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Going South for the Winter

George Blaisdell is currently a cold regions engineering consultant.  He recently completed 43 years as a government employee in the roles of a research engineer at the US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) and as Operations Manager and then Chief Program Manager for the US Antarctic Program (USAP) as an employee of the National Science Foundation’s Office of Polar Programs.  His efforts have produced many advances in Antarctica, Greenland, and Alaska.  In addition to a strong technical skill set, George also has experience with management of projects, schedules, budgets, contracts, equipment and infrastructure life-cycles, energy, operations, and logistics.