1. William Stanley Bryce Paterson was a leading British glaciologist.
11 Facts About Stan Paterson
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Stan Paterson mined glacial cores which then provided climate data for the world's last 100,000 years.
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In 1953, Paterson joined the British North Greenland Expedition as a surveyor.
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In 1956, Stan Paterson joined an expedition to South Georgia where he was involved in the first survey of the island's mountain ranges.
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In 1957, Stan Paterson emigrated for work to Montreal, Quebec, Canada, before beginning his studies for a PhD in glaciology at the University of British Columbia the following year.
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In 1958, Stan Paterson joined a Scottish East Greenland Expedition to measure the flow rate of a coastal glacier.
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Stan Paterson completed his PhD in 1962 and was then appointed to the Canadian Polar Continental Shelf Project as a glaciologist.
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Stan Paterson left the PCSP in 1980, and continued his interests of writing and teaching with sabbaticals in Copenhagen, Seattle, Melbourne and China.
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The work Stan Paterson carried out was relevant to the field of planetary science, and in 1992 he was appointed as co-convenor of the NASA and Lunar and Planetary Institute joint Workshop on The Polar Regions of Mars: Geology, Glaciology, and Climate History.
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Stan Paterson went to school at George Watson's College, then studied Mathematics and Physics at the University of Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1949.
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Stan Paterson died on 8 October 2013, at Campbell River, Vancouver Island, Canada.