Austin Post (photographer) explained

Birth Date:	1922 3, df=yes
Known For:	Aerial photography of the mountains glaciers of North America

Austin S. Post (16 March 1922 – 12 November 2012^[1]) was a photographer, glaciologist, and mountaineer known for his aerial photography of the mountains and glaciers of North America, particularly the North Cascades of Washington and Glacier Bay, Alaska.

Post worked for many years as a research scientist for the United States Geological Survey and was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 2004, despite not having graduated from high school.^{[2] [3]} Many of his photographs were used in the Cascade Alpine Guide series by Fred Beckey.^{[4] [5] [6]} Post named Bradford Washburn as a photographic influence.^[2] He lived on Vashon Island, Washington.^[2]

Selected publications

• Book: Post, Austin . Don Richardson . Wendell V. Tangborn . F. L. Rosselot . Geological Survey Professional Paper 705—A: Inventory of Glaciers in the North Cascades, Washington . 1971 . 2009-06-11 . United States Geological Survey. 10.3133/pp705A .
• Book: Brugman, Melinda M. . Austin Post . USGS Circular 850-D: Effects of Volcanism on the Glaciers of Mount St. Helens . 1981 . United States Geological Survey . 2007-03-07 . 22 February 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070222114934/http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/cir/cir850D/ . dead .
• Book: Post, Austin . LaChapelle, Edward R. . Edward LaChapelle . Glacier Ice . . 1971 . 2nd . 2000 . 0-295-97910-0 .

Selected ascents

• First ascent of the Southeast Ridge of the White Princess, Eastern Alaska Range, 1950, Austin Post, Gottfried Ehrenburg, Don MacAskill, Lawrence E. Nielsen^[7]

External links

• Austin Post at the USGS Publications Warehouse
• Austin Post at the USGS Photographic Library

Notes and References

1. http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=161311627 "Austin S. Post Obituary." The New York Times, 29 November 2012.
2. Austin Post: Legendary Chronicler of Glaciers . John . Scurlock . Northwest Mountaineering Journal . 4 . Summer 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080925113344/http://www.mountaineers.org/nwmj/07/071_Post1.html . 2008-09-25 .
3. Web site: Vashon Island scientist's lifelong love affair with glaciers . 2004-07-21 . . 2009-06-11.
4. Book: Beckey, Fred . Cascade Alpine Guide . 1 . Columbia River to Stevens Pass . 1973 . 3rd . 2000 . Seattle, Washington . . Fred Beckey . 0-89886-577-8.
5. Book: Beckey, Fred . Cascade Alpine Guide . 2 . Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass . 1973 . 3rd . 2003 . Seattle, Washington . Mountaineers Books . Fred Beckey . 0-89886-152-7.
6. Book: Beckey, Fred . Cascade Alpine Guide . 3 . Rainy Pass to Fraser River . 1981 . 2nd . 1995 . Seattle, Washington . Mountaineers Books . Fred Beckey . 0-89886-423-2.
7. Eastern Alaska Range . . Nielsen . Lawrence E. . 1952 . 0065-6925 . 362–364.