Statement by Karl A. Erb, Head of the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs on the Death of Martin (Marty) Bergmann

Statement by Karl A. Erb, Head of the National Science Foundation's Office of Polar Programs on the Death of Martin (Marty) Bergmann
Thu, 01 Sep 2011 09:25:00 -0500

On behalf of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Arctic researchers it supports, I wish to express our collective sadness at the death of Martin ("Marty") Bergmann, director of Canada's Polar Continental Shelf Program and a leading light in Arctic science.

Marty, who died in an air crash last month, was memorialized Aug. 30 at the Winnipeg Convention Center. Such was his stature in Arctic research that the service was Webcast so that the many people whose lives ...

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