Tuesday, October 19, 2004
He warned of global warming back in the '60s - Obituaries - www.smh.com.au: "Gordon Robin, Polar scientist, 1921-2004
Gordon Robin, who has died aged 83, was director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University for 24 years, during which he played an important part in the measurement of the land surface below the Antarctic ice cap.
One of his most inspired decisions was to advance the charting of glacier and ice cap thickness by airborne radio echo-sounding rather than explosions conducted on the surface. The institute's radio echo-sound equipment was first used successfully from the air in the Canadian Arctic. After the preliminary results were published in Nature, Robin and his radar engineer took part in flights covering more than 32,000 kilometres by a US Navy C-130. The result was the under-ice mapping of almost the entire Antarctic continent in a folio of maps published by the institute in 1983."
Gordon Robin, who has died aged 83, was director of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge University for 24 years, during which he played an important part in the measurement of the land surface below the Antarctic ice cap.
One of his most inspired decisions was to advance the charting of glacier and ice cap thickness by airborne radio echo-sounding rather than explosions conducted on the surface. The institute's radio echo-sound equipment was first used successfully from the air in the Canadian Arctic. After the preliminary results were published in Nature, Robin and his radar engineer took part in flights covering more than 32,000 kilometres by a US Navy C-130. The result was the under-ice mapping of almost the entire Antarctic continent in a folio of maps published by the institute in 1983."
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