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Dr. Richard L. "Dick" Cameron
B. 7/11/1930 New Hampshire

Received a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of New Hampshire, including credits for polar studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He did his graduate studies in glaciology and Quaternary studies at the University of Stockholm and received a Ph.D in Geology from Ohio State University.

He wintered at Wilkes Station, Antarctica, in 1957 as Chief Glaciologist. He has performed glaciological field work in Antarctica, Greenland, Norway, Sweden and Canada.

In the Antarctic winter 1979 Dr. Cameron and his son Andrew Wintered Over for months at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. They discussed this experience in a New York Times Article in January 1982

His positions held include Chief of the Geotechnics Branch, Terrestrial Sciences Laboratory at Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories; Assistant to the Director, Institute of Polar Studies, Ohio State University, as well as Assistant Dean of University College and Assistant Dean for International Programs; Program Manager for International Organizations, International Programs with the National Science Foundation (NSF); and Program Manager for Glaciology, Division of Polar Programs, NSF.

More recently, he has acted as an adviser to the NASA Office of Exploration in their research efforts to study planetary missions with long duration flights and the impact of extreme environments on habitat design for the Moon and Mars. He Acted Chairman of the Biological Science Department at Webster University; Academic Director of Webster University’s campus in Leiden, The Netherlands. He acts as a staff member / lecturer on tour ships cruising the Northwest Passage, Spitsbergen, and the Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia and The Falkland Islands. He is a Past President of the American Polar Society. Dr. Cameron has also edited and contributed to many books on Arctic and Antarctic Exploration as well as textbooks and papers on Glaciology,Geology and the sciences in the Arctic Regions.

Cameron Island (-66.21667°N, 110.6°W) is a small island just north of Hailstorm Island, in the Swain Islands. This region was photographed from the air by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump (1946-47), ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) (1956), and the Soviet expedition (1956). The island was included in a 1957 ground survey by C.R. Eklund, who named it for Dr. Richard L. Cameron, chief glaciologist at Wilkes Station, 1957.