Chester Charles Langway

Responsible for launching the era of the deep ice core drilling programs. Was the force behind the push at the SIPRE and CRREL laboratories that started the deep drilling program at Camp Century in northwest Greenland. He recruited scientists from other disciplines and countries to work on ice cores and worked closely with them. As a result, international teams of scientists have extracted fundamentally important information from ice cores. Studies from these ice cores have provided detailed climatological and other environmental data, over geological time period (including the Holocene and late Pleistocene ages), on the regional and global conditions existing at the time of snow deposit. The results reveal man's impact upon the changing environment, and long term evidence regarding abrupt global climate changes, as well as the discovery of the Dansgaard-Oeschger Event.