G02184 International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958: Drifting Station Alpha Documentary Film Untersteiner, N. and F. G. van der Hoeven. International Geophysical Year, 1957-1958: Drifting Station Alpha Documentary Film 2009-07-31 Boulder, Colorado USA NSIDC: National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org/data/g02184.html http://dx.doi.org/10.7265/N5MK69TW Investigator Norbert Untersteiner

University of Washington

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Delft Univerisyt of Technology

Department of Geophysics

EARTH SCIENCE Cryosphere Sea Ice Sea Ice Motion EARTH SCIENCE Oceans Sea Ice Sea Ice Motion Climatology/Meteorology/Atmosphere Arctic Sea Ice Drifting Station Polar Sea Ice Sea Ice Sea Ice Drift Sea Ice Motion GROUND STATIONS 1957-04-01 1958-11-30 complete 80 87 110 180 OCEAN ARCTIC OCEAN English NSIDC National Snow and Ice Data Center http://nsidc.org Data Center Contact NSIDC User Services nsidc@nsidc.org 1 303 492-6199 1 303 492-2468

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Boulder CO 80309-0449 USA DVD Cabaniss, G. H. 1962. Geophysical Data from U.S. Arctic Ocean Drift Stations, 1957-1960. Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories AFCRL-62-683. Cottell, I. B. 1960. United States Research at Drifting Stations in the Arctic Ocean. Polar Record 10/(66): 269-274. Crary, A. P. 1966. Air Force Research Achievements on Drifting Stations. Arctic Drifting Stations, edited by J. E. Sater, Arctic Institute of North America, Warrenton, VA: 113-125. Leary, W. M., and L. A. LeSchack. 1996. Project Coldfeet, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis: 196 pp. Fletcher, J. O. 1966. Origin and Early Utilization of Aircraft-Supported Drifting Stations. Arctic Drifting Stations, edited by J.E. Sater, Arctic Institute of North America, Warrenton, VA: 1-13. Salter, J. E. 1968. Arctic Drifting Stations, Arctic Institute of North America, Washington, D.C.

This film documents the activities that occurred on Drifting Station Alpha in the Arctic Ocean during the International Geophysical Year, 1957 to 1958. The film is narrated by project leader, Norbert Untersteiner, and chronicles the life of the team as they built their camp and set up experiments. Station Alpha was the first long-term scientific base on arctic pack ice operated by a Western country. At the time of its establishment, Russia had already operated six drifting ice camps of this kind. However, due to the strategic importance and sensitivity of the Arctic Basin, little information from these early stations had reached the West. The documentary was filmed and produced by Frans van der Hoeven (Senior Scientist at Station Alpha) and Norbert Untersteiner (Scientific Leader of Station Alpha). Station Alpha drifted in an area of the Arctic ocean located 500 km north of Barrow, Alaska USA from April 1957 to November 1958; the film covers this entire time period. Digitized copies of the film are available on DVD.

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