Interview of Robert Earl Feeney by Brian Shoemaker

• Main Author: Feeney, Robert Earl
• Other Authors: Shoemaker, Brian
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program 2005
• Subjects: Biology > Antarctica; Antarctica > Discovery and exploration > Interviews; Feeney; Robert Earl > Interviews; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Byrd; McMurdo Station; Percy; Crozier; Cape Crozier; Sladen; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1811/6049

Dr. Robert Ingram, pp. 3, 19 Admiral Richard Byrd, pp.3, 5, 19 Admiral Richard Black, pp. 3 Kenneth Moulton, pp. 3, 19, 31 Sir Charles Percy Wright, pp. 4 Robert Falcon Scott, pp. 4, 23, 25-26, 29 Dr. Thomas Poulter, pp. 5 Professor Donald F. Wohlsclag, pp. 5, 6 Art DeVries, pp. 6, 10 Dr. William F. “Bill” Sladen, pp. 7 Roger Torry Peterson, pp. 7 Marlin Perkins, pp. 7 Dr. Larry Gould, pp. 8 Dr. Herman Miller, pp. 9 Dick Allison, pp. 9 Dave Osuga, pp. 12, 15 Professor Yin Yeh, pp. 13 Professor Kjell Kleppe, pp. 13 Professor Chino, pp. 17 Roald Amundsen, pp. 23-25 _________ Greeley, pp. 25 _________Cook, pp. 26 _________Ross, pp. 26 Tom Jones, pp. 33 Larry Gould, pp. 33-35 The media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/byrd/oral_history/Bob_Feeney.mp3 Dr. Feeney was in the Antarctic in the early 1960s. His educational and professional pursuits are discussed, including time at Northwestern University, Wisconsin, Harvard Medical School, the University of Nebraska and the University of California Davis. Feeney’s specific research interest at the time of his Antarctic exploration centered on the evolutionary biochemistry of eggs. In the Fall of 1964, Feeney was contacted by the National Science Foundation (through the encouragement of Admiral Black and Dr. Ingram) and was sent to Antarctica to study penguin eggs. He was funded through the Navy. Feeney’s meeting and interaction with Dr. Thomas Poulter is described. The process of gathering eggs and freezing the egg whites at Cape Crozier is discussed. His discovery of a new blood protein in the peguin eggs is explained, along with the naming of this protein (penalbumin). Feeney also began to work in partnership with Professor Donald F. Wohlsclag, who was gathering and studying fish. Feeney continued to travel to the Antarctic each year for the next 6 years, bringing students and colleagues with him. The sample collection and shipping from McMurdo Station to Travis Air Force Base in California is described. Feeney goes into great detail ...