The collection consists of videotape recordings of a program on the history of oceanography sponsored by the Office of Naval Research in cooperation with the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. The collection has two components: video tapes of colloquia and video tapes of interviews with oceanographers. Colloquia were held at University of Washington, University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and at Washington, D.C. Interviews were conducted with forty-five ocean scientists. Several of the institutions that participated in colloquia hold copies of the video tapes; the master set is at the Heinz Center in Washington, D.C.