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Immediate report on the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition 1959-60: VUWAE 3
2. PERSONNEL
2. PERSONNEL
- R.W. Balham, Ph.D., leader. (Lecturer in Zoology - biologist, meteorologist)
- R.H. Wheeler, M.A., deputy-leader. (Lecturer in Geography - surveyor)
- G. Gibson. (Student in Geology - geologist)
- A. Allen. (Student in Geology - geologist)
- I. Willis. (Student in Physics - geophysicist)
There was one more in the party than there had been the previous year. This enabled the expedition to comply with an important rule of Anterctic travel - that field parties should consist of at least two men - without interfering with the activities of the biologist, whose work lies mainly in the freshwaters of the ice-free valley floor, and who, in the previous year's four-man expedition, had frequently been called away from his work to make up two-man survey parties into the field. The extra man permitted the biologist to carry on with his work in the valley while the two geologists, Gibson and Allen, working as one team, and the surveyor and geophysicist, Wheeler and Willis, working as another, carried out trips into the field. As a further safety measure, the programme was planned so that these two field parties would be working in the same area at the same time.