The research vessel LAURENCE M. GOULD (LMG) at the Palmer Station pier. The LMG was named in honor of Laurence McKinley Gould, polar explorer, geologist, teacher, and president of Carleton College. He was second-in-command on Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s first Antarctic expedition of 1929-30. During that expedition, Byrd established the base camp at Little America from which his team explored the continent, including flights over the South Pole.Gould, an international figure with 25 honorary degrees, and a principal architect of the Antarctic Treaty, died in 1995 at the age of 98. That same year, the National Science Foundation initiated the charter for the services of this ice-strengthened vessel to further its studies and knowledge of the Antarctic Peninsula and Southern Ocean.