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Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Office of the Director.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Office of the Director records on the Institute of Geophysics, 1943-1955.
The collection includes correspondence, minutes, budgetary material, grant applications, and notes. The material was generated and received by SIO Directors Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1943-1948), Carl Eckart (1948-1950), and Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (1950-1955). Early files document the move to establish an Institute of Geophysics at the University of California and the selection of staff members, a director, and an advisory board. Later files include research grant applications, agendas and minutes of Advisory Board meetings, records of Annual Conferences of the Institute, and documentation of the unsuccessful 1952 attempt to move the Institute to La Jolla. Principal correspondents include: Jacob Bjerknes, Sir Edward Crisp Bullard, Cark Eckart, Denis L. Fox, Jr̲gen Holmboe, Joseph Kaplan, Vern Oliver Knudsen, Leonard C. Loeb, Walter H. Munk, Roger Revelle, Carl-Gustav Rossby, Louis B. Slichter, Robert Gordon Sproul, Harald U.Sverdrup.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography -- Administration.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography -- Documentation.
Geophysics -- Study and teaching -- United States -- California.
Marine sciences -- Administration.
Oceanographers -- Correspondence.
Oceanography -- Administration.
Oceanography -- Research.
Research institutes -- Administration -- United States -- California.
Agendas. aat
Grant proposals. aat
Minutes. aat
Notes. aat
Eckart, Carl, 1902-1973
Revelle, Roger, 1909-1991-
Sverdrup, H. U. (Harald Ulrik), 1888-1957.
University of California Institute of Geophysics Documentation.
AIP-ICOS
University of California, San Diego. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Mandeville Special Collections Library. 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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