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Charles H. Lagerbom worked in Antarctica in the 1990s with NSF-funded glacial geology research teams from University of Maine Quaternary Institute, now Climate Change Institute. A published author and avid polar/maritime book collector, Charles has frequently written, lectured and made presentations on cruise/expedition ships, sailing vessels and ashore about the history, life, politics and science of Antarctica, Cape Horn and South Atlantic as well as colonial Maine and New England maritime history and archaeology. He is author of The Fifth Man: The Life of H.R. Bowers (Caedmon Publishing 1991) and Whaling in Maine (The History Press 2020). Charles is past Membership Chair of the American Polar Society and past President of the Antarctican Society, where he is now its archivist. He writes a weekly column on his maritime research for The Camden Herald (https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/half-seas-over/1867382) Charles teaches AP US History at Belfast Area High School and makes his home on the coast of Maine.
Charles H. Lagerbom worked in Antarctica in the 1990s with NSF-funded glacial geology research teams from University of Maine Quaternary Institute, now Climate Change Institute. A published author and avid polar/maritime book collector, Charles has frequently written, lectured and made presentations on cruise/expedition ships, sailing vessels and ashore about the history, life, politics and science of Antarctica, Cape Horn and South Atlantic as well as colonial Maine and New England maritime history and archaeology. He is author of The Fifth Man: The Life of H.R. Bowers (Caedmon Publishing 1991) and Whaling in Maine (The History Press 2020). Charles is past Membership Chair of the American Polar Society and past President of the Antarctican Society, where he is now its archivist. He writes a weekly column on his maritime research for The Camden Herald (https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/half-seas-over/1867382) Charles teaches AP US History at Belfast Area High School and makes his home on the coast of Maine.