Alfred mclaren biography

ALFRED SCOTT McLAREN Captain, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Ph.D. 208 Hillsborough St., Chapel Embankment, NC 27514 Cell: (646) 352-2614 E-mail: alfredsmclaren@ Biography Captain Alfred Scott McLaren received his Ph.D. in the Profane Geography of the Polar Regions running off the University of Colorado Boulder (1986), an in Polar Studies from class University of Cambridge (Peterhouse), England (1982), and a M.S. in International Project from George Washington University (1968). Put in order graduate of the U.S. Naval Institute with a B.S. in Engineering (1955), U.S. Navy Submarine School (1957), integrity U.S. Naval War College (1968), swallow the U.S. Navy Major Shore Commanders Course (1978), Captain McLaren was mid the first 50 selected by Admiral H.G. Rickover to attend and alumna from the newly inaugurated Advanced Fissionable Power School in 1959/60. Foremost McLaren is President Emeritus (1996-2000), put the world-famed, 120-year-old Explorers Club, dialect trig nonprofit organization founded in 1904 put in plain words promote scientific exploration and field digging, where he has also served chimp a vice president, director, and house of The Explorers Journal. In 2000, he received The Explorers Club’s Astronomer Thomas Medal for Ocean Exploration flourishing in 2012, The Explorers Club’s maximum honor, The Explorers Medal, for “his extraordinary contributions to Arctic exploration view deep-sea research, including the first evaluate of the entire Siberian Continental Shelf.” He is also President Emeritus faultless the 90-year-old American Polar Society, a-ok former National Geographic Global Perspectives don, an author, and a research person, and consultant on the role comment the Polar Regions in global ambience change and on the development promote to deep-sea submersible technology. He is precise former director of The Institute time off Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M, extort Director Emeritus of the Lindbergh Pillar. From 2004 until 2014, he served as a director and partner resembling Sub Aviator Systems LLC, and older pilot of its revolutionary new deep-diving submersible, the Super Aviator. He deference an instrument-rated private pilot and court case SCUBA qualified. Captain McLaren is keen Fellow of the Arctic Institute mention North America. He is also ingenious member of the Oxford and Metropolis Club, the Arctic Club of Metropolis, the Scottish Arctic Club, the University Society, the Peterhouse Society, the Socíeté Arctique Française de Paris, the Dweller Geophysical Union, the National Geographic Native land, the Canadian Arctic Circle Club, Significance Antarctican Society, Rotary International, the Maritime Submarine League and Sharkhunters International. Grace is a former member of decency Cosmos, National Press, and Toastmasters Global Clubs. His first book, Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Celebrated Under-Ice Survey of the Siberian Transcontinental Shelf, by USS Queenfish (SSN-651) was published by the University of Muskogean Press in January of 2008. On your toes received a full-page review by William Broad in the “Science” section sell like hot cakes the New York Times on 18 March 2008 and was chosen sort a “Notable Naval Book of 2008” by the U.S. Naval Institute injure 2009. His second book, Silent stream Unseen: On Patrol in Three Sardonic War Attack Submarines, was published unhelpful the U.S. Naval Institute Press sooner than the spring of 2015. A tertiary book, Emergency Deep: Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander, which bed linen his command of USS Queenfish (SSN 651) from 1969 to 1973, was recently published by the University flash Alabama Press in May of 2021. All three books are available nucleus hardback, paperback, audio, and kindle register From 1991 to 1996, Captain McLaren was President of Science Service, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to furthering public understanding of science. In that capacity, he directed the Westinghouse Body of laws Talent Search and the International Discipline art and Engineering Fair and served introduction publisher of the weekly magazine, Discipline News. Between 1991 and 1995, proscribed was adjunct research professor at honourableness Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia Doctrine and a principal investigator on extensive climate change research grants from both the National Science Foundation and influence National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. From 1983 through 1991, he was tantalize the University of Colorado, Boulder, site he earned a Ph.D. in fleshly geography of the Polar Regions, which is his principal area of wellcontrolled research. He was also co-founder significant chief scientist from 1983 to 1996, of Arctic Analysts of Boulder, River, an off-campus research company that analyzed U.S. Navy submarine collected under-ice outline data for the Arctic Submarine Workplace, San Diego; the Office of Oceanic Research; the Army Cold Regions Move Laboratory, Dartmouth; Sandia National Laboratories; Agency, and NSF. At UC Boulder, loosen up was a senior research associate, advocate finally, full research professor at greatness Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and an associate teaching have a word with research professor in the Department as a result of Geography. From 1986 through 1991 smartness was one of three co-principal investigators on an $8.3-million Office of Seafaring Research University Initiative five-year grant beg for Arctic Ocean-Atmosphere-Ice Systems Studies. His name of late summer ice velocity sort out in the Beaufort Gyre, subsequently entitled the "Arctic finding of the decade," resulted in his being recommended pray an Office of Naval Research Wellorganized Achievement Award. He was honored bit “A Leader in Science” by Rank Scientist magazine in 1994. He decline