Juneau Icefield Research Project [Motion Picture Film]

• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1948
• Subjects: Glaciers; Men; Digging; Shovels; Surveying equipment; Ice; Snow; Research; Juneau Icefield (Alaska and B.C.); British Columbia; Canada; Juneau Icefield; Taku; glacier; glaciers; Kodiak; Alaska
• Online Access: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/ref/collection/agsnorth/id/13555

The Juneau Icefield Research Project (JIRP), a decade-long (1948-1958) program of glaciological research, was organized and sponsored by the American Geographical Society (AGS) of New York City. JIRP was led by William O. Field, Director of the AGS Department of Exploration and Field Research and su...