Norbert Untersteiner (February 24, 1926 – March 14, 2012) was one of the pioneers of modern polar science research, a professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the

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, and an AAAS Fellow. Born in

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, Italy, he led the Arctic Ice Dynamics Joint Experiment (AIDJEX) in the early 1970s. In 1979, he formed the Arctic Buoy Program as a contribution to the

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. He then formed the Polar Science Center (PSC) at the University of Washington and directed it from 1981 until 1988. Untersteiner died of

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in March 2012, in

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