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University of Hawai'i |
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October 5, 1999 |
Contact: Jim Manke, 808-956-6106, manke@hawaii.edu; Klaus Keil, 808-956-8761, keil@kahana.pgd.hawaii.edu
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| UH researcher receives national medal for Antarctic service |
Anders Meibom, a post-doctoral fellow in the Hawai'i Institute for Geophysics and Planetology, has been awarded the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States for his participation in the 1995-96 ANSMET expedition. The award, which consists of a medal and a certificate, was presented to Meibom by UH Senior Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate Division Alan Teramura this afternoon in Bachman Hall. Klaus Keil, director of HIGP, arranged for the presentation to be made in a surprise ceremony.
Meibom and other field party members of the Antarctic Meteorite Search Program traveled more than 2,000 km along the Transantarctic Mountains in East Antarctica, according to Ralph Harvey, principal investigator for the program. The season, Harvey says, was exceptionally successful, recovering several hundred specimens from the Grosvenor Mountains and exploring many new icefields. Meibom and the field party served under difficult conditions-living high on the East Antarctic Plateau and enduring isolation, severe weather conditions, rigorous physical duties, all while living for 40 days in a nine-by-nine-foot tent. Harvey cites Meibom's "cheerful and willing contributions to a scientific endeavor of enormous impact in the study of planetary materials."
The Antarctica Service Medal was created by an act of Congress in 1960.
It may be presented to civilians as well as military personnel.
