's Great Rift Valley...2-27-98
Pamela Logan PhD FN'97...Warrior Kingdoms of Tibet's Far East...1-23-98
1997
Patrick Scannon MD FN'96...Palau - WW II Archeologic Treasure...12-3-97
Edwin Bernbaum...Sacred Trees, Sacred Mountains - Himalayas...9-26-97
Spring Garden Party Angel Island ...6-28-97
David Howell FN'86...The People's Republic of China...5-30-97
Bill Isherwood FN'70...The Changing Arctic ...4-25-97
Mort Beebe FN'78...Cascadia? ...3-28-97
Bob Schmieder FN'86...Heard Island Expedition ...2-27-97
Eva Spitz-Blum MN'84 & Sandy Ross ...Shamans of Equador...1-24-97
1996
Capt. Lawson Brigham FN'92...1994 Artic Ocean Expeditionn...12-6-96
Mike Diggles FN'92...Foray to Marin Headlands...10-23-96
Peter McMillan...The Greatest Flight ...9-27-96
16th Anual Carey Baldwin Memorial Garden Party ...6-15-96
Nick Clinch FN'69...Antarctic Wanderings in the Sentinel Range ...4-31-96
Jonathan Chester...Penguin Dreams...4-31-96
Gary Richter PhD....Tribal Life In Southern Ethiopia ...4-5-96
Jeff Shea MN'92...The Everest Experience To The Top...2-23-96
Eric Weiss M.D...Mountain Medicine - Khumbu, Nepal...1-26-96
1995
Dan Liebowitz MN'66...The Man Who Stopped Slavery in East Africa - Book...12-1-95
Kim Grandfield...Kayaking the Arctic Riviera...10-27-95
Dr. Robert Schmieder FN'86..Easter Island and Salas y Gomez...9-29-95
15th Anual Carey Baldwin Memorial Garden Party ...6-25-95
Olaf Malver FN'92...Kayaking Irian Jaya in Eastern Indonesia...5-25-95
James Murphy PhD FN'80...The Science of Forest-Fire Control...4-28-95
Michael Diggles FN'92,...Wilderness Geologic Mapping...3-31-95
Peter Rodda, Susan Middleton, and David Liittschwager...S.F. Fossiles...2-24-95
Ronald Reuther FN'74...Aviation in Exploration...1-27-95