Interview of Dale R. Reed by Brian Shoemaker

• Main Author: Reed, Dale R.
• Other Authors: Shoemaker, Brian
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program 2009
• Subjects: Operation Deepfreeze III; Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Interviews; Cosmic rays > Research > History; Ionosphere > Research > History; Reed; Dale R. > Interviews; Antarctic; Argentina; Belgrano; Brice; Byrd; Byrd Station; Edisto; Filchner Ice Shelf; Finn; General Belgrano; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Morse; Reed Ridge; Schlossbach; Thiel Mountains; Tidd; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Alaska; morse
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/37922

The media can be accessed at the links below. Audio Part 1: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/byrd/oral_history/Dale_R_Reed_1.mp3 Audio Part 2: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/byrd/oral_history/Dale_R_Reed_2.mp3 Born: Lakewood, Colorado on June 7 1935. BS Electrical Engineering (57) and MS Electrical Engineering (65), University of Colorado, Boulder. Father was mentor – influenced him to become an engineer. Employed (57) by National Bureau of Standards(NBS) Boulder. First tour(Deep Freeze III) 1957 – 1959, Ellsworth Station, Filchner Ice Shelf, Weddell Sea. Sailed November 1957 from Norfolk, Virginia on AKA-92 USS. Wyandot. Precision Depth Recordings Mid Atlantic Ridge for Lamont Laboratories of Columbia University. Traveled to Antarctica with Cdr. Schlossbach USN(Ret) Relieved the Finn Ronne party which had spent first winter at Ellsworth. Lt. Paul Tidd station Commanding Officer. Isolated under the ice with 40 other intrepid explorers. Cosmic Ray studies for Dr. Robert B. Brode, UC Berkeley and Ionospheric Studies for NBS. Slept in Jamesway science hut with ‘clicking cosmic ray counters.” Communications with families via Amateur Radio(KC4USW) was very important morale booster. In summer of 1959 Argentines arrived aboard icebreaker General Belgrano, One month on the USCGC Edisto traveling from Ellsworth to Buenos Aires, Argentina. Studied geology at the University of Colorado for two months before driving red MGA to Alaska. Second tour(Operation Deep Freeze) Byrd Station 1959–1961. Conducted Ionospheric and Radio Noise research for NBS at Boulder. Very Low Frequency(VLF) research(Whistlers West) for Dr. Robert Helliwell of Stanford University. Daily walks along a rope safety line to the buried Radio Noise and VLF research facilities. Old Byrd Station being crushed as New Byrd was being built. Airborne VLF tent traverse with co-scientists Neil Brice and Oliver Cromwell Morse III. Honored for his Antarctic work by the naming of Reed Ridge in the Thiel Mountains. Conducted(NBS Boulder) scale ...