• The Last Successful Titanic Dive: Is Exploration Worth the Risk?

    7 PM at the Dairy Arts Center, Boulder, Colorado A special presentation by Dr. Alan Stern, American engineer and planetary scientist. He is the principal investigator of the New Horizons mission to Pluto. During the Titan submersible’s last successful dive to the Titanic in July 2022, mission leader Alan Stern, the late OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, and three NASA […] Continue reading>>

    The Last Successful Titanic Dive: Is Exploration Worth the Risk?
  • High-Altitude Microplastics Research and Steps You Can Take to Reduce Your Impact on the Environment

    Co-Presented by Dr. Mikki-McComb Kobza, executive director Ocean First Institute, and Fjallraven guide Dr. Kateryna Lapina 6 p.m., Thursday, September 28, 2023 Fjallraven Boulder, 1048 Pearl Street, Boulder Seats limited; Open to the public; admission free; refreshments served For years, environmentalists have been concerned about the impacts of plastic pollution in oceans, lakes, and rivers, including the […] Continue reading>>

    High-Altitude Microplastics Research and Steps You Can Take to Reduce Your Impact on the Environment
  • New Stickers Available!

    New Stickers Available! Thanks to Mike Seibert and Jeffrey Donenfeld Rocky Mountain Chapter stickers are now available. They are $2 each with proceeds benefiting the chapter.  Continue reading>>

    New Stickers Available!
  • Break Bread with Fred 

    Join us for lunch with Alfred Scott McLaren, Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Ph.D. Hotel Boulderado, The Corner Bar, 2115 13th St. Boulder, CO Recently in the news is Captain Alfred Scott McLaren, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Ph.D., Explorers Club President Emeritus, and former chapter chair of the Rocky Mt. chapter. Fred has relocated to Chapel Hill, N.C., […] Continue reading>>

    Break Bread with Fred 
  • Cool Cars: Chapter Tours Clive Cussler Museum in Arvada

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    Members and guests of the Rocky Mountain chapter traveled to Arvada on June 3 for a tour of the Clive Cussler Car Museum. This extensive collection of 105 significant automobiles, ranging in years from 1906 to 1965, was started by the late best-selling author Clive Cussler (1931-2020), a beloved member of The Explorers Club. The […] Continue reading>>

    Cool Cars: Chapter Tours Clive Cussler Museum in Arvada
  • Tour the Cussler Museum in Arvada

    The Cussler Museum is dedicated to the preservation of astounding rare and vintage automobiles from all over the world. This extensive collection of over 100 significant automobiles, ranging in years from 1906 to 1965, was started by renowned best-selling author Clive Cussler. As an underwater explorer, Cussler discovered more than 60 shipwreck sites and wrote non-fiction books about […] Continue reading>>

    Tour the Cussler Museum in Arvada
  • Rocky Mt. Chapter Hosts Space Telescopes: Small, Big, and Biggest

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    “Like a giant model rocket, it goes boom and it’s gone,” says University of Colorado, Boulder Professor Jim Green in explaining his early work with solid fuel missiles at the White Sands Missile Range, the United States Army military testing area and firing range in New Mexico.Green has experienced a front-row seat on the assembly, […] Continue reading>>

    Rocky Mt. Chapter Hosts Space Telescopes: Small, Big, and Biggest
  • Space Telescopes: Small, Big and Biggest, Presented by CU Professor Jim Green 

    CU Professor James Green has experienced a front-row seat in the assembly, deployment, and maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and witnessed the deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which has enough fuel for another 20 years, assuming it’s not overtaken by micrometeorites. In fact, thanks to 19 years of upgrades and repairs […] Continue reading>>

    Space Telescopes: Small, Big and Biggest, Presented by CU Professor Jim Green 
  • Rocky Mountain National Park Ranger Talk 

    The History of RMNP, Trends in Wildlife and Wildfire Management, and an Update on Recent Field Research Throughout time, Rocky Mountain National Park, the third most visited National Park in 2019, has been influenced in many ways; however, park rangers and managers hope to keep the essence of Rocky unchanged. This program explores how visitation […] Continue reading>>

    Rocky Mountain National Park Ranger Talk 
  • Rocky Mountain Chapter Dinner: Sharing Your Bearings

    In a break from previous formats, our March dinner will provide members an opportunity to share their most recent projects with other chapter members. Come prepared to explain where you’ve been and the exploration you’re proudest about. Ground rules: • Six minutes per presentation; maximum 8-10 talks.   • No more than a five-year look-back. Current […] Continue reading>>

    Rocky Mountain Chapter Dinner: Sharing Your Bearings
  • Fieldwork in Antarctica with Dr. Cassandra Brooks

