Brian Lam spoke with Lorie Karnath, president of the 107-year-old Explorer's Club, about what it means to be an explorer in a century where nearly everything is mapped. Lam:
[I]f the age of the explorer as just "man hiking somewhere hard" is over, then the age of field exploration backed by explorers who are also engineers, programmers, roboticists, data analysts and videographers is amidst us. …
The Explorer’s club is filled with people like the Woods Hole Team of Gallo and Langes and Ballard who explored the Titanic and are building the machines that go and see where we couldn't alone. And the Club had just given awards to Thomas Levy, who is using radiocarbon dating to see if he can prove "King Solomon’s Mines" existed; Brent Steward who is using radio and satellite tracking tools to see where animals migrate; And Albert Lin is using a complex matrix of map, ground penetrating imaging and crowdsourcing data to try and locate Ghengis Khan’s tomb somewhere in the 600,000 square miles of Mongolia.
(Photo by Quinn Dombrowski)
The Dish 