{"title":"Notes from the Icehouse: Mixed Methods, Dry Valleys, New Insights","authors":"Stephen Chignell","doi":"10.3828/whp.ge.63830891682096","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"!e McMurdo Dry Valleys are a polar desert and the largest icefree region of Antarctica. !ey were discovered in 1903 on the \"rst expedition of British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who, seeing the bare rock and lack of plants, called the area ‘a valley of the dead’. While Scott and his party pressed on for the South Pole during his second, and ultimately fatal, Antarctic expedition, a team led by Australian geologist Gri#th Taylor spent the \"rst week of February 1911 exploring, photographing and surveying the Dry Valleys.1 No one visited the region thereafter until it became a focus of research during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in","PeriodicalId":42763,"journal":{"name":"Global Environment","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3000,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Global Environment","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.3828/whp.ge.63830891682096","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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!e McMurdo Dry Valleys are a polar desert and the largest icefree region of Antarctica. !ey were discovered in 1903 on the "rst expedition of British explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott, who, seeing the bare rock and lack of plants, called the area ‘a valley of the dead’. While Scott and his party pressed on for the South Pole during his second, and ultimately fatal, Antarctic expedition, a team led by Australian geologist Gri#th Taylor spent the "rst week of February 1911 exploring, photographing and surveying the Dry Valleys.1 No one visited the region thereafter until it became a focus of research during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in
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The half-yearly journal Global Environment: A Journal of History and Natural and Social Sciences acts as a forum and echo chamber for ongoing studies on the environment and world history, with special focus on modern and contemporary topics. Our intent is to gather and stimulate scholarship that, despite a diversity of approaches and themes, shares an environmental perspective on world history in its various facets, including economic development, social relations, production government, and international relations. One of the journal’s main commitments is to bring together different areas of expertise in both the natural and the social sciences to facilitate a common language and a common perspective in the study of history. This commitment is fulfilled by way of peer-reviewed research articles and also by interviews and other special features. Global Environment strives to transcend the western-centric and ‘developist’ bias that has dominated international environmental historiography so far and to favour the emergence of spatially and culturally diversified points of view. It seeks to replace the notion of ‘hierarchy’ with those of ‘relationship’ and ‘exchange’ – between continents, states, regions, cities, central zones and peripheral areas – in studying the construction or destruction of environments and ecosystems.
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