b'PeopleNewsVale: William Francis Budd (19382022)Dunera from England to Australia in 1940. He ended up in the Department of Meteorology in Melbourne, and became Reader in charge of the department when Dr Loewe retired in 1966.Bill wrote the 1961 Law Dome data into the thesis which earned him a Master of Science from Melbourne University, and in 1964 headed south again, this time to Mawson Station, which he used as a base to study the Amery Ice Shelf east of Mawson. Over the following years he translated his two years of physical observations, supplemented by further field work by other workers on both Law Dome and the Amery Ice Shelf, into mathematical theories, and put them into a PhD thesis with the title The Dynamics of Ice Masses. He received his doctorate in 1969, and the same year became the leader of the Antarctic Divisions Glaciology Section, which hired a young geophysicist named Les Denham in 1969 to continue Bills 1961 work on Law Dome during 1970.Over the following decade the Glaciology Section, located within the Universitys Meteorology Department, expanded from two or three people to a team of fifteen or more. Bill introduced and led studies of ice sheet mass budget, ice rheology, ice sheet thermodynamics, iceberg distribution and drift, surging glaciers, drifting snow, sea ice-climate Bill Budd interactions and much more. He initiated Australian ice core drilling (initially All of geoscience suffered a loss oninitiated by American scientists duringfor study of ice dynamics and later for January 23 with the death of Williamthe International Geophysical Yearpalaeo-climate research), radio echo Bill Budd. He was the face of Antarctic(1957-58), and included several monthssounding of ice thickness and satellite glaciology for half a century. of measurements east of Wilkes over Lawremote sensing of ice. He started Dome, a local icecap 200km in diameter,Australian ice core drilling, radio echo Bill was born on October 16, 1938, in theseparated from the main icecap by thesounding of ice thickness, and remote decayed mining town of Mount Hope,Totten and Vanderford glaciers. sensing of ice from satellites. These between Hillston and Cobar, NSW. Heprogrammes, which Bill initiated more studied at Sydney University, graduatingReturning to Melbourne in early 1962,than 50 years ago, still form the core of with a Bachelor of Science in AppliedBill started writing up the results of thisAustralian glaciological research.Mathematics, and continued to earnwork under guidance from Fritz Loewe a Diploma of Education to qualify as aand Uwe Radok. As a Jew, Dr LoeweIn the mid-1970s, Bill added general-high school mathematics teacher. Afterhad fled Germany to England in 1934,circulation models for climate and only one year of teaching, he joined thewhere he worked at the Scott Polarclimate/ice-sheet response to his Australian Antarctic Division in 1960 asResearch Institute in Cambridge. Fromrepertoire. In 1979, the University of glaciologist for the wintering expeditionCambridge, Loewe was recruited in 1937Melbourne established a new chair of at Wilkes Station. to start a department of meteorologyMeteorology, and Bill resigned from the at the University of Melbourne. He wasAntarctic Division to become the first In early 1961, he sailed from Melbournean experienced glaciologist as well as aProfessor of Meteorology, while retaining on the ship to Wilkes, at that time a jointmeteorologist, having wintered on thehis strong links with the Antarctic Australian-USA station. He spent muchGreenland icecap in 1930-31, losing allDivision programme.of the year making meteorological andhis toes to frostbite.glaciological observations, and helpingBills research through the 1980s included with geophysical measurements as well.Uwe Radok was a younger German, whomodelling of ice sheet changes through These were a continuation of studieswas one of the refugees brought on theice ages, simulations of the response APRIL 2022 PREVIEW 12'