Deep Freeze 70 Antarctic Support Activities Antarctic Bibliography ...
Deep Freeze 70 Antarctic Support Activities E. W.
VAN REETH
Captain, U.S. Navy Commander Antarctic Support Activities The unusually harsh weather experienced during the summer created a staggering snow-removal task. Antarctic Support Activities (ASA) maintains some 18,000 feet of ice runways and some 19,000 feet of skiways at Williams Field and Outer Williams Field, plus their associated roadways. Beardmore Camp was established on November 16. Field camps consisting of a single Jamesway were set up at Lassiter Coast and Siple Station, with three Jamesways erected at Byrd Station. Like many other places, McMurdo Station is experiencing environmental problems. Considerable ef fort is being directed toward reducing the area dump to an acceptable level and toward controlling erosion caused by melt run-off. A combined program of refuse management and culvert installation is under way. Food service improved markedly at McMurdo following the opening of the new, modern galley. Over 95,000 meals were served at McMurdo Station and Williams Field between October and February. The tanker Maumee delivered 6,794,000 gallons of petroleum products to the fuel depot on February 1. The depot dispensed 4,700,000 gallons of bulk fuel during the 1969-1970 season, and some 108,000 gallons of petroleum products. As part of the greater McMurdo improvement plan, ASA moved into its new office spaces. The goal is to consolidate the scattered offices and task groups under a few roofs and eliminate unnecessary buildings.
Glaciology Meeting at The Ohio State University GILBERT DEWART
Institute of Polar Studies The Ohio State University A meeting devoted to Problems of glaciology in Marie Byrd Land, sponsored by the Institute of Polar Studies, was held on May 7, 1970, at The Ohio State University. The purpose was to bring together investigators working on different aspects of the West Antarctic ice sheet, so that they could exchange ideas, september—October 1970
bring each other up to date on recent results, and attempt to coordinate future research plans for this area. The following programs were represented: seismic and radio-echo sounding; surface strain-rate measurements; accumulation, snow-firn densification, and surface-topography measurements; and deep drilling, bore-hole logging, and ice-core studies. John W. Clough, Geophysical and Polar Research Center, University of Wisconsin, described the program of sonic logging in the Byrd Station deep drill hole and radio-echo sounding in the vicinity of Byrd Station during the 1969-1970 season. Anthony J. Gow, U. S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, presented recent results on ice-crystal orientation, gas-bubble content of ice, oxygen isotopes, and temperature/depth relations from cores taken from the Byrd deep drill hole. William H. Chapman, U. S. Geological Survey, discussed the Byrd Station Strain Net project. Ian Whillans, Institute of Polar Studies, described the detailed surface strain measurements and related surface studies undertaken in the 1969-1970 season in the region of the BSSN. Terence j. Hughes. Institute of Polar Studies, presented a hypothesis involving convective currents within the ice sheet, and Proposed methods of testing it.
Antarctic Bibliography 1951-1961 Antarctic Bibliography 1951-1961 is now available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, at $4.25 per copy. This 349-page hard-bound volume, edited by Geza Thuronyi, contains 4,773 citations of publications appearing in 1951-1961. Indexes are included to subjects, authors, and geographic areas.
New Translation of Soviet Polar Literature Another monograph on polar research has been translated from Russian for the Polar Information Service of the National Science Foundation under the PL-480 program. Priced at $3.00 per copy, it is available from the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. Soviet Antarctic Research 1956-1966; Proceedings of a Conference. Edited by V. A. Bugaev. 1967. 218 p. (TT 69-55004). 207
VAN REETH
Captain, U.S. Navy Commander Antarctic Support Activities The unusually harsh weather experienced during the summer created a staggering snow-removal task. Antarctic Support Activities (ASA) maintains some 18,000 feet of ice runways and some 19,000 feet of skiways at Williams Field and Outer Williams Field, plus their associated roadways. Beardmore Camp was established on November 16. Field camps consisting of a single Jamesway were set up at Lassiter Coast and Siple Station, with three Jamesways erected at Byrd Station. Like many other places, McMurdo Station is experiencing environmental problems. Considerable ef fort is being directed toward reducing the area dump to an acceptable level and toward controlling erosion caused by melt run-off. A combined program of refuse management and culvert installation is under way. Food service improved markedly at McMurdo following the opening of the new, modern galley. Over 95,000 meals were served at McMurdo Station and Williams Field between October and February. The tanker Maumee delivered 6,794,000 gallons of petroleum products to the fuel depot on February 1. The depot dispensed 4,700,000 gallons of bulk fuel during the 1969-1970 season, and some 108,000 gallons of petroleum products. As part of the greater McMurdo improvement plan, ASA moved into its new office spaces. The goal is to consolidate the scattered offices and task groups under a few roofs and eliminate unnecessary buildings.
Glaciology Meeting at The Ohio State University GILBERT DEWART
Institute of Polar Studies The Ohio State University A meeting devoted to Problems of glaciology in Marie Byrd Land, sponsored by the Institute of Polar Studies, was held on May 7, 1970, at The Ohio State University. The purpose was to bring together investigators working on different aspects of the West Antarctic ice sheet, so that they could exchange ideas, september—October 1970
bring each other up to date on recent results, and attempt to coordinate future research plans for this area. The following programs were represented: seismic and radio-echo sounding; surface strain-rate measurements; accumulation, snow-firn densification, and surface-topography measurements; and deep drilling, bore-hole logging, and ice-core studies. John W. Clough, Geophysical and Polar Research Center, University of Wisconsin, described the program of sonic logging in the Byrd Station deep drill hole and radio-echo sounding in the vicinity of Byrd Station during the 1969-1970 season. Anthony J. Gow, U. S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, presented recent results on ice-crystal orientation, gas-bubble content of ice, oxygen isotopes, and temperature/depth relations from cores taken from the Byrd deep drill hole. William H. Chapman, U. S. Geological Survey, discussed the Byrd Station Strain Net project. Ian Whillans, Institute of Polar Studies, described the detailed surface strain measurements and related surface studies undertaken in the 1969-1970 season in the region of the BSSN. Terence j. Hughes. Institute of Polar Studies, presented a hypothesis involving convective currents within the ice sheet, and Proposed methods of testing it.
Antarctic Bibliography 1951-1961 Antarctic Bibliography 1951-1961 is now available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402, at $4.25 per copy. This 349-page hard-bound volume, edited by Geza Thuronyi, contains 4,773 citations of publications appearing in 1951-1961. Indexes are included to subjects, authors, and geographic areas.
New Translation of Soviet Polar Literature Another monograph on polar research has been translated from Russian for the Polar Information Service of the National Science Foundation under the PL-480 program. Priced at $3.00 per copy, it is available from the Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, Virginia 22151. Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. Soviet Antarctic Research 1956-1966; Proceedings of a Conference. Edited by V. A. Bugaev. 1967. 218 p. (TT 69-55004). 207
