Liz Monahon takes a selfie on McMurdo ice shelf in Nov. 2021. The Associated Press found a pattern of women working in Antarctica who said their claims of sexual harassment or assault had been minimized by their employers. The AP investigation came after the National Science Foundation published a report in 2022 in which 59% of women said they’d had a negative experience of harassment or assault while on the ice.
The National Science Foundation, the federal agency that oversees the US Antarctic Program, published a report in 2022 in which 59 percent of women said they’d experienced harassment or assault while on the ice, and 72 percent of women said such behavior was a problem in Antarctica. Bieneman pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault. He was fired and sent back to the US, court documents show, and his trial is scheduled for November. His lawyer, Birney Bervar, said in an e-mail to the AP that it was “horseplay” initiated by the woman and the evidence didn’t support “an assault of the nature and degree she described.”
Monahon believes she only escaped physical harm in Antarctica because of her colleagues, not management. What Monahon didn’t know was that Buckingham had a history of what a judge described as alcohol-related criminal offending in New Zealand. Funded and overseen by the NSF, the US Antarctic Program is run by a tangle of contractors and subcontractors, with billions of dollars at stake. Since 2017, Leidos has held the main contract, now worth over $200 million per year. Subcontractor PAE, which employs many of the base’s workers, was bought last year by the government services giant Amentum.
The NSF and Leidos declined to answer questions about Buckingham or other cases. Leidos said sharing specific details wasn’t always appropriate or helpful. Monahon says she repeatedly told Buckingham she didn’t want to speak with him. Soon after, she heard Buckingham was angry with her. Cameron Dailey-Ruddy, who bartended at Gallagher’s, witnessed the commotion. He ordered everyone but Monahon to leave and called 911, which connects to the station firehouse. From the dispatcher, Dailey-Ruddy got the numbers for the Leidos station manager and PAE’s HR representative and asked them to come to the bar.
In a later recorded meeting, Izzi denied that she discouraged Monahon and said she had in fact instructed her to call the marshal. Izzi did not respond to the AP’s requests for comment.
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