Project "Snow Cornice": The Establishment of the Seward Glacial Research Station

Authors

  • Walter A. Wood

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic4005

Keywords:

Airplanes, Arctic Institute of North America. Project Snow Cornice, Biology, Geology, Glaciology, Mapping, Meteorology, Research, Research stations, Snow, Seward Glacier, Yukon/Alaska, Malaspina Glacier, Alaska, Vancouver, Mount, Alaska/Yukon, Yakutat

Abstract

Sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America, directed by the author, and staffed by Canadian and American personnel, this airborne expedition established a semi-permanent research station in the drainage basin of Seward Glacier close to the Alaska-Yukon boundary, where in July-Aug. 1948, a program of glaciological, biological, meteorological and mapping research was begun. Dr. Wood gives here a statement of the program, remarks on the airplane transportation used, and some "broad conclusions from the first field season," concerning the glacier, the weather, and animal life of the region.

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Published

1948-01-01

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 2 (1948): Autumn: 73–144

Section

Articles