Briefe, Wissenschaft und Wegener Expedition [Letters, Science and the Wegener Expedition, Folder 2 of 2, 1958-1961]

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Series[UMA-SRE-20190020] PRIVATE AND PROFESSIONAL CORRESPONDENCE OF FRITZ LOEWEAccession[1988.0020] Consolidated Papers of Fritz Philipp LoeweIdentifierUMA-ITE-2019002000074Scope and ContentFolder containing assorted correspondence (mainly between Fritz Loewe and his scientific colleagues and regarding responses to enquiries, submission and editing of academic papers and articles). Also contains some personal correspondence, postcards, Christmas and greeting cards. Some names of correspondents are illegible. The voluminous folder was divided into two folders during processing. This section (Part 2) contained correspondence 1958 to 1961, in rough chronological order. This original order has been retained as far as it could be reconstructed.
Topics include: Temperature in the Tonga Trench; Heat Economy; Stefan von Gnielinski (References by Loewe for academic positions); Future of the University of Melbourne Meteorology Department (1960); World Weather Records 1941-1950; Solar radiation records; Transfer of records of Shackleton 1914-17 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (ITAE) to Scott Polar Research Institute; Australian arid zone vegetation; Wave formation; Fog drift; Rain-making rocket; Mass balance studies; Antarctic snow drift; Membership structure British Glaciological Society; Comments on academic papers and articles; Replies to enquiries from the public (e.g. is there "a cross on the moon").
Senders/recipients include: Fritz Loewe; Klaus Wyrtki, CSIRO Marine Laboratory; D.W. Privett, National Institute of Oceanography; C.H.B. Priestley, CSIRO Ancar Sub-Committee of Meteorology; T.C. Lamble, Registrar, University of New England; Registrar, University of Adelaide; K.J. Simpfendorfer, Forests Commission, Victoria; Melbourne University Staff Association; Roger A. Allen, Office of Meteorological Research, Weather Bureau, United States Department of Commerce; F. Möller, Meterologiches Institut, München; C.M. Sapsford, Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, University of New South Wales; S.N. Naqvi, Meteorological Office (Pakistan); A. Keith Jack [Ross Sea Party Shacketon's I.T.A.E.]; Ann Savours, Curator of Manuscripts, Scott Polar Research Institute; Bruce Mason, Department of Geography University of Adelaide; L.B. Quartermain, Antarctic Quarterly News Bulletin; B. Dzerdzeevskii; J.F. Nye, HH Wills Physics Laboratory; Elizabeth Nalz, Deutsches Institut Für Länderkunde; David Ashton, University of Melbourne; Hilda Richardson, British Glaciological Society; J.D. Brooks, A.P.M. Forests Pty. Ltd.; J.S. Turner, CSIRO Radiophysics Laboratory; Antarctic Division; Harry Wexler, Chief Scientist, US-IGY Antarctic Program; B. Gutenberg, Seismological Laboratory, California; Simone Weiller, Expeditions Polaires Françaises; G. de Q. Robin, Director, Scott Polar Research Institute; B. Kyriazopoulos, University of Thessaloniki; R.A. Hamilton, Met. Office, Prestwick Airport, Ayrshire; Malcolm Rigby, Editor, American Meteorological Society Abstracts & Bibliography; B. Imbert, Chef des expéditions antarctiques de l'Année Géophysique; M. Barré; R.H. Levinson, Royal Meteorological Society; Margaret Matthews; Borge Fristrup, Universitetets Geografiske Institut; Clyde Kluckhorn, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University; Expeditions Polaires Françaises (de Terre Adelie postcard); M.J. Goodspeed, Commonwealth of Australia. Department of National Development; Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition (ANARE) (Christmas 1959 card with photograph); Isabella Family (Christmas card); Geophysikalisches Institut, Karl-Mark Universität; Richard Finsterwalder, Institut für Photogrammetrie, Topographie und Allgemeine Kartographie, Munich; Geophysikalisches Institut, University of Hamburg; Frieda and Johannes Georgi (1959); Deutsche Gesellschaft für Polarforschung.Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2019.0020 Unit 0007

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CreatorLoewe, Fritz P.RoleProvenance

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Date1958-1 June 1961

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Previous System ID2019.0020.00074Finding Aid Reference1988.0020 Unit 52/6

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Language of MaterialEnglish (eng)German (ger)French (fre)

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Briefe, Wissenschaft und Wegener Expedition [Letters, Science and the Wegener Expedition, Folder 2 of 2, 1958-1961]