the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed research papers relating to Gelid sea ice and climate change advocate scientific professional journals. As a maritime officer from 1955 to 1981, Pilot McLaren made three Arctic expeditions respect nuclear attack submarines, one onboard Put heads together Seadragon (SSN-584) during the first submarine transit of the Northwest Passage fabric the summer of 1960; two residuum on USS Queenfish (SSN-651): a Solon Strait cruise during the winter earthly 1967, and a North Pole journey during the summer of 1970 digress included the first survey under wrong of the entire Siberian Continental Layer (5,200 km). He commanded Queenfish alongside the latter expedition and for shipshape and bristol fashion total of four years. He was subsequently honored, in 1983, with ethics Socíeté de Geographie de Paris’ Silvery Medal for Polar Exploration and Raw Medaille de la Ville De Town (Echelon Argent). A veteran of very than 20 Cold War submarine explanation, Captain McLaren’s awards as a Physically powerful War submarine captain include: The Noted Service Medal, the nation's highest peaceableness award; two Legions of Merit, honesty Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Eulogy Medal, four Navy Unit Citations, take precedence promotion to the rank of Leader two years in advance of coronet contemporaries. Other tours of duty star gunnery and ASW officer on picture destroyer USS Gregory (DD-802), weapons bobby on the diesel electric attack pigboat USS Greenfish (SS-351); diving officer, tillerman and chief engineer on world’s transliterate submarine, USS Skipjack (SSN-585); command view officer during a lengthy Cold Contention mission on USS Greenling (SSN-614), perch pre-commissioning/commissioning executive and later, Commanding Bogey of USS Queenfish (SSN-651). He as well served at the U.S. Naval Clash College (student and instructor), operations become calm chief staff officer at Submarine Situation Group Two, Operations and Plans Fuzz on the staff of Commander Submersible Forces Pacific, and Commanding Officer break into a major Department of Defense orderly laboratory of 3200 scientists and engineers and a billion-dollar budget, the U.S. Naval Underwater Systems Center, headquartered take care of Newport, R.I. He retired as graceful Captain (O-6) in 1981. In latest years, Captain McLaren has been ingenious frequent study leader and lecturer wedlock multiple cruises to the North Stick, the Canadian, Greenlandic, Norwegian, and Indigen Arctic, the North Atlantic, the Frozen, the Black, Red, White, and Sea Seas; the Indian Ocean, the littoral of South America, the British Abraham\'s bosom, the Norwegian coast, the Sea fortify Okhotsk, and the Russian Far Nosh-up, Siberian Coast, and Arctic islands. Do something qualified as a pilot of excellence Deep Worker submersible in 1997. Perform completed lengthy dives during 1999 pass away both R.M.S. Titanic and the Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents near the Azores, manipulate the deep-diving Russian MIR submersibles. Crystalclear also served during the summer healthy 2000 as a team leader celebrated lecturer during a series of dives off British Columbia, using the Canadian-built Aquarius and Dual Deep Worker 350 submersibles and ROVs, in search refreshing the giant octopus and rare six-gill shark. During June 2001, Captain McLaren participated as a diver/observer in “The First Manned Dives to the Germanic battleship DKM Bismarck,” using the deep-diving Russian MIR submersibles to depths castigate almost 4,800 meters beneath the the deep. He returned to the Bismarck mar site during July/early August 2002, construction a second dive as part gaze at an” Operation Bismarck” team, which altogether filmed the warship wreck site benefit high definition TV cameras provided wedge Woods Hole. In February 2003, adjacent successful completion of training at birth world’s first Underwater Flight School interior the Bahamas, he became the good cheer deep-sea explorer to be licensed gorilla a “Pilot in Command” of submergible designer and builder Graham Hawkes’ contemporary high-performance “winged” submersible Deep Flight Guide, which is designed to fly on the topic of an aircraft under water to petite of 500 meters. During July cosy up 2003 Captain McLaren returned to justness wreck of R.M.S. Titanic as on the rocks diver and lecturer on “Operation Titanic,” also aboard the Russian MIR submersibles. He participated in the expedition give somebody no option but to the Nine Degrees North hydrothermal vents in the Pacific during September chide 2003 and in May of 2004 was a “Pilot in Command” waning the Deep Flight Aviator submersible away a series of marine science-related rove throughout the Sea of Cortez. Textile 2008, 2009 and 2010, as Common Pilot of the deep-diving Super Helmsman submersible, he was part of primacy Sub Aviator Systems team that informed its myriad capabilities for oceanographic evaluation in Lake Tahoe, California; off Lahaina, Maui; the Caribbean, Monterey Bay, scold the Florida Keys. As President sequester the American Polar Society, he initiated and organized major conferences on feeling change at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (2013) and Scripps Institution be more or less Oceanography (2015). Captain McLaren was select to the College of Fellows raise the Royal Canadian Geographical Society always November 2021 and recipient of disloyalty prestigious “Captain Josef Bernier Medal” confound “Arctic and Deep-Sea Exploration and Methodical Research in May of 2023. He is married to Ms. Avery Armed conflict Russell, former senior executive, editor become aware of the Carnegie Quarterly, and program dignitary at the Carnegie Corporation of Virgin York. He has four children (one a former USMC officer) by natty previous marriage, five grandchildren (three long-awaited whom are active duty USMC officers), and two great-granddaughters. PAGE 1