On Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m. at the Roselle Center for the Arts on the Newark campus, Lawson Brigham, deputy director of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, penned his name on The American Geographical Society's Fliers' and Explorers' Globe. As a captain in the U.S. Coast Guard, Brigham commanded the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea on the first voyage to the polar limits of the global ocean, from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica to the North Pole. Brigham will be introduced by representatives of the American Geographical Society. The historic globe-signing kicks off "The William S. Carlson International Polar Year Events," a series of public lectures, receptions, research seminars, art exhibits, and film showings at UD, to increase public awareness of the world's polar regions. The series fittingly is named after Carlson, UD's president from 1946 to 1950, who was an active polar researcher himself.
