Kendrick Cashman Taylor, Jr. is a climate change researcher working with ice cores in Greenland and Antarctica. While a Research Professor at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nevada, he was the Chief Scientist for the
Siple Dome
Siple Dome () is an ice dome approximately 100 km wide and 100 km long, located 130 km east of Siple Coast in Antarctica. Charles Bentley and Robert Thomas established a "strain rosette" on this feature to determine ice movement in ...
and
WAIS Divide
The WAIS Divide is the ice flow divide on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) which is a linear boundary that separates the region where the ice flows to the Ross Sea, from the region where the ice flows to the Weddell Sea. It is similar to a con ...
ice core
An ice core is a core sample that is typically removed from an ice sheet or a high mountain glacier
A glacier (; or ) is a persistent body of dense ice, a form of rock, that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight. A glacier ...
projects in Antarctica. He has also done work on near shore clarity at Lake Tahoe and teaching World Vision how to use geophysics to find favorable locations for shallow water wells in West Africa. His ResearcherID is A-3469-2016 and ORCID is 0000-0001-8535-1261.
Kendrick Cashman Taylor, Sr. (1922–1995) was an engineer who specialized in
vacuum metallurgy
Vacuum metallurgy is the field of materials technology that deals with making, shaping, or treating metals in a controlled atmosphere, at pressures significantly less than normal atmospheric pressure.http://processmaterials.com/technology/vacuum-m ...
, especially related to depositing thin films on mylar. He is listed as the inventor on the follow U.S.A. patents: US3185565, US3314826, US3278331, US3326177, US3601179, US3215423, US3330900, US3180633, US3554268, US3235243.
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American climatologists
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