Barrie McKelvey was a member of six major university explorations of Antartica.
In addition to these he has participated in numerous other field seasons along the Transantarctic Mountains and in the Prince Charles Mountains of Mac.Robertson Land, East Antarctica. He was involved the Dry Valleys Drilling Project, 1974, McMurdo Sound Sediment and Tectonic Sampling project, 1979, as well as the Deep Sea Drilling Project, Leg 26, southern Indian Ocean and Ocean Drilling Project, Leg 145, Kamchatka - Gulf of Alaska. He has also participated in oceanographic investigations about the northern Cook Islands, and Vanuatu and the eastern Solomon Islands.
Since retiring in 1996 as Associate Professor in Geology from the University of New England, NSW, Barrie has sailed as lecturer in geology and glaciology on 22 voyages to and about Antarctica, including a 66 day circumnavigation involving 28 landings of opportunity.
Similarly, he has voyaged about the seas of the Siberian and Canadian Arctic and has twice completed the Northwest Passage.
Barrie's current Antarctic research centres about interpretation of the thick Cenozoic glaciomarine Pagodroma Group exposed in the northern Prince Charles Mountains, and of similar but as yet little known strata in the southern Prince Charles Mountains. Currently with two Australian colleagues he is interpreting, via exposure age dating, the history of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet as recorded by erratics distributed upon the Menzies Range near the head of Lambert Glacier, some 650 km inland from the coast of Prydz Bay.
Amazing work Barrie
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