RICHARD L. CAMERON, Ph.D.
Past Vice President, American Polar Society

Dick Cameron received a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of New Hampshire, including credits for polar studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. He did his graduate studies in glaciology and Quaternary studies at the University of Stockholm and received a Ph.D in Geology from Ohio State University.

He wintered at Wilkes Station, Antarctica, in 1957. He has performed glaciological field work in Antarctica, Greenland, Norway, Sweden and Canada.

His positions held include Chief of the Geotechnics Branch, Terrestrial Sciences Laboratory at Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories; Assistant to the

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Director, Institute of Polar Studies, Ohio State University, as well as Assistant Dean of University College and Assistant Dean for International Programs; Program Manager for International Organizations, International Programs with the National Sciecne Foundation (NSF); and Program Manager for Glaciology, Division of Polar Programs, NSF.

More recently, he has acted as an advisor to the NASA Office of Exploration in their research efforts to study planetary missions with long duration flights and the impact of extreme environments on habitat design for the Moon and Mars. He is Acting Chairman of the Biological Science Department at Webster University; Academic Director of Webster University’s campus in Leiden, The Netherlands; and staff member on tour ships cruising the Northwest Passage, Spitsbergen, and the Drake Passage to the Antarctic Peninsula, South Georgia and The Falkland Islands.