{{Short description|American photographer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2018}} {{Infobox person | image = Austin Post.jpg | caption = Post in 2003 | birth_name = Austin S. Post | birth_date = 16 March 1922 | birth_place = | death_date = 12 November 2012 | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = | years_active = | known_for = Aerial photography of the mountains glaciers of North America | notable_works = }} [[File:Chickamin Glacier Dome Peak.jpg|thumb|right|Chickamin Glacier, Dome Peak, 1965]]
'''Austin S. Post''' (16 March 1922 – 12 November 2012<ref>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?pid=161311627 "Austin S. Post Obituary." ''The New York Times'', 29 November 2012.]</ref>) was a photographer, glaciologist, and mountaineer known for his aerial photography of the mountains and glaciers of North America, particularly the North Cascades of Washington and Glacier Bay, Alaska.
Post worked for many years as a research scientist for the United States Geological Survey and was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 2004, despite not having graduated from high school.<ref name=nwmj>{{cite journal|title=Austin Post: Legendary Chronicler of Glaciers |first=John |last=Scurlock |journal=Northwest Mountaineering Journal |issue=4 |date=Summer 2007 |url=http://www.mountaineers.org/nwmj/07/071_Post1.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925113344/http://www.mountaineers.org/nwmj/07/071_Post1.html |archive-date=2008-09-25 }}</ref><ref name=seatimes>{{cite web | title=Vashon Island scientist's lifelong love affair with glaciers | url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20040721/post21m/vashon-island-scientists-lifelong-love-affair-with-glaciers | date=2004-07-21 | newspaper=Seattle Times | access-date=2009-06-11}}</ref> Many of his photographs were used in the ''Cascade Alpine Guide'' series by Fred Beckey.<ref name=cag1>{{cite book | series=Cascade Alpine Guide | volume=1 | title=Columbia River to Stevens Pass | orig-year=1973 | edition=3rd | year=2000 | location=Seattle, Washington | publisher=Mountaineers Books | last = Beckey | first=Fred | author-link=Fred Beckey | isbn=0-89886-577-8}}</ref><ref name=cag2>{{cite book | series=Cascade Alpine Guide | volume=2 | title=Stevens Pass to Rainy Pass | orig-year=1973 | edition=3rd | year=2003 | location=Seattle, Washington | publisher=Mountaineers Books | last = Beckey | first=Fred | author-link=Fred Beckey | isbn=0-89886-152-7}}</ref><ref name=cag3>{{cite book | series=Cascade Alpine Guide | volume=3 | title=Rainy Pass to Fraser River | orig-year=1981 | edition=2nd | year=1995 | location=Seattle, Washington | publisher=Mountaineers Books | last = Beckey | first=Fred | author-link=Fred Beckey | isbn=0-89886-423-2}}</ref> Post named Bradford Washburn as a photographic influence.<ref name=nwmj/> He lived on Vashon Island, Washington.<ref name=nwmj/>
==Selected publications== [[File:Klawatti Glacier USGS.jpg|thumb|Klawatti Glacier, North Cascades National Park, 1969]]
* {{Cite book |last=Post |first=Austin |author2=Don Richardson |author3=Wendell V. Tangborn |author4=F. L. Rosselot |url=https://doi.org/10.3133/pp705A |title=Geological Survey Professional Paper 705—A: Inventory of Glaciers in the North Cascades, Washington |year=1971 |access-date=2009-06-11 |publisher=United States Geological Survey|doi=10.3133/pp705A }} * {{Cite book |last=Brugman |first=Melinda M. |author2=Austin Post |title=USGS Circular 850-D: Effects of Volcanism on the Glaciers of Mount St. Helens |url=https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/cir/cir850D |year=1981 |publisher=United States Geological Survey |access-date=2007-03-07 |archive-date=22 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070222114934/http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/cir/cir850D/ |url-status=dead }} * {{Cite book | last = Post | first = Austin |author2=LaChapelle, Edward R. |author-link2=Edward LaChapelle | title = Glacier Ice | publisher = University of Washington Press | orig-year=1971 | edition=2nd | year = 2000 | isbn = 0-295-97910-0 }}
==Selected ascents== * First ascent of the Southeast Ridge of the White Princess, Eastern Alaska Range, 1950, Austin Post, Gottfried Ehrenburg, Don MacAskill, Lawrence E. Nielsen<ref name=aaj>{{cite journal | title = Eastern Alaska Range | journal = American Alpine Journal | last = Nielsen | first = Lawrence E. | year = 1952 | issn = 0065-6925 | pages=362–364}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{commons-inline}} * [https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/index.jsp?jboEventVo=PubResultView&jboEvent=Search&pxfield_auth_first=Austin&pxfield_auth_last=Post Austin Post]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at the USGS Publications Warehouse * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928153748/http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/search.cgi?search_mode=noPunct&selection=Post+A.S.%7CPost%2C+A. Austin Post] at the USGS Photographic Library
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