Accidents and opportunities: A history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958-79
This paper explores the history of radio echo-sounding (RES), a technique of glaciological surveying that from the late 1960s has been used to examine Antarctica's sub-glacial morphology. Although the origins of RES can be traced back to two accidental findings, its development relied upon the...
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ftumanchesterpub:oai:pure.atira.dk:publications/77b44381-5c00-49fe-a99d-2bad948a8ce8 2023-11-12T04:03:30+01:00 Accidents and opportunities: A history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958-79 Turchetti, Simone Dean, Katrina Naylor, Simon Siegert, Martin 2008-09 https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publications/77b44381-5c00-49fe-a99d-2bad948a8ce8 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087408000903 eng eng info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess Turchetti , S , Dean , K , Naylor , S & Siegert , M 2008 , ' Accidents and opportunities: A history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958-79 ' , British Journal for the History of Science , vol. 41 , no. 3 , pp. 417-444 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087408000903 article 2008 ftumanchesterpub https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087408000903 2023-10-30T09:17:43Z This paper explores the history of radio echo-sounding (RES), a technique of glaciological surveying that from the late 1960s has been used to examine Antarctica's sub-glacial morphology. Although the origins of RES can be traced back to two accidental findings, its development relied upon the establishment of new geopolitical conditions, which in the 1960s typified Antarctica as a continent devoted to scientific exploration. These conditions extended the influence of prominent glaciologists promoting RES and helped them gather sufficient support to test its efficiency. The organization and implementation of a large-scale research programme of RES in Antarctica followed these developments. The paper also examines the deployment of RES in Antarctic explorations, showing that its completion depended on the availability of technological systems of which RES was an integral part. © 2008 British Society for the History of Science. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica The University of Manchester: Research Explorer Antarctic The British Journal for the History of Science 41 3 417 444 |
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This paper explores the history of radio echo-sounding (RES), a technique of glaciological surveying that from the late 1960s has been used to examine Antarctica's sub-glacial morphology. Although the origins of RES can be traced back to two accidental findings, its development relied upon the establishment of new geopolitical conditions, which in the 1960s typified Antarctica as a continent devoted to scientific exploration. These conditions extended the influence of prominent glaciologists promoting RES and helped them gather sufficient support to test its efficiency. The organization and implementation of a large-scale research programme of RES in Antarctica followed these developments. The paper also examines the deployment of RES in Antarctic explorations, showing that its completion depended on the availability of technological systems of which RES was an integral part. © 2008 British Society for the History of Science. |
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Turchetti , S , Dean , K , Naylor , S & Siegert , M 2008 , ' Accidents and opportunities: A history of the radio echo-sounding of Antarctica, 1958-79 ' , British Journal for the History of Science , vol. 41 , no. 3 , pp. 417-444 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087408000903 |
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