Tabla de contenidos para Summer 2017 en The Explorers Journal

Thanks to the efforts and generosity of many, what started as an idea to create a single World Oceans Day event evolved into a remarkable week-long program of speakers, panels, films, art installations, and meetings at our headquarters and the United Nations. It’s hard to pick the highlights, there were so many—a seemingly endless array of scientists, artists, authors, conservationists, filmmakers, photographers, policy makers, diplomats, veterans, and students (both local and from around the world, representing UNESCO Marine Heritage Sites). Perhaps most striking was the way Explorers Club headquarters became a destination, a place for connecting, gathering, and planning. Our clubhouse was packed and buzzing all week—at one point I went from bottom to top to try to find a quiet spot for some guests to meet, and could not…

DEREK ELAND IS A CUMBRIAN ARTIST WHO EMPLOYS A VARIETY OF MEDIA TO EXAMINE THE HUMAN CONDITION AND WHAT IT IS LIKE TO “BE HUMAN” IN STRESSFUL AND CHALLENGING SITUATIONS—FROM THE FRONT LINES IN AFGHANISTAN TO THE SUMMIT OF EVEREST, THE LATTER, THE SUBJECT OF A CURRENT TRAVELING EXHIBITION AND BOOK, ARTIST ON EVEREST: BEING HUMAN AT BASE CAMP. MORE ON ELAND’S WORK CAN BE FOUND AT WWW.DEREKELAND.COM. For many of those traveling to Everest Base Camp, it’s the trip of a lifetime. Some have invested everything they have to climb the world’s tallest peak; often their trips have been years in the planning; and each traveler has a personal reason for being there. But what is it? Why do they come here? Having served as a soldier and as…

JOIN THE “EXPLORERS IMMORTALS” AND ENGRAVE YOUR NAME OR DEDICATION IN STONE ON NEW PAVERS FOR THE LEFRAK TERRACE AT EXPLORERS CLUB HEADQUARTERS. ADORN OUR LANDMARK OUTDOOR SPACE AND HELP PAY FOR URGENT WORK FOR PHASE II RENOVATIONS BY MAKING A TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATION OF $2,500 PER DEDICATED PAVER TO OUR LOWELL THOMAS BUILDING FUND. THE EXPLORERS CLUB WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE FOLLOWING WHO HAVE PURCHASED A PAVER: Robert Ashton, James H. Alexander, John G. Alexander, Darlene T. Anderson, Jeanne D. Andlinger, Barbara Annan, Robert J. Aresty, Atlanta Chapter, Robert J. Atwater, Norman L. Baker, Andreas Bender, Josh Bernstein, John Bierley, Bruce Blanchard, John R. Bockstoce, Brian M. Boom, John R. Boreske Jr., Gary W. Bowersox, Lawson W. Brigham, Diane Britz-Lotti, Julianne M. Chase, James M. Clash, Allen S. Counter,…

IN 1972 ON APOLLO 16, CHARLES DUKE FN’92 BECAME THE YOUNGEST MAN ON THE MOON. DUKE WAS FAMOUS EVEN BEFORE HE FLEW. AS MISSION CONTROL SPECIALIST WHEN APOLLO 11 RAN LONG ON ITS LANDING—WITH BUZZ ALDRIN MED’76 AND THE LATE NEIL ARMSTRONG BARELY REACHING THE LUNAR SURFACE BEFORE USING UP THEIR FUEL—DUKE DEADPANNED, “TRANQUILITY, WE COPY YOU ON THE GROUND. YOU GOT A BUNCH OF GUYS ABOUT TO TURN BLUE. WE’RE BREATHING AGAIN. THANKS A LOT!” DUKE, A RETIRED U.S. AIR FORCE BRIGADIER GENERAL, WAS HAPPY TO DISCUSS MORE THAN FOUR DECADES OF LUNAR MEMORIES WITH THE EXPLORERS JOURNAL. JC: What about fear? CD: Not from a standpoint of a problem with the spacecraft not making it or “will we get back.” It was more “what if it doesn’t work”…

Sometime between July 10 and 12, a one-trillion-tonne iceberg, among the largest on record, calved away from Antarctica’s Larsen C Ice Shelf. Dubbed A68, it has a surface area of 5,800 square kilometers and a volume of 1,155 cubic kilometers—enough ice to fill Lake Erie twice. Winds and currents now carry the newborn berg toward the Falkland Islands. Commenting on the calving, Adrian Luckman of Swansea University, lead researcher on the MIDAS ice shelf monitoring project, said, “This event is a spectacular episode in the recent history of Antarctica’s ice shelves, involving forces beyond the human scale, in a place where few of us have been, and one that will fundamentally change the geography of this region.” Such once rare ecological events are becoming more frequent, evincing Earth’s rapidly changing…

your health and safety in the field ANYONE PAYING EVEN MARGINAL ATTENTION TO THE NEWS REGARDING DISEASES BECOMES AWARE THAT NEW DISEASES EMERGE AND SOME OLD BAD ACTORS RE-EMERGE TO RAISE NEW REGIONAL AND GLOBAL HEALTH THREATS. A VIRULENT PATHOGEN OUTBREAK THAT SPREADS ALSO BECOMES A SECURITY THREAT BECAUSE IT CAN DESTABILIZE A REGION OR LARGER AREA. SO IT WAS GREAT TO CATCH UP WITH OLD FRIEND DAVIDSON HAMER, A FELLOW OF THE EXPLORERS CLUB SINCE 1998 AND PROFESSOR OF GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE AT BOSTON UNIVERSITY. HAMER, WHO CHAIRED THE RECENT INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF TRAVEL MEDICINE REVIEW COURSE, DIRECTS THE EXTENSIVE GEOSENTINEL SURVEILLANCE NETWORK, COMPRISING 64 TROPICAL OR TRAVEL DISEASE UNITS IN 29 COUNTRIES. MICHAEL MANYAK: What constitutes an emerging disease? How is this defined? DAVIDSON HAMER: Emerging infectious…

