There aren't too many living individuals who can go to the mall and buy a globe with their name printed on it, but the California Institute of Technology just added two.

Barclay Kamb (left) and Hermann Engelhardt (right), longtime researchers on the workings of the Antarctic ice streams, have been honored by the American Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN) with the renaming of two features near the gigantic Ross Ice Shelf, a Texas-sized mass of floating ice. Hereafter, the feature informally called "ice stream C" will bear the formal name Kamb Ice Stream, and "ice ridge BC" will be formally named the Engelhardt Ice Ridge. [Full Story]