Ernest Leffingwell, Scientist with a Fan Club

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Sep 5, 2014   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

One hundred years ago, a group of men sailed to the northern coast of Alaska to find a land mass rumored to protrude from the Arctic Ocean. They did not find the land. After wintering in the north everyone hurried back to warmer places. Except for Ernest Leffingwell. Leffingwell, a geologist, teacher, and a veteran […]