Professor William (Bill) Budd was a founding figure in Australian glaciology, and the first glaciology program leader of the Australian Antarctic Division (Fig. 1). Bill worked on an enormous range of glaciological and meteorological problems covering numerical modelling of ice sheets and glaciers, including surging glaciers; ice mechanics; ice crystallography; ice core paleoclimatic studies; relationships between sea ice and climate; and katabatic wind and snow drift studies. Bill introduced and led studies of ice sheet mass budget, ice rheology, ice sheet thermodynamics, iceberg distribution and movement, drifting snow, sea ice and climate interactions and much more. He initiated Australian ice core drilling (initially for study of ice dynamics and later for palaeoclimate research), radio echo sounding of ice thickness and satellite remote sensing of ice. Much of what Bill Budd initiated more than fifty years ago remains core to the present-day Australian Antarctic glaciological research program.

威廉（比尔）巴德教授是澳大利亚冰川学的奠基人，也是澳大利亚南极分部的第一位冰川学项目负责人（图1）。比尔致力于解决范围广泛的冰川学和气象问题，包括冰盖和冰川的数值模拟，包括汹涌的冰川；冰力学；冰晶体学；冰芯古气候研究；海冰与气候之间的关系；以及下降风和雪漂移研究。比尔介绍并领导了冰盖质量预算、冰流变学、冰盖热力学、冰山分布和运动、流雪、海冰和气候相互作用等方面的研究。他发起了澳大利亚冰芯钻探（最初是为了研究冰动力学，后来是为了古气候研究）、冰厚度的无线电回波探测和冰的卫星遥感。比尔·巴德五十多年前发起的大部分工作仍然是当今澳大利亚南极冰川研究计划的核心。