Max C. Brewer

rdf:langString Max C. Brewer

rdf:langString Max Clifton Brewer

rdf:langString Max Clifton Brewer

rdf:langString Blackfalds, Alberta, Canada,

rdf:langString University of Alaska Fairbanks

rdf:langString Washington University in St. Louis

rdf:langString Geophysics

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rdf:langString Max Clifton Brewer (1924–2012) was an Arctic scientist, geophysicist, geological engineer, environmentalist, educator, and philosopher, and is best known for his expertise in the scientific field of permafrost. He was the longest-serving director (1956-1971) of the Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL) in Utqiaġvik, Alaska (formerly known as Barrow) where he established and managed the NARL ice stations in the Arctic Ocean. From 1971-1974 he served in the gubernatorial cabinet of William A. Egan as the first commissioner of the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation. Max Brewer worked alongside John F. Schindler and a number of Iñupiaq naturalist in NARL’s program on ice science. He often credited a number of Iñupiat scientists such as Jacob Stalker, Kenneth Utuayuk Toovak, , and Harry Brower Sr., as his greatest teachers, and he relied heavily on traditional Iñupiat knowledge of the Arctic and the ice to assist NARL scientific projects. Brewer appeared before the Senate Subcommittee Hearings on Native Land Claims, Anchorage, Alaska, and gave a statement in support of protecting the Iñupiat people’s rights over their own land assets.