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It is an honor for me to shine a light on the significant work of chapter members. Andrew, who has hosted the chapter to summer picnics at his home in Ward, has been working with The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) for the past 30 years on the coldest aviation case of them…

Mehgan Heaney-Grier, a lifelong ocean adventurer with more than 20 years experience working above and below the waterline, talked to the Rocky Mountain chapter on Feb. 25, 2020, about “The Power of Adventure.” In 1996, at the age of 18, Heaney-Grier established the first constant weight free-diving record in the U.S. with a dive to…

Wherever explorers and adventurers travel these days, there are scientists and researchers back home desperate for hard-to-obtain environmental data that would otherwise be unavailable for conservation.  That’s the premise behind the formation of Adventure Scientists (AS) in 2011, a nonprofit that equips partners with data collected from the outdoors that are crucial to addressing environmental and…

Chapter member Dr. Ulyana Horodyskyj Peña has been selected to lecture on Ponant’s Le Commandant Charcot in Antarctica early next year. The massive 492-footer, which is the world’s only Polar Class 2–rated cruise ship, will host Ulyana January 7 to February 5, on its Unexplored Antarctica between Two Continents cruise that will analyze the effects of climate change on…