46 EAST 70TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10021 I 212-628-8383 I WWW.EXPLORERS.ORG ALASKA L. Michelle Ridgway Tel: 907-957-2277 mishridgway@gmail.com ATLANTA Steve Pigott Tel: 770-337-5450 jagter@msn.com AUSTRALIA & NEW ZEALAND Todd Tai todd@mivision.com.au CANADA Ray Hyland chapterchair@explorersclub.ca CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA Jimmy McSparron jimmy@trekkingnut.com CHICAGO/GREAT LAKES Robert A. Shuchman, Ph.D. Tel: 734-649-0937 shuchman@mtu.edu EAST AND SOUTH ASIA Steven R. Schwankert Tel: 86-1350-116-3629 steven@sinoscuba.com FLORIDA Aida “Idee” Belau Tel: 321-243-8448 chair@floridaexplorersclub.org GEORGE ROGERS CLARK Leonard A. Weakley, Jr. Tel: 513-702-0725 lweakley@rendigs.com GREAT BRITAIN Eleuthera du Breuil Tel: 44-2036036974 eleutheradb@hotmail.com GREATER PIEDMONT David N. Brinkman dobrink@bellsouth.net HONG KONG Michael E. Barth mebarth@explorershk.org Sharon Kwok Pong slkoschker@hotmail.com NEW ENGLAND Gregory Deyermenjian Tel: 781-968-5174 paititi@alumni.clarku.edu NORTH PACIFIC ALASKA Mead Treadwell Tel: 907-258-7764 Fax: 907-258-7768 meadwell@alaska.net NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Stephen E. Smith, Ph.D. Tel: 925-934-1051 ecnca@oceanearth.org NORWAY…

CORAL REEFS ARE NURSERIES THAT SUSTAIN NOT ONLY ALL OCEAN LIFE, BUT ALSO ALL LIFE ON PLANET EARTH. YET THESE FRAGILE ECOSYSTEMS ARE PERISHING AS OUR SEAS CONTINUE TO WARM IN RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, RESULTING IN A PHENOMENON KNOWN AS “CORAL BLEACHING.” A SIGN OF MASS CORAL DEATH, CORAL BLEACHING HAS BEEN ACCELERATING AROUND THE WORLD. IN AN EFFORT TO HEIGHTEN PUBLIC AWARENESS OF THIS ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE SILENTLY RAGING BENEATH THE SEAS, JEFF ORLOWSKI, DIRECTOR OF THE AWARD-WINNING FILM CHASING ICE (2012), RECENTLY JOINED FORCES WITH RICHARD VEVERS, A FORMER AD MAN AND LONG-TIME OCEAN ADVOCATE, AND A TEAM OF RENOWNED MARINE BIOLOGISTS AND UNDERWATER FILMMAKERS TO PRODUCE CHASING CORAL (WWW.CHASINGCORAL.COM), WHICH DEBUTED ON NETFLIX ON JULY 14. ANGELA M.H. SCHUSTER, EDITOR OF THE EXPLORERS JOURNAL, RECENTLY CAUGHT UP…

THE WASTING OF BORNEO BY ALEX SHOUMATOFF 224 PP • BOSTON: BEACON PRESS, 2017 • ISBN-10: 0807078247 • ISBN-13: 978-0807078242 • $26.95 The Wasting of Borneo, the latest book from veteran environmental reporter Alex Shoumatoff, tells the heartbreaking story of the disappearing natural and cultural diversity in Borneo and how its indigenous peoples are trying to protect their homeland from multinational corporations as well as their own government. The author first learned of the widespread destruction of the jungle to make way for palm plantations on a visit to Borneo to meet and interview primatologist Biruté Galdikas, who has dedicated her life to orangutan research. Shoumatoff soon discovers that palm oil is a key ingredient in nearly everything we consume—from lipstick and cookies to diesel fuel and chocolate—and that its…

“I’m proud to play a part in building our Legacy Endowment and encourage all Members to join The Legacy Society!” —Richard Garriott de Cayeux, LM’98 John G. Alexander Alan B. Albright Robert J. Atwater Capt. Norman L. Baker Barbara Ballard Robert D. Ballard, Ph.D. Samuel B. Ballen* Mark Gregory Bayuk Daniel A. Bennett Josh Bernstein Bruce Blanchard John R. Bockstoce, D.Phil. Jack Aaron Boggs Bjorn G. Bolstad* Capt. Bruce M. Bongar, Ph.D. Brian M. Boom, Ph.D. Jill Botway Garrett R. Bowden Capt. Lawson W. Brigham, Ph.D., USCG (ret.) Harry Davis Brooks Lt. Col. Jewell Richard Browder* August “Augie” Brown John C.D. Bruno Lee R. Bynum* Virginia Castagnola Hunter Julianne M. Chase, Ph.D. James M. Chester* Maj. Gen. Arthur W. Clark, USAF (ret.) Capt. William Clark* Steven Cohen, Ph.D. (hon.) Leslie…