Colin Bull
Colin Bull | |
|---|---|
| Born | Colin Bruce Bradley Bull 13 June 1928 |
| Died | 7 September 2010 (aged 82) Died at sea |
| Alma mater | University of Birmingham |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | glaciology, science administration |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge, Victoria University of Wellington, Ohio State University |
| Thesis | |
Colin Bull (1928–2010) was an English glaciology academic and polar explorer.[1] He was the director of the Institute of Polar Studies who approved the first all-women scientific team to the Antarctic and was awarded the Polar Medal in 1954 and the US Antarctica Service Medal in 1968.[2]
Academic career
[edit]After a PhD titled ' The nature of electron traps in luminescent materials' at the University of Birmingham, Bull moved to the University of Cambridge, Victoria University of Wellington and finally Ohio State University.[2]
Bull died on 7 September 2010 while on a ship en route to Alaska.[3]
Bull's book collection is held as the 'Colin Bull Collection' at Victoria University of Wellington[4] and his oral history at Ohio State University.[5]
Selected works
[edit]- Colin Bull (2005). Innocents in the Arctic: The 1951 Spitsbergen Expedition (First ed.). University of Alaska Press. p. 272. ISBN 978-1-889963-73-0. OCLC 57235993. Wikidata Q140075292.
- Colin Bull (2009). Innocents in the Dry Valleys: An Account of the Victoria University of Wellington Antarctic Expedition, 1958-59 (First ed.). Te Herenga Waka University Press. p. 267. ISBN 978-0-86473-594-2. OCLC 309256291. Wikidata Q140075224.
- C. S. Wright (1993). Colin Bull (ed.). Silas : the Antarctic diaries and memoir of Charles S. Wright. Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-0548-8. OCLC 25550272. Wikidata Q140075318.
- Colin Bull; Michael E. Lipschutz (1983), Workshop on Antarctic Glaciology and Meteorite, LPI technical report, Houston: Lunar and Planetary Institute, OCLC 13852848, Wikidata Q97733269
- Colin Bull (1 August 1969). "The 1978–1980 surge of the Sherman Glacier, south-central Alaska". Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 6 (4): 841–843. Bibcode:1969CaJES...6..841B. doi:10.1139/E69-084. ISSN 1480-3313. Wikidata Q109566146.
- J. M. Palais; I. M. Whillans; C. Bull (1982). "Snow Stratigraphic Studies At Dome C, East Antarctica: An Investigation Of Depositional and Diagenetic Processes". Annals of Glaciology. 3: 239–242. Bibcode:1982AnGla...3..239P. doi:10.1017/S0260305500002846. ISSN 0260-3055. Wikidata Q109903264.
- Lonnie G. Thompson; Wayne L. Hamilton; Colin Bull (1975). "Climatological, Implications of Microparticle Concentrations in the Ice Core From "Byrd" Station, Western Antarctica". Journal of Glaciology. 14 (72): 433–444. doi:10.3189/S0022143000021948. ISSN 0022-1430. Wikidata Q138297267.
References
[edit]- ↑ "Colin Bull". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
- 1 2 Charles Swithinbank (5 November 2010). "Colin Bull". Polar Record. 47 (3): 287–288. doi:10.1017/S0032247410000525. ISSN 0032-2474. Wikidata Q137927480.
- ↑ "Scientist Colin Bull, latter-day polar adventurer, dies". The Seattle Times. 8 October 2010. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
- ↑ "Colin Bull". Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
- ↑ Bull, Colin (27 June 2007). "Interview of Colin Bull by Brian Shoemaker". The Ohio State University – Knowledge Bank. Retrieved 22 February 2026.
- English polar explorers
- People from Hereford
- English geologists
- Alumni of the University of Birmingham
- 1928 births
- 2010 deaths
- 20th-century English explorers
- 21st-century English explorers
- Academics of the University of Cambridge
- Ohio State University faculty
- English expatriates in New Zealand
- English expatriates in the United States
- British expatriate academics in the United States
- Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
- People who died at sea
- British glaciologists