Alex Bozzette with Circumnavigators flag

2011 Georgetown Scholar, Alex Bozzette, will be moving to Ecuador in May to serve as a site coordinator for a child vaccination pilot study. Alex’s coursework and research experiences on his topic, Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, have now led him to an opportunity in Tena, a small jungle city of 30,000 people at the mouth of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Information on his project can be found at www.almasanaproject.org. Alex is grateful to the Foundation for giving him the experience and insights which prepared him for this position.

Luck to you Alex!

Bertrand Piccard and his co-pilot, Brian Jones, were the first men to circumnavigate the globe non-stop in a hot air balloon (breaking three world records for distance, duration and time in the process). His latest work on developing renewable forms of energy and sustainable development will take its peak when his newest project of a planned flight in a solar-polar powered aeroplane “SOLAR-IMPULSE” launches on May 1 in San Francisco. Stopovers will be in Phoenix (Arizona), Dallas (Texas), Atlanta (Georgia) or St. Louis (Missouri) on its way to Washington D.C. and New York City.

At right, remembering the first piloted balloon flight around the world.

Learn more about Bernard Piccard here.

Learn more about Solar Impulse here.

Below, Bertrand Piccard Receiving the Magellan Award in 1999

Join us as we welcome guest speaker Joyce Chaplin, author of
Round About The Earth, Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

Round About The Earth, Circumnavigation from Magellan to Orbit

Joyce E. Chaplin, a Harvard history professor who is also a marvelously engaging and witty writer, delivers the first popular, comprehensive account of the history of circumnavigation and how it has shaped the way we think about the Earth, the environment, and ourselves.

Prize-winning author of The First Scientific American: Benjamin Franklin and the Pursuit of Genius and a frequent reviewer for The New York Times Book Review, Joyce Chaplin looks at the entire 500-year history of going around the world, from Magellan the Portuguese explorer to Magellan the GPS. She introduces us to brave, the crazy, and the inspired men and women who first took on the whole planet, whether by sail, steam, rail, bicycle, airplane, or spacecraft.

Along the way, she raises provocative questions and offers penetrating insights into this longest tradition of human activity done on a planetary scale, which elicited our oldest sense of planetary consciousness.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Luck to you!

See the Annual Meeting Announcement as a printer-friendly PDF here.

HERE ARE THE WINNERS:

Flora & Fauna

1. Angela Addario – “NYC Central Park”
2. Steven Barnett – “Feeding Time”
3. Mark Hauptman – “Purple Power”

Landscape

1. Cynthia Bassett – “Yuang Yang Rice Terraces”
2. Diane Fishman – “Landscape, Cuba”
3. Mark Hauptman – “Kiwi Lake”

Human Interest

1. Steven Barnett – “Wool Carder”
2. Angela Addario – “The Souk, Yemen”
3. David Mink – “Chinese Beach”

Architecture

1. Elizabeth Manny – “Latin Quarter Sky”
2. Cynthia Bassett – “Lake Sevan, Armenia”
3. Angela Addario – ” l’Arc de Triomphe, Night”

Through friendship, to leave this world a little better than we found it.

As members of the Circumnavigators Club, many of us know others who travel extensively as well. Our friends — new and old — may value travel the way we do. But do we spread the word about The Circumnavigators Club? And, how do we do so? Member Josh Datko has blogged about The Club as a way of spreading the word. Read it here. Do you tell others about Circumnavigators? Drop us a line and let us know how you introduce others about us.