Wescott worked at the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska Fairbanks from 1958 to 2009, through two International Polar Years.
[2] He was involved directly in auroral and magnetospheric electric field studies and plasma physics experiments using barium and calcium plasma rocket injections at Poker Flat Research Range.
David Sentman and Daniel Osborne proved the existence of red sprites and blue jets, upper-atmospheric electrical phenomena.
Wescott was an avid mountain climber, and together with Charles Deehr, Jon Gardey, and Finley Kennel[3] made the first ascent of Mt.
[4] He also was among the first teams to climb Old Snowy,[5] Black Cap, Aurora and Meteor peaks in the Alaska Range.