Each year The Explorers Club recognizes the EC50–fifty extraordinary people who are doing remarkable work to promote science and exploration, but remain under the radar and out of the limelight. These 50 individuals are exploring, inspiring, and creating the future—the future of the planet, life upon it, and the boundless possibilities that await us all.

“We’re just at the beginning of the greatest era of exploration, of opportunity, that there’s ever been, as long as we can maintain the habitability of the Earth first,” said ocean explorer Dr. Sylvia Earle in a recent interview with Robin Pomeroy, host of Radio Davos.

When Fedarko and McBride recently appeared at University at Buffalo’s Distinguished Speakers Series, they delivered a gripping account of their more-than-700-mile hike — the full length of Grand Canyon — a journey that lasted over a year and pushed them to the edge of physical and mental endurance.

Evolutionary Biologist and part-time stand-up comic Ella Al‑Shamahi, the first female host of a major BBC Nature documentary series, recently appeared at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, as a featured speaker in the Distinguished Speaker Series of Southern California.

In times of relentless change and rising complexity, hesitation is costly. It’s not enough for leaders to know what to do—they must become the kind of leaders who can do it.