Dr. Paul C. Dalrymple passed away peacefully in Rockland, Maine on April 24, 2020. He was the rock and soul of the Antarctican Society. He served as newsletter editor from the 1970’s to the early 2000’s and was treasurer for the Society for many years. He will be dearly missed.

To read an obituary published in the Penobscot Bay Pilot newspaper, click HERE.

To see a one-hour video autobiography of Dr. Dalrymple’s life, click HERE.

To see a short film on Dr. Dalrymple’s life made by Forrest Banks, click HERE (copyright Forrest Banks).

This is the autobiography that Paul wrote:

“By education a geographer (BS Clark University, MS Syracuse University, PhD, Boston University)  By experience a physical geographer who in life worked as the resident observer at Harvard University’s Blue Hill Observatory,  as a cloud observer at the Mt. Washington NH Observatory, as a meteorologist with the US Weather Bureau’s North Atlantic Weather Project, as a physical oceanographer with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution working on the ALBATROSS III, studying the North Atlantic’s Gulf Stream System, as a glacial meteorologist at Dye II Station on the Greenland Ice Sheet, as a dropsonde observer on a research aircraft participating in the International Indian Ocean Expedition, as the micrometeorologist at Little America V in 1957, as the micrometeorologist at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in 1958,  as At-Home micrometeorological project manager, Plateau Station, Antarctica, 1966-68as project manager of Project TREND (Tropical Environmental Data) in Thailand, as the Dept. of Army’s representative on Intergovernmental Study on Climate and Food at National War College, Ft. McNair, as the DoD representative on the drafting of the first US National Climate Plan. He retired in 1989.”