Volume 24-25, 1976-7 - The Arctic Circle - Home

\DL. }Ofi/ ItIo. 4 TTIE ARCTSC CIRCIJIAR 89l1lr. Irhnrring was awarded tlte Bnrce l,bdal of ttre Scottish GeographicalSociety and Rclzal Plr-ilosophical- Society of Ediribr:rgh in L944, and UrePatron's Itledal of tLre Royal C;eographical Societlz in 1948. He is aFellov,r of se'ueral societies and was appointed an Officer of ttre Orderof Canada in 1974.At 65 he slrovus no sigrns of sloring dcrrarn, and will leave for ttre Yukonand Macl( so sheoncent:ated initially on photeinterpretation and on recondedice obsenrations. This led to a lastilg interest j-n tlre historyof e>ploration. She is tlre 6-author with K.R. Greenaway of"Arctic Canada frcm the Air", 1955. After 1960 she rnade severalarctic trips in icebreakers, i:rcludirq a brief par:Eicipation intle Irbnhatten voyage tlrough Ure Dbrttnrest Passage. She haspartTffitea in a study of ice drirre in Nares Strait, using ashore-based radar to track floes (1971-75) and crcnducted tlre firstsystenratic winter obsenration of ice qcnditions i.:n ttre CanadianArctic, nnking a series of flights over Nares Strait in CanadianForces Argus aircraft and rrsing first a search radar and laterSida,uays-Iooking airborne radar to gattrer inforrnation. Iuloira Dtrrbaris a Fellovs of ttre Royal Society of Canada and was awarded tkrelutrassey l4edal i-:r L972."Late in L977 A.E. Porsild, Thtonas l,lanning, Frank Davies and Diana Rcn^ileywere reconnended for ttre Qr-reen's Silver Jubilee l,leda1 in recognition oftlreir long association witlr Ilre Arcb.ic Circle. AlI for:r were on thefirst executive, and DErs. Ronrley was the first editor of TLre Arctic Circular.