John Hainsworth Mercer, 1922-1987

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Authors: Holdsworth, Gerald, Blake, Jr., Weston
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1988
• Subjects: Biographies; Mercer; John Hainsworth; 1922-1987; Glaciology; Ice caps; Ice sheets; Climate change; Scientists; Mathematical models; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Polar regions; Grinnell Glacier; Terra Nivea Ice Cap; Byrd; Nivea; Terra Nivea; Arctic; Baffin; Byrd Polar Research; Byrd Polar Research Center; Ice cap; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64766

From 1951 until 1954, Mercer studied at McGill University. His Ph.D. thesis, . was based on field work carried out in the vicinity of the Grinnell and Terra Nivea ice caps on southern Baffin Island. . Mercer was highly motivated by field work and literally thrived on it. Typically, and often to the...