National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Polar Research.
NRC Committee on Polar Research records, 1955-1968.
Collection includes correspondence, reports, and meeting minutes. Important topics: Antarctic Research, Arctic Research, Glaciology, Geodesy, Geophysics, International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU), International Geophysical Year (IGY), Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research, Special Committee on Antarctic Research.
Established in early 1958, the extradivisional Committee on Polar Research grew out of the Academy's U. S. National Committee for the International Geophysical Year. Following up on the USNA's direction of IGY activities at the North and South Poles, the Committee developed program recommendations for the NSF regarding scientific research in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. The Committee also served as the U. S. National Committee for ICSU's Special (later, Scientific) Committee on Antarctic Research. In 1975, the Committee was reorganized as the Polar Research Board under the National Research Council's Assembly of Mathermatical and Physical Sciences.
International Council of Scientific Unions.
Geodesy.
Geophysics
Glaciology
International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958.
Antarctica -- Research.
Arctic regions -- Research.
Minutes. aat
Reports. aat
AIP-ICOS
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