Biographer Profiles Scientist-Explorer of Northeast Alaska

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Oct 30, 2017   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

In the early 1990s, Janet Collins was hiking in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge when she saw “Camp 163” labeled on her map. Intrigued, she later looked up Camp 163 in Donald Orth’s Dictionary of Alaska Place Names. Her curiosity led her to Ernest Leffingwell, the subject of a biography she has written and Washington […]