Elizabeth Truswell

Elizabeth Truswell has spent much of her working life as a geoscientist, with an Honours degree from the University of Western Australia and a PhD from Cambridge University. After postdoctoral study in the US, she worked as a palaeontologist and environmental geoscientist with Geoscience Australia. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1985, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of Australia in 2009.

In 2000, she received an Honours in painting from The Australian National University and has held a number of solo exhibitions since then. Her works are held in Australia, the US, France and Italy. She has recently been a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences at The Australian National University, dividing her time between ongoing scientific research and making art.

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A Memory of Ice »

The Antarctic Voyage of the Glomar Challenger

Authored by: Elizabeth Truswell
Publication date: August 2019
In the southern summer of 1972/73, the Glomar Challenger was the first vessel of the international Deep Sea Drilling Project to venture into the seas surrounding Antarctica, confronting severe weather and ever-present icebergs. A Memory of Ice presents the science and the excitement of that voyage in a manner readable for non-scientists. Woven into the modern story is the history of early explorers, scientists and navigators who had gone before into the…