SGER: Talking Science and Exploration: Preserving the American Heritage of Polar History Through Oral Interviews

这是一个探索性研究项目的小额赠款，用于支持旅行和一些转录，以支持对大约50人的口头采访，他们活跃于现代极地地区调查的早期。美国将很快失去在极地地区引领科学进步的一代先锋科学家和探险家。20世纪20年代、30年代和40年代参加考察的人以及IGY的首批科学家为今天使用的实地行动建立了运作方式。他们拥有丰富的信息和观点的发展和极地调查的历史，没有记录；他们也在生命的最后几年。受访者大多已被联系并同意参与，他们居住在美国各地。根据美国极地协会的成员名单和这个时代的探险队名单，已经制定了一份100多人的工作名单。咨询委员会将帮助确定优先事项并提供指导。优先次序将根据诸如年龄、健康状况和受访者的突出地位等因素确定。该项目的资金将派遣训练有素和经验丰富的采访者与科学家会面，并制作历史文件，即磁带，这将成为科学家和历史学家的持续资源。俄亥俄州立大学将保存这些磁带并提供给公众。从这个项目的经验来看，主要研究人员希望为极地科学发展一个持续的口述历史项目。这一提议是基于迫在眉睫的需求（这一代探险家和科学家的年龄和健康状况）和合作。美国极地学会秘书布莱恩·舒梅克船长和俄亥俄州立大学伯德极地研究中心档案项目首席档案保卫员雷蒙德·戈勒博士将与一个由科学和口述历史方面杰出人士组成的顾问委员会、伯德极地研究中心档案项目的工作人员以及美国极地学会的志愿者一起工作。美国极地学会是一个成立于1935年的组织，旨在为探险家和科学家提供极地信息。

This is a Small Grants for Exploratory Research project to support travel and some transcription in support of oral interviews of approximately 50 people who were active in the early years of modern investigation of polar regions. The United States will soon lose a generation of pioneering scientists and explorers who led the way for scientific advances in polar regions. The people who participated in the expeditions of the 1920's, 1930's and 1940's and those who were the first scientists of the IGY established the modus operandi for field operations in use today. They possess a wealth of information and perspectives about the development and history of polar investigation that was not recorded; they are also in the final years of their lives. The interviewees, most of whom have been contacted and have agreed to participate, live in many places across the United States. A working list of more than one hundred people has been developed by using the membership list of the American Polar Society and expeditionary rosters from this era. An advisory board will help to set priorities and provide guidance. Priorities will be based on such factors as age, state of health, and prominence of the interviewees. Funding from this project will send trained and experienced interviewers to meet with the scientists and to create the historic documents, i.e. the tapes, that will be a continuing resource for scientists and historians. Ohio State University will preserve the tapes and make them available. From the experience of this project, the principal investigators expect to develop a continuing oral history program for polar science. This proposal is based on imminent need (the age and state of health of this generation of explorers and scientists) and on collaboration. Captain Brian Shoemaker, as Secretary of the American Polar Society, and Dr. Raimund Goerler, as Chief Archivist of Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, will work with an Advisory Board of persons prominent in science and in oral history, with staff of the Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, and with volunteers of the American Polar Society, an organization that began in 1935 to provide polar information for explorers and scientists.