U.S. Antarctic Program Scientist Dies in Snowmobile Fall

October 26, 2016/ News Editor / Antarctica, Climate, Environment, Environmental News Service, Journalism

Published by the Environmental News Service

ARLINGTON, Virginia, October 25, 2016 (ENS) – A Scottish glaciologist with the U.S. Antarctic Program was fatally injured Saturday when the snowmobile he was riding fell into a crevasse. Dr. Gordon Hamilton, 50, of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute, was working on White Island in the Ross Archipelago when the accident occurred.

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