NSF PLAYS MAJOR ROLE IN COMPLEX INTERNATIONAL EVACUATION OF AN INJURED AUSTRALIAN FROM ANTARCTICA
November 05, 2008
November 05, 2008
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 -- The National Science Foundation issued the following press release:
A complicated international air operation coordinated by the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is managed by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has successfully evacuated a badly injured employee of the Australian Antarctic Division from Antarctica to a hospital in Hobart, Tasmania.
The patient arrived in Tasmania just before midnight local time on Nov. 5, after a roughly 10-ho . . .
A complicated international air operation coordinated by the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is managed by the National Science Foundation (NSF), has successfully evacuated a badly injured employee of the Australian Antarctic Division from Antarctica to a hospital in Hobart, Tasmania.
The patient arrived in Tasmania just before midnight local time on Nov. 5, after a roughly 10-ho . . .