Albert P. Crary - Contributions

Contributions

Dr. Crary contributed in a variety of important ways to his field including:

• Chief Scientist for Arctic ice island T3, 1952 - 1955
• Established the United States Geological Headquarters for the International Geophysical Year, 1955
• Deputy Leader of United States science during the International Geophysical Year, 1957
• Leader of the U.S. seismic traverse of Ross Ice Shelf, 1957-58
• Leader, geophysical traverse W from Little America V, up Skelton Glacier to the Victoria Land plateau and W along the 78 parallel to c. 13130E, 1958-59
• Leader, geophysical traverse from McMurdo Station via Skelton Glacier to the South Pole, 1960-61
• Chief Scientist, United States Antarctic Research Program, 1960 - 1968
• Deputy then Director, Division of Environmental Sciences, National Science Foundation, 1969 - 1978
• Member of ACAN, 1961-76 (Chairman, 1974–76)

He worked with many notable scientists and famous institutions:

• Dr. Maurice Ewing of Columbia University and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Assisted Dr. James Peoples at MOGUL (Project Mogul) as the Field Operations Director using meteorological balloons to experiment with different types of equipment to collect and transmit sound waves in the upper atmosphere (Roswell, New Mexico Incident- see )