Please join us Sunday June 8 ONLINE for our Summer Meeting and Social.

The Board of Directors and Committee Chairs will share updates on the past year and planning for the year ahead. After updates we will have an open forum for members to ask questions or share ideas. We welcome input as this is an opportunity for you to help shape the chapter that belongs to us all!

Then we will have time to socialize and chat freely (Feel free to bring a beverage!)

For this portion of the evening we will break out into chat rooms. Last year we broke out into areas of exploration interest. This year we will organize the groups by state so you can connect with members who may be in your area!

The Chapter Annual Meeting will be virtual with the goal of making it accessible to all members.

THIS EVENT IS MEMBERS ONLY

Sign up Here ***We will send a zoom link to the sign up list.

The zoom link will also be sent out by email a week in advance, so keep an eye out.

Join us at Folsom’s Sugar House in Chester, New Hampshire for a quintessential and delicious New England Saturday, learning about maple syrup and the science around it. We will tour the sugar shack to watch production in action and learn about how this key New England product is made. Our hosts at Folsom’s Sugar House, Brian and Sue, have been producing maple products for almost 40 years, and will share the process with us in their sugar shack. (You will also have the opportunity to buy goodies afterwards at the farm store.)

We will also be joined by David Moore, a UNH graduate student in Natural Resources and Earth Systems Science (NRESS) with a background in tree syrup production. Moore will speak about the science behind maple syrup, the impacts of climate change, wood anatomy, tree physiology and what makes tapping sustainable.

Prior to graduate school, David ran The Crooked Chimney in Lee, New Hampshire, for several years, where he produced birch and sycamore syrup commercially. His experiences in the syrup industry have been instrumental in informing his research. David’s work as a producer and as a scientist has been featured in or at The Sugarmaker’s Companion: An Integrated Approach to Producing Syrup From Maple, Birch, and Walnut Trees, Northern Woodlands, the Associated Press, the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, The Boston Globe among others.

Please wear comfortable outdoor clothing and appropriate footwear. Layers may be useful as Sugar Shacks can be quite warm, but some of our tour and talk will be outside.

An outhouse will be available.

Congratulations!  You just won a free trip to the International Space Station. Dan will give your pre-flight briefing, then we’ll launch you on a SpaceX Dragon, dock with the ISS, and float on over to the Cupola for lovely views of Earth.  

If we time it right, you’ll see the vast Sahara, the Mediterranean, Himalayas, Aurora, nightlights and more.  Dan has arranged with some musicians to serenade us as we go.

With luck, we’ll even fly over New England, home of our chapter of the Explorers Club.  Finally, I’ll bring you safely back to a splash down, and award your mission patch.

Daniel Barstow is Director of Earth Music Theatre, with movies that combine astronaut photography of Earth with joyous music by world-class musicians.  Previously, he was Senior Education Manager for the International Space Station US National Lab, Director of TERC’s Center for Earth and Space Science Education, President of the Challenger Learning Center network and Principal Investigator for Windows on Earth, with its breath-taking photos of Earth taken by the astronauts.  Now retired, he continues his work with Earth photography from space, as Education Mission Specialist for the Association of Space Explorers and Earth Music Theater.  He is a National Fellow of the Explorers Club.

Open to members and non members.

This talk will be help online only via zoom.

ECAD is the World’s Largest Gathering of Explorers once upon New York City each April! ECAD 2025 will be April 24-27th

This panel will demystify ECAD for new members or those who still or unsure, to help with planning and booking. And to allow you to ask any questions you may have!

Tickets for ECAD (the Explorers Club Annual Dinner) are on sale now! ECAD weekend includes the annual dinner (only event which costs money), but also so much more! Come learn from chapter members who have attended ECAD weekend to find out more about what ECAD is, what to expect and how to maximize your experience.

Topics will include:
- Dates and basic logistics of ECAD (including new member drinks Friday Night, and tbd Chapter meet up)
- When events are happening to help in your arrival and departure planning.
- Annual Dinner and Volunteering. What is the annual dinner like? Can I volunteer? (Gala alternatives)
- What are the other events over the weekend, when are they?
- EC50
- NGEN
- Symposium
- Grants/Flag Returns
- Members Annual Meeting. What happens at the meeting? Is it worth attending?

There will also be an opportunity to ask any questions you have about the weekend.

This talk will be help online via zoom. Open to members. Please contact newengland@explorers.org for further info and links.

ECAD 101

Founded around our inaugural meeting in 1904, the ECAD weekend is not to be missed. Members from around the world come together over ECAD weekend for three days of talks, parties, fancy dinners, grant presentations, flag returns, member meetings, cocktail parties, and above all making amazing connections with fellow explorers. If you are able plan to come Thursday night to Sunday night to catch all the festivities at the Clubhouse. The ECAD 2025 Gala theme is Paradise Found Protecting Precious Places.

