Centuries? A thousand years? It was hard to estimate the wealth of polar experience gathered in the small auditorium on the University of Colorado at...
Historic interest in the world’s coldest continent often focuses on the great polar explorers of the past. Earlier this year, a nearly forgotten footnote in...
On Jan. 15, 1940, during Adm. Richard E. Byrd’s third expedition to Antarctica, a special moment in polar history occurred. George Gibbs Jr. became the...
Now entering its second half-century, the Antarctic Treaty seems to have withstood its tests. International Antarctic science is more robust than ever. Since 1985, the...
W. Barclay Kamb, a long time professor at the California Institute of Technology and a prominent Antarctic researcher, died at his home on April 21,...