The Benjamin Remington Oral History, dated 2000 to 2001, contains audio recordings, administrative information, and transcripts of the interview between Remington and Brian Shoemaker of the American Polar Society conducted on February 25, 2000. This interview was a part of a series of polar oral histories sponsored by the American Polar Society and Ohio State University's Byrd Polar Research Center Archival Program, with funding from the National Science Foundation. Major topics discussed include Remington's time as a meteorologist in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze II and during the International Geophysical Year (IGY) 1958-1959. He reminisced about winters in Antarctica, meteorological data taken while there, and friendships with other men who were there at the same time, as well as describing experiments involving weather balloons.
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