All events are free for members except the Gala Saturday night which requires tickets, purchased in advance. Tickets do sell out.

Each year evolves slightly but generally follows the same schedule, here is a link to the 2024 schedule.
When it is published you will find the 2025 schedule here.

Anjanette DeCarlo, Lecturer at University of Vermont Grossman School of Business and founder the Save Frankincense initiative will speak about her work and the threats that face Frankincense.

Dr. Anjanette DeCarlo received her doctorate in Natural Resources and Environment from the University of Vermont. She is a Lecturer on supply chains in the Sustainable Innovation MBA at UVM and Anthropology at Saint Michaels College. As the former Chief Sustainability Scientist at the Aromatic Plant Research Center, she conducts primary anthropological and ecological field research and ecological supply chain analysis on aromatic and medicinal species. As founder of the Save Frankincense initiative she consults with the private sector on green and ethical supply webs and provides education and outreach for the public.  As a development expert, she has worked on post-conflict evaluations of natural assets, supply chains and environmental projects, cross culturally, in Somaliland, Ethiopia, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso, Peru, Cuba, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Canada and China. Previously, Dr. DeCarlo was the Program Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics and with the Natural Resources Defense Council, where she worked on some of the first iterations of socially responsible business benchmarks and triple bottom line reporting. Dr. DeCarlo’s intensive work on frankincense is regularly highlighted in the media including CNN Inside Africa, the New York Times, and National Geographic, The Guardian, Vice News and more.

The event will be streaming ONLINE ONLY. Link available through RSVP.

If you have any questions please email newengland@explorers.org

Whether you can’t always make it to in-person events or want more ways to connect with the TEC network, Dispatches bridges that gap by highlighting the incredible work of our Members. It’s a space to meet fellow explorers, learn from leading field scientists, and make the connections needed for your next great expedition.

Wednesday, November 13 at 12:00 pm ET

pre register to attend online

Jeska Clark TM’21 is an entrepreneur, explorer, and athlete driven by a passion for pushing boundaries and giving back to her community. Her adventures encompass both innovation and environmental stewardship. Jeska has participated in marine conservation efforts involving bamboo sharks in the Malaysian islands, and polar expedition training in Northern Canada to high-altitude mountaineering summits in North America, South America, and the Himalayas. All while also honing her leadership and lifesaving skills through Search and Rescue (SAR) training and volunteering.

She is the expedition leader of the Full Circle North Pole Expedition, a groundbreaking expedition led by an all-Black-supported team of explorers, who will attempt the final degree of the North Pole to break new ground in polar expedition. The Full Circle North Pole Expedition aims to pay tribute to the legacy of Matthew Henson, who was the first African American to reach the North Pole in 1909. Additionally, the team seeks to usher in a new era of representation in polar expeditions.

Clark explains that “this project represents a journey of both physical and cultural significance. We hope to bring a fresh perspective to polar expedition and shed light on Matthew Henson’s often overlooked story.”

The team of athletes and adventurers comes from all walks of life. The North Pole team members include L. Renee Blount, Danica Carey, Erick Cedeño, Dom Mullins Evan Green, Thomas Moore, and Marcus Shoffner.

Learn More about the Expedition

Members-Only

This is an event run by the Explorers Club Global out of New York.

Join us for a day at UNH!

10:30am -12:15pm Expedition Talk and Lab Tour with TEC Fellow Larry Mayer

Larry Mayer (FN ‘17), Director of the Center of Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) at the University of New Hampshire invites you to visit the lab. Larry will report on his recently completed Explorers Club Flag Expedition on the Swedish Icebreaker ODEN which made it to Victoria and Nordenskiold Fjords in northern Greenland, further than any ship had ever traveled before in the Lincoln Sea. Once there, they spent several weeks, mapping and making a myriad of other measurements aimed at understanding the processes responsible for the rapid melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet.

He will also offer a brief tour of the lab facilities, including its Visualization Lab, world-renowned for developing innovative approaches for the 3- and 4-D visualization of ocean data. At the same time, the lab is running a program that involves the simultaneous operation of two large (8m long) robotic vessels mapping in the Gulf of Maine. The Remote Operations Center is in the lab and if time permits, we can pop in and see what they are up to.

12:15pm-1:00pm Picnic Lunch

Bring your own picnic and enjoy lunch together on the UNH campus.

1:00pm-2:30pm Hike with Maine Guide and TEC Member John Henkelman

John Henkelman (MN ‘21) is Maine Guide and Natural Resources Management Ph.D. student at UNH.

He will take us out on a hike to explore the college woods, an educational area on campus for forestry, environmental science, and recreation to name a few. The trail is a wide gravel path with many options to choose from depending on the interests/needs of the group.