2014
January 21, 2014
Anna Konotchick – Post-earthquake self-recovery in Haiti
Best Western 7-Seas
February 25, 2014
Char Glacy – Midway Atoll: A Brief History & What it is Like to Count 500,000 Albatross
Best Western 7-Seas
April 22, 2014
Jut Wynne – The Mysteries of Easter Island Caves
Best Western 7-Seas
May 27, 2014
Tom Levy – Cyber-Archaeology in 3D: Recent Exploration in the Middle East
Best Western 7-Seas
August 24, 2014
Summer Mixer at the home of Suzanne and Michael Hennessy in Del Cerro
October 21, 2014
Kevin Hardy and Natalya Gallo – Beyond the Movie: The Untold Discoveries of the DEEPSEA Challenge Expedition
Best Western 7-Seas
November 18, 2014
Dr. Jeff Bada – The Origin of Life on Earth, and Elsewhere(?)
Best Western 7-Seas
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December 13, 2014
Holiday Mixer at the home of Rick & Kay Matheron overlooking San Pascual Valley
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2013
January 15, 2013
John E. Lawrence & Susan Grimaldi – Shamans in Remote Mongolia
Best Western 7-Seas
February 20, 2013
John Asmus – Seeing Double: Leonardo’s Mona Lisa Twin
Best Western 7-Seas
March 19, 2013
John Rowe – Omo Valley of Ethiopia
Best Western 7-Seas
April 23, 2013
Shirley C. Strum – Baboons: How to Solve a Monkey Puzzle
Best Western 7-Seas
May 13, 2013
Special Event – David Smith’s 60th Anniversary as member of TEC
Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla
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June 18, 2013
Capt. Robert “Rio” Hahn – Maha Kumbh Mela 2013
Best Western 7-Seas
July 21, 2003
Club Mixer – Home of Nancy Nenow in Mission Hills
September 30, 2013
Dr. Laurie Marker – Saving the Endangered Cheetah
Best Western 7-Seas
November 12, 2013
Dominique Rissolo – An Underwater Journey into Mexico’s Ice Age
Best Western 7-Seas
December 8, 2013
Holiday Mixer at the home of Nancy Nenow in Mission Hills
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2012
January 17, 2012
Joanne Simerson – Polar Bears and Climate Change
Best Western 7-Seas
February 21, 2012
Michelle and Howard Hall – Making “Under the Sea 3D” in 70mm IMAX
Best Western 7-Seas
March 20, 2012
Hubert Staudigel – The Rock Bottom of Antarctica’s Food Chain
Best Western 7-Seas
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May 20, 2012
Spring Mixer – Home and Sea Horse Grotto of Rick and Patty Elkus in Poway
June 12, 2012
Charles Stanish – Exploring the Ancient Mysteries of Lake Titicaca
UCSD Faculty Club
June 21, 2012
Dr. Thomas Levy and Dr. Albert Lin
Invitation to the 5th Anniversary of the Center of Interdisciplinary Science for Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3)
UCSD
October 16, 2012
Richard Theiss – Understanding Great White Sharks and the Future of Shark Conservation
Best Western 7-SEas
November 13, 2012
Alan Nichols (President of TEC) – Dead Men Tell Tales…The Last Days of Chinggis Qa’an
Best Western 7-Seas
December 2, 2012
Holiday Mixer - Home of Nancy Nenow in Mission Hills
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2011
January 18, 2011
Mark Van Stone – 2010: Science and Prophecy of the Ancient Maya
Miramar Naval Air Station
February 15, 2011
Dr. Jean-Louis Etienne – The Critical Role of the Polar Region on Climate Change
Best Western &-Seas
March 29, 2011
Michele Westmorland – Headhunt Revisited: Caroline Mytinger’s 1926-30 journey to Melanesia To paint portraits of vanishing cultures
Chinese Restaurant
May 17, 2011
Prof. Donald Johanson – Lucy and Our African Origins
Best Western 7-Seas
July 17, 2011
Summer Social at the 7-Seas in Mission Valley
October 20, 2011
Raymond Ashley – Three Voyage to Paradise: Cook, Melville, Gauguin
Best Western 7-Seas
November 15, 2011
Dr. Jeffrey L. Bada – The Origin of Life on Earth and Beyond: Insights from Mars
Best Western 7-Seas
December 4, 2011
Holiday Mixer – Home of Nancy Nenow in Mission Hills
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2010
January 19, 2010. - A Night of Ocean Exploration
Talina Konotchick – Into the Abyss
Miriam Goldstein – Scripps Environmental Accumulation of Plastics Expedition
Miramar Naval Air Station
February 22, 2010
James Westerman – Osireion of Abydos, Egypt: An Archaeological Analysis
Miramar Naval Air Station
April 20, 2010
Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell – Elephant Communication
Miramar Naval Air Station
May 2, 2010
