The Explorers Club serves as a common bond and meeting point for explorers and field scientists worldwide. Every year Explorers Club members launch new research expeditions around the world, thus continuing the early goals laid down by the Club’s founders in 1904.
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The Explorers Club flag represents an impressive history of courage and accomplishment and has been carried on hundreds of expeditions by Club members since 1918. To carry the Club flag is an honor and a privilege. It has flown at both poles, from the highest peaks of the greatest mountain ranges, traveled to the depths of the ocean, to the lunar surface, and outer space. A flag expedition must further the cause of exploration and field science.
For additional information about applying for a flag go to the explorer’s club website.
https://www.explorers.org/expeditions/flag_expeditions/carrying_the_flag
San Diego Chapter Flag Expeditions
2016
Flag #160
Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition
Expedition Leader: Frederik D.A. Paulsen, MI’02 with Tim Radke, MN’13 and a large number of other explorers
March 1 - December 20, 2016
Flag #83
Rig2Reef Exploration: Re-purposing Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms as Reefs
Expedition Leader: Emily A. Callahan, MN’14
September 30 – October 9, 2016
Flag #132
Tang to Qing Dynasty Vessels of the Maritime Silk Road
Expedition Leader: Damien J.Y. Leloup, FI’11
June 3 – June 19, 2016
Flag # 211
Hunt for the Ruby Seadragon Expedition 2016
Expedition Leader: Greg Rouse FN’16 with Mary (Dewy) White MN’14, Christian Mc Donald
March 29 – April 20, 2016
2015
Flag #216
Angel Island: Hunting for Biofluorescence Eels
Expedition Leader: Amberlea C. Jackson, TM’14 with Patty Elkus, MN’13, Rick Elkus, LI’10, Jessica Elkus, MN’12, and Kristina Elkus, MN’12
March 29 – April 4, 2015
2014
Flag #117
Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Project (ELRAP):
Khirbat al-Jariya, Jordan
Expedition Leader: Thomas E. Levy, FN’09
August 17 – September 17, 2014
Flag #117
The 2014 Waterberg Plateau Regional Wildlife and Cultural
Heritage Expedition
Expedition Leaders: Thomas E. Levy, FN’09, Laurie L. Marker, FI’06, David Dolan, FN’03 with Nancy Nenow, MN’04
July 25 – August 2, 2014
Flag # 221
Cabo Pulmo Mobula Investigation
Expedition Leader: Richard Elkus, LF’11
March 2 – March 9, 2014
2013
Flag # 132
Unearthing History in Porcelain: An Underwater Expedition
of the Jingdezhen River
Expedition Leader: Damien J. Y. Leloup, FI’10
October 14 – November 1, 2013
Flag #84
The Tamaraw, a rare Endemic Dwarf Buffalo of Mindoro
Island
Expedition Leader: Brent S. Stewart, FN’91
May 13 – May 27, 2013
2012
Flag#162
The Role of the Placodioid Morphological Expression Under
High Stress Conditions in Central and Northern China
Expedition Leader: Lawrence A. Glacy, FN’09
July 27 – September 29, 2012
2011
Flag #84
Whale Sharks of Cendrawasih Bay and the Coral Triangle
Expedition Leader: Brent Stewart, FN’91
November 8 – November 30, 2011
Flag #84
Ecology of Whale Sharks in the Archipelago of the Republic
of the Maldives
Expedition Leader: Brent Stewart FN’91
December 8 – December 25, 2011
Flag #117
Edom Lowlands Regional Archaeology Expedition to Jordan
Expedition Leader: Thomas E. Levy, FN’09
September 25 to December 10, 2011
Flag # 60
Bio-monitoring Air Quality Using Lichen - An Expedition to
the Gaoligong Mountains of Western Yunnan Provence, China
Expedition Leader: Lawrence Glacy, FN’09 with Nancy Nenow, MN’04
June – July 2011
Flag #109
Oden Southern Seas Expedition 2010/2011
Expedition Leader: Brent Stewart FN’91
December 3 – January 20, 2011
2010
Flag #99
Valley of the Khans Project
Expedition Leader: Albert Yu-Min Lin, FN’10
June 24 – July 26, 2010
2007
Flag #112
Hkampti Plane Search – Western Mountains Along the
Border of Myanmar and India
Expedition Leader: Brenda Davidson-Shaddox, MN’04 with Nancy Nenow, MN’04, Don Morley, MN’90, Charlene Glacy, and our Burmese Crew
January 11 – February 13, 2007
2006
Flag #147
Curare Quest Expedition
Expedition Leader: H. Morgan Smith, FE’56 and Doris Lee McCoy, FN’91
July 25 – August 4, 2006
Flag #84
Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Expedition
Expedition Leader: Brent S. Stewart FN’91
October 28 – December 6, 2006
Flag #84
Icebreaker Oden Expedition, Buenos Aires to McMurdo
Station
Expedition Leader: Brent S. Stewart, FN’91
December 7, 2006 – January 7, 2007
2005
Flag #84
Whale Sharks of East Africa
Expedition Leader: Brent S. Stewart, FN’91
November 14 – December 3, 2005
2004
Flag #42
Yellowstone Lake MATBI
Expedition Leader: Jay M. Short, LF’03
August 2004
Flag #42
Kamchatka Microbial Expedition
Expedition Leader: Jay M. Short, LF’03
August 2004
2003
Flag #73
Binational Expedition to Sierra de la Laguna and Cerro
Mechudo in Baja California Sur with the San Diego Natural History Museum
Dr. Norm C. Roberts, FN’96, Dr. James F. Clements, FN’80, and Robert Clements
November 10 – 22, 2003
1999
Flag # 189
Ethnopharmacological Research in Nepal
Capt. Robert “Rio” Hahn, Teresa Fiske