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CONTENTS BRASH ICE ……………………....… Cover WIND FARM OPENED ……....…..……….… VOLUME 09‐10 APRIL NO. 3 PRESIDENT P.O. Box 325, Port Clyde ME 04855 Charles Lagerbom WWW.ANTARCTICAN.ORG 16 Peacedale Dr. Northport, ME 04849 [email protected] CONTENTS BRASH ICE ……………………....… cover WIND FARM OPENED ……....…..……….…. 5 VICE PRESIDENT Dr. Anthony J. Gow MEMBERSHIP ……………......….…...… 3 TRAVELERS RESOURCE GUIDE …...….…. 5 117 Poverty Lane LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT …...... 3 TREATY MEETINGS .….………………...…. 8 Lebanon, NH 03766 [email protected] WEBSITE UPDATE …………....……….. 4 NSF POLAR PROGRAMS ………………....... 8 TREASURER BILL SLADEN ………………………..…. 5 NEW STATION ROSS SEA ………….…...… 8 Paul C. Dalrymple DOME AWAY FROM HOME .....….…... 5 NSF POLAR PROGRAMS CONTRACT ....... 8 Box 325 Port Clyde, ME 04855 CLIMATE CHANGE BOOK REVIEW ... 6 ANTARCTIC MARATHONS ………………. 9 Phone: (207) 372-6523 [email protected] BRASH ICE. It has been a long, long time since our last Newsletter. Has global SECRETARY warming or the health care reform bill held us up? We actually look for a top line John F. Splettstoesser 433 Fifth St. Apt. 316 story to highlight our Newsletter, and we have had two on the burner since late fall, Waconia, MN 55387 but were told along the road by Washington to avoid writing about them at this time. [email protected] One was a scheduled announcement on the award of the next Antarctic contractor, which was supposed to have been last fall. We still don’t have the green light on WEBMASTER Thomas Henderson that one, but now we find others are going ahead and putting it onto their web site. 520 Normanskill Place So why not us? It seems that the powers-to-be requested additional information, and Slingerlands, NY 12159 this has all taken time. Now it appears that the selection will not be made until some [email protected] time this coming fall. BOARD OF DIRECTORS The other item that they were holding off on was the final disposition of the dome at Dr. George A. Doumani South Pole Station. How could this be considered a secret when personnel were on Robert B. Flint, Jr. site dismantling the dome, packing it up, and sending it off to the States? And Dr. Arthur B. Ford recently this news has been shown on various web sites, as well as the Antarctic Guy G. Guthridge Diana Logan Sun. Jerry Marty Tony J. Meunier However, your Society has not been exactly underground for the past few months. Dr. Polly A. Penhale Our web site, under the guidance of our hard-working webmaster, Tom Henderson, Dr. Charles Swithinbank never takes a holiday. You should access our web site on a continuous basis, as Tom is always adding new items. We are so proud of what Tom has done, and he is bringing in all kinds of accolades for what he has and is doing. Meanwhile, our ever- working president, Charles Lagerbom, continues on a non-reimbursable basis the scanning of your polar pictures. What a team, be sure and read their columns in this Newsletter. Recently there was a most outstanding publication from the International Polar Year, 2007-2008, published by SCAR, the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, entitled ANTARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. John Splettstoesser offered to review this publication after he received a complimentary copy from the SCAR office, but whereas I was involved in a companion publication on climate change, CLIMATE CHANGE TO THE YEAR 2000, published by the National Defense University in---get this—1978, I preempted John’s offer. Both of these publications had similarities, remiss in the earlier announcement. John although they are highly different. The was involved in both Operation High Jump biggest similarity being that both were the and Operation Windmill back in the 1940s. products of a team of experts, SCAR’s He was born March 23, 1919, in Syracuse publication is the end result of a hundred NY, and died 23 Feb. 2007, short of his 88th scientists, from many disciplines, from all birthday. He was a very well known over the world and pooling their expertise. geographer, and one of his claims to fame The one I was associated with employed was a large publication that does not even only climatologists, twenty in number, bear his name, an extensive bibliography of including the distinguished Hubert H. Lamb, 147 pages on Antarctica that he produced Helmut Landsberg, J. Murray Mitchell, Reid when he worked for the U. S. Navy. It Bryson, Hermann Flohn, Will Kellogg, and seems the Navy had a policy then that Steve Schneider. We even used author’s names could not be shown on the climatologists known to polar people, like cover, so you won’t find John’s name on the Wally Broecker, Willi Dansgaard, Roger cover. But John, being a wise man, beat the Barry, Harry Van Loon, Jerome Namias, Navy at its own