Club Mixer – At the home of Nancy Nenow in Mission Hills
October 19, 2010
Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin – Mongolia, Valley of the Khans Project: The Search for Genghis Khan’s Tomb
Miramar Naval Air Station
November 30, 2010
Dr. John West – Life at High Altitude
Miramar Naval Air Station
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2009
January 20, 2009
Prof. Thomas Levy – Masters of Fire – Hereditary Bronze Casters of South India
UCSD Geisel Library
February 17, 2009
Gary L. Peterson – The Cryogenic World of Triton
Miramar Naval Air Station
March 17, 2009
Chia Tan – The Secret Life of Golden Monkeys
April 22, 2009
Dr. Ray Ashley – Return of the San Salvador
May 9, 2009
Field Trip by invitation of Adm. “Nick” Nicholson
Tour of Los Angeles class attack submarine
May 31, 2009
Club Mixer – At the home of Rio Hahn and Teresa Fiske in Bonsall
October 20, 2009
Kim Griest – The Dark Side: How Dark Matter and Dark Energy control the Universe and its Fate
Miramar Naval Air Station
November 10, 2009
Dr. Peter Keller – His travels and research in New Guinea
Miramar Naval Air Station
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2008
January 15, 2008
Barbara Nolan and Nancy Nenow - Art and Life Among the Wodaabe and Tuareg of the Sahara
Miramar Naval Air Station
April 17, 2008
Megan McArthur - Astronaut on a Mission to Repair the Hubble Space Telescope
Miramar Naval Air Station
May 22, 2008
Dr. Aaron Thode - When Predators Collide: Studying How Sperm Whales Interact with Fishing
Vessels Off Southeast Alaska
September 16, 2008
Dr. David Pierce – Climate and Conflict: Pressure on Global Water Supplies
Miramar Naval Air Station
October 14, 2008
Richard C.J. Somerville – Global Warming: The Latest Word on the Best Science
Miramar Naval Air Station
November 18, 2008
Helen Amanda Fricker – Are the Ice Sheets Melting? Antarctica and Greenland’s Response to Climate Change.
Miramar Naval Air Statio2
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2007
June 19, 2007
Jon Rebman – San Diego Plant Atlas Project: Exploring and Discovering in Our Own Backyards
94th Aero Squadron, Montgomery Field
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2006
March 23, 2006
David Flohr, MBA
The Wreck of the SS Brother Jonathan
Sizzler Restaurant, Point Loma
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2005
March 15, 2005
Jim Hoffman – Fighting Wildfires – Seeing Through the Smoke with Infrared
Miramar Naval Air Station
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2004
February 2004 – Two part program
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Floating the Upper Missouri: The 200th Anniversary of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
By Doug Magde
2. Easter Island to Tahiti: Stone Statures and Geolog
By Monte Marshall
November 23, 2004
Dr. David Hoffman – Building Democracy: The Afghan Way
Miramar Naval Air Station
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2003
January 28, 2003
Dr. David I Hoffman – Central Asia
Miramar Naval Air Station
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May 2003
Dr. Jim Hawkins – Travels in Tibet and the High Himalaya in the 1980’s
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June 2003 – The Explorers Club Annual Barbecue and Hubbs Sea World Research Institute Update
Brent Stewart
September – 2003
Sea Changes – The Effect of Climatic Forces on Polar Ecosystems
Dr. Paul Dayton with introduction by Dr. Don Walsh
(This program was in coordination with the Oceans 2003 conference)
October - 2003
Biological Exploration in the 21st Century – Journeys of Discovery in Genomic Science
Oliver A. Ryder
November 2003
Bryon Bass – The First Marines and Farmers of the Adriatic Sea
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2001
February 20, 2001
Payne Johnson - “All Roads Lead to Rome” Early Explorers in Egypt, Jordan, & Syria
Miramar Naval Air Station
March 22, 2001
David Furnas - Traditional Trepanation of the Kisii, Kenya
April 17, 2001
Dr. William (Wild Bill) Wheeler – Efe Pygmies: Archers of the African Rain Forest
Miramar Naval Air Station
November 13, 2001
In honor of Professor Hugh Bradner – a man of exceptionally diverse interests and talents within and beyond the field of science
Hugh was ably assisted by Marge Bradner who served as Secretary for our Chapter for a number of years – What a team!
