The Explorers Club Impact Grants Program
Now in its third year, the Explorers Club Impact Grants Program has awarded significant grants to 22 explorers, helping expand the impact of their work in science and exploration around the world.
Grantees’ projects span an extraordinary range of disciplines and geographies — from shark conservation efforts in Bahrain and Colombia, to hi-tech glacier studies in Antarctica, to the search for a legendary shipwreck in the Baltic Sea. Other supported work includes jaguar rewilding in Argentina, wildlife research across Cameroon, India, Tanzania, and Madagascar, paleontological fieldwork in Patagonia uncovering new evidence from the end of the Late Cretaceous, and documentation of climate-driven migration among the traditional Himba people of Namibia.
- Fieldwork in the following disciplines will be considered: biological sciences, archaeology,
- anthropology, paleontology, earth sciences, ecology, and astronomy, as well as exploratory
- projects that reveal new knowledge about the planet and its inhabitants, including regions undergoing significant environmental or cultural change.
- While there may be lab components of a project, grants provide funding for projects that are largely based upon a field expedition.
- Fieldwork can be rugged and adventurous, but the program will not consider projects
- purely focused on adrenaline sports or physical feats. Adventure with a purpose, combining adventure with genuine conservation or scientific objectives, will be considered.
- Fieldwork in the following disciplines will be considered: biological sciences, archaeology,
- anthropology, paleontology, earth sciences, ecology, and astronomy, as well as exploratory
- projects that reveal new knowledge about the planet and its inhabitants, including regions undergoing significant environmental or cultural change.
- While there may be lab components of a project, grants provide funding for projects that are largely based upon a field expedition.
- Fieldwork can be rugged and adventurous, but the program will not consider projects
- purely focused on adrenaline sports or physical feats. Adventure with a purpose, combining adventure with genuine conservation or scientific objectives, will be considered.
Mark Kowalowski„Our whole history has been one of dragon pushing. Pushing dragons back off the edge and filling in those gaps on the maps.”