game; inside the .and Joseph Smagorinsky. Our study was bibliography he lists the publication and its initiated by the Department of Agriculture, author, John Roscoe! It seems that John who was concerned with northward was a bad pack rat, and his poor widow has movement of crops with global warming. been engulfed with his memorabilia, and she As I look back at our work, done 40 years has come to our Society for help. Our ago, we were looking as far downstream as Society president has a most extensive polar the year 2000! And as we look at the names library of his own, and as we go to press it of our experts, only a few are still alive. could be that he will come to her rescue. Life is precarious, we are mere mortals. Another one of the good old boys, American Climate is the tale that has wagged the dog toponymist Fred G. Alberts, Secretary, named Antarctica, going back to and Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, including the Byrd expeditions. Probably 1949-1980, passed away on March 3, 2010, the best known of all Antarctic at the age of 88. Pete Bermel described Fred climatologists, certainly in the States, came as “one of the nicest and gentlest men that I out of Byrd’s First Antarctic Expedition, have ever known”. Pete went on to say “the from Erie, Pennsylvania, Explorer Scout Antarctican community has lost the single- Paul Allman Siple, our Society’s 2nd most knowledgeable person in the field of president. From that same expedition, Henry Antarctic toponymy. Guy Guthridge wrote Harrison, meteorologist, became the very that Fred “continued to provide first certified Consulting Meteorologist of indispensible scholarly service to the US- the American Meteorological Society. One ACAN. The U.S. Board on Geographic could argue that Mort Rubin, Harry Names and worldwide users of the Antarctic Wexler’s right hand during the IGY, was as Gazetteer owe him a large debt for the much climatologist as meteorologist. Joe integrity and wisdom of his guidance and for Fletcher of Fletcher’s Ice Island, T-3, was an the unassailable administrative record he Antarctic climatologist of note. J. Murray created during his tenure as secretary. He Mitchell may have been the first pure was central to the development of climatologist that was ever sent by NSF to international practices for resolving names the South Pole. Bill Spriggs of the National decisions, earning admiration for the United Climate Program Office followed Murray to States throughout the Antarctic Treaty the Pole, going there several years later. System.” John Roscoe, one of our Ancients and The New Zealand Geographic Board named Honorables, has died, although we were Mount Alberts at 73°02’S, 167°52’E after 2 him, and the UK-APC named Alberts Garry McKenzie, Ken Moulton, Sy Roman, Glacier, 66°52’S, 64°53’W after Fred. He Bob Rutford, Kirk Spelman, Don Wiesnet, made summer visits in 1962-63 to Byrd and Rich Wilson) have added contributions Station, the South Pole, Hallett Station, and onto their checks for the Ruth J. Siple McMurdo Station. He compiled and edited Memorial Library Fund. The Fund is doing GEOGRAPHIC NAMES OF THE quite well, and we hope/anticipate that we ANTARCTIC, United States Board on will be able to continue to make annual book Geographic Names, 2nd Edition, 1995. selections and shipments to the South Pole Station. Fred had an abdominal aortic aneurysm that he had known about for a year or more. It Valmar Kurol, our Antarctic musical seems that Fred’s brother had the same specialist from Montreal, has come up with issue a few years ago, had an operation, but ten additional Antarctic CDs which will be lived for only nine more months. Fred shipped off to the Ruth J. Siple Memorial decided that he would not go through with Library. the operation, although it evidently weighed SINFONIA heavily on his mind. When he did not feel ANTARTICA/SHACKLETON/KIRBY/CA well on March 2nd, he committed himself to RR the hospital the following morning. It was SONIC ANTARCTICA by Andrea Poli determined that the aneurysm was bleeding SHACKLETON VOYAGE by Eureka and emergency surgery was performed. ANTARCTIC BALLADS by Cliff When they tried to restart Fred’s heart, it Wedgbury was too weak to handle the blood and ANTARCTICA by KevOz restart. He had a talk with his wife, Marilyn, T & T REAL TRAVELS IN before going into surgery and “he gave her ANTARCTICA by Thomas Downie that little look.” ANTARCTIC SYMPHONY (Compilation) ANTARCTICA by Mr. I If any of you folks are vacationing along ICELIGHT by Michelle Ende coastal Maine this summer, let us know, and WHITEOUT (Motion Picture Soundtrack) we will try to meet you and share a lobster roll. OUR PRESIDENT SPEAKS (Charles Lagerbom) The Antarctican Society is MEMBERSHIP -- GOOD NEWS, BAD working diligently to preserve the history of NEWS.
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