The David C. Nutt Oral History, dated 2002, contains audio recordings, administrative information, and transcripts of the interview between Nutt and Brian Shoemaker of the American Polar Society conducted on October 24, 2002. This interview was a part of a series of polar oral histories sponsored by 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 how Nutt accompanied Captain Robert (Bob) Bartlett on several expeditions to Greenland aboard the schooner Effie M. Morrissey, Nutt's experiences in the United States Navy during World War II including serving on the USS Bowdoin in west Greenland and on the USS Sumner in the western Pacific, his involvement with Operation Windmill assisting with the geographical surveys aboard the USS Edisto, his subsequent research expeditions on the schooner Blue Dolphin in Greenland and Labrador, Canada, and how he served as a geographical consultant for a project to export iron ore from Ungave Bay, Canada.

The Robert H. Rutford Oral History, dated 1984 and 1999-2001, contains audio recordings, administrative information, and transcripts of the interview between Rutford and former Ohio State University Polar Archivist Raimund Goerler conducted on February 15-16, 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 Rutford's 25 trips to Antarctica in various capacities as a geologist and geographer, his work on the Ross Ice Shelf project, and his time as an administrator in Antarctic related offices such as the Office of Polar Programs (OPP), the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), and the National Science Foundation (NSF).