    Join Cassandra Brooks as she tells stories from the bottom of the world and her efforts to protect it. Brooks will share imagery and stories from her five research expeditions to Antarctica, including the challenges of conducting science operations and media in the windiest, coldest, and most extreme environment on earth. She will also share […] Continue reading>>

    Fieldwork in Antarctica with Dr. Cassandra Brooks
  • 50th Anniversary of the Andes Survivors

    On October 13,1972, a Uruguayan plane carrying a Rugby team and their friends crashed in the Andes. Sixteen of the 45 passengers survived 72 days trapped on a glacier, isolated from civilization and having to resort to eating the bodies of the dead to survive. In those 72 days, they endured extreme cold temperatures, avalanches, […] Continue reading>>

    50th Anniversary of the Andes Survivors
  • Fall Picnic and Mine Tour

    An RMEC encore event ….. Andrew and Jacquie McKenna have graciously again invited chapter members and guests to join them in a fall kick-off celebration at their ranch near Ward located at 47517 Peak to Peak Highway. (Directions forthcoming.) Time: 12 PM, with mine tour to follow. As an added bonus, Club member Markus Raschke […] Continue reading>>

    Fall Picnic and Mine Tour
  • From Spots to Satellites: Ecology, Technology and Giraffe Conservation Across Africa

    Giraffe are icons of the African wilderness, but they are under significant conservation threat. With only 117,000 individuals widely distributed in isolated populations across 21 different African countries, giraffe face diverse challenges throughout their range, which require diverse solutions to address them.  The Giraffe Conservation Foundation, with a collaborative international team of scientists and local stakeholders, […] Continue reading>>

    From Spots to Satellites: Ecology, Technology and Giraffe Conservation Across Africa
  • The Human Element, a presentation by James Balog

    James is an acclaimed photographer featured in The Human Element and Chasing Ice. He’s a scientist, adventurer, president and founder of the Colorado-based Extreme Ice Survey and Earth Vision Institute. Environmental photographer and thinker James Balog explores the crucial concerns of our time. In this presentation, he will share stunning images and provocative ideas from his latest book, The Human Element: […] Continue reading>>

    The Human Element, a presentation by James Balog
  • RMEC Rewind: Everest Expert Alan Arnette Meets Rocky Mt. Chapter

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    The multi-hyphenate Coloradan Alan Arnette, climber-coach-public speaker-blogger-author, provided an update on the state of climbing in the Everest region to the Rocky Mt. chapter, held appropriately enough, at a Boulder Nepali restaurant on April 29, 2022, Arnette, who runs the alanarnette.com blog which covers the annual Everest season each spring, climbed the Seven Summits in one year […] Continue reading>>

    RMEC Rewind: Everest Expert Alan Arnette Meets Rocky Mt. Chapter
  • An Evening with Alan Arnette

    Alan Arnette climbs, coaches, talks, and writes. He advocates for Alzheimer’s patients, caregivers, and researchers at every opportunity. As Alan saw his mom, Ida, go through the Alzheimer’s journey, he said it took her life and changed him forever. So after a 30-year career in management roles with Hewlett-Packard, he took early retirement in 2007 to […] Continue reading>>

    An Evening with Alan Arnette
  • The Future of Humanity in Space: The Dawn of Commercial Spaceflight

    On December 11th, 2021, Dylan Taylor flew aboard Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket on NS-19 and became the 606th human to enter space and the 592ndhuman to cross the Karman Line. Dylan will discuss his experience on the spaceflight, as well as what the future holds for human spaceflight and exploration. Dylan is a Rocky Mountain Explorers Club […] Continue reading>>

    The Future of Humanity in Space: The Dawn of Commercial Spaceflight
  • Rick Ridgeway, Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map

    Rick Ridgeway has experienced many adventures in his life, including the first American ascent of K2 and the first crossing on foot of a corner of Tibet so remote no outsider had ever seen it. In telling these stories, Rick also describes his shift from someone fascinated by wild places to someone dedicated to saving […] Continue reading>>

    Rick Ridgeway, Life Lived Wild: Adventures at the Edge of the Map
  • Tales of the Open Ocean: From Plankton to Sperm Whales

    In her presentation, Explorers Club member Gaelin Rosenwaks will take you on a journey from satellite tagging bluefin tuna in the Western Atlantic Ocean to drilling ice cores in the frozen Bering Sea to the bottom of the Blue Hole in Belize, in order to illuminate cutting-edge scientific research being conducted to understand the complexity of […] Continue reading>>

    Tales of the Open Ocean: From Plankton to Sperm Whales