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

SGER：谈论科学与探索：通过口头采访保护美国极地历史遗产

• 批准号: 0070008
• 负责人: Raimund Goerler
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-12-01 至 2003-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0070008&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Talking; Science; Exploration; Preserving

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.

这是一个小型探索性研究赠款项目，用于支持旅行和一些抄写，以支持对大约50名活跃在现代极地地区调查早期的人进行口头采访。美国将很快失去一代开拓性的科学家和探险家，他们引领着极地地区的科学进步。参加1920年S、1930年S和1940年S远征的人，以及第一批卵黄年科学家，确立了今天使用的野战作业方式。他们拥有关于极地考察的发展和历史的丰富信息和观点，这些信息和观点没有被记录下来；他们也在生命的最后几年。受访者中的大多数人已经被联系并同意参加，他们生活在美国的许多地方。利用美国极地协会的成员名单和这个时代的探险队名单，编制了一份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。优先次序将基于年龄、健康状况和受访者的突出地位等因素。该项目的资金将派训练有素、经验丰富的采访者与科学家见面，并制作历史文件，即录音带，这将是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录像带并提供给公众。从这个项目的经验来看，主要研究人员希望为极地科学开发一个持续的口述历史项目。这一建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。作为美国极地协会秘书的Brian Shoemaker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员Raimund Goerler博士将与一个由科学和口述历史方面的知名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协会的志愿者合作。美国极地协会成立于1935年，是一个为探险家和科学家提供极地信息的组织。