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2000
January 18, 2000
Dr. Eugene LaFond – Oceanography
March 14, 2000
Robert Floyd Dill – Exploring the Depths of Belize’s Blue Hole
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
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1999
October 19, 1999
Ralph White – Exploration of the Ocean Abyss
November 16, 1999
Jim Hoffman – The Highest of the High Ground: Imaging and Mapping from Space
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1998
December 1, 1998 – Members Night
Miramar MCAS
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1997
January 14, 1997 – Tracking China’s Monal Pheasant
David Rimlinger
Miramar Naval Air Station
March – John West – 1981 American Medical Research Expedition to Mt. Everest
Miramar Naval Air Station
April – Alan Rice – Greenhouse Extinction of Dinosaurs: Volcanoes or Meteors?
Miramar Naval Air Station
May - Peter Isler – Cape Horn Winter Passage with ESPN
San Diego Yacht Club
June 20, 1997 – Alfred McLaren – Explorers Club President – joint meeting with San Diego Natural History Museum and the San Diego Explorers Club
July 17, 1997 – Amazon Voyage – Capt. Rio Hahn and Amazon creatures from the Zoo
Joint meeting with Ocelots in the Zoo auditorium
October - Shona, Spirit in Stone (African sculpture) – San Diego Natural History Museum
November - Annual Meeting – Brunch at the San Diego Yacht Club
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1996
January 21, 1996
New Board of Directors Meeting?
Home of Jim Clements
January 23, 1996
Dennis L, Mammana – Stargazers
Miramar Naval Air Station
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1995
January 24, 1995
Hugh Bradner – “The Weirdest Telescopes in the World”
Miramar
February 28, 1995
Jim Clements
Miramar
April 27, 1995
Ed Darack – 6194 Denali Solo
Miramar
May, 1995
Jack Peters – World Travels
June 13, 1995
Robert Hahn- Voyages of the Research Vessel Heraclitus
Miramar
October 10, 1995
Gaie Ailling and Mark Van Thillo – Two Years in the Biosphere
Miramar Naval Air Station
December 3, 1995
Bil Brown – Champagne Brunch/Business meeting
Stone Ridge Country Club, Poway
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1994
February 20, 1994 – Our First San Diego Chapter Meeting
Champagne Buffet Brunch and Business meeting – short introduction by each member
Stone Ridge Country Club, Poway
March 29, 1994
Dr. Frank Todd – “Impossible Dream”- Creating the Penguin Encounter at Sea World
This will encompass 20 seasons in Antarctica with 5 or 6 trips a season.
*Additional short program by Ann Helliwell, skydiver with over 3,000 dives.
Miramar Naval Air Station
April 24, 1994
Robert Gow – Red Blood, Green Gold: Stories of the Yucatan
Stone Ridge Country Club, Poway
June 14, 1994
Bill Wheeler – In the Footsteps of Stanley: On Foot with Pygmies in the Ituri Rain Forest, Zaire
Miramar
September 13, 1994
Werner P. Heuschele, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Director of the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species of the San Diego Zoo
Dinner at. Café del Rey Moro (now the Prado) for dinner and presentation at the Otto Center, San Diego Zoo
October 25, 1994
Ralph White – Titanic
Rubin H. Fleet Theater
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