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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Adrian F. Richards Collection
Creator:
Richards, Adrian F.
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0103
Physical Description:
1.5 Linear feet
(2 archives boxes and 1 shoebox)
Physical Description:
4.35 GB
of digital files
Date (inclusive): ca. 1946-1988
Abstract: The Adrian F. Richards Collection consists largely of photographic prints, negatives, and slides collected by the marine geologist,
and includes one graduate-level paper by Richards.
Languages:
English
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Scope and Content of Collection
The Adrian F. Richards Collection consists largely of photographic prints, negatives, and slides collected by the marine geologist,
and includes one graduate-level paper by Richards. The images include the Volcán Bárcena (also known as Boqueron) eruption
in the early 1950s on Isla San Benedicto, the subject of his doctoral dissertation, as well as pictures of ships and oceanographic
instruments and equipment. It also includes a few photographs of Richards at work.
Adrian F. Richards was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1929. He got a B.S. from the University of New Mexico in 1951 and
a Ph.D. in oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1957. Since that time, he held positions with the U.
S. Navy Hydrographic Office, the Department of Agriculture, the National Academy of Sciences, the U. S. Navy Electronics Laboratory,
the Office of Naval Research, and the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway. In 1964 he was appointed Associate Professor
of Geology (nine-tenths time) and Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (one-tenth time) on the faculty of the University
of Illinois. He worked in academia, industry and the U.S. Navy as an oceanographer, submarine geologist and management consultant
until his retirement in 1988. He published over 170 articles and participated in research expeditions to most of the oceans
of the world.
Adrian F. Richards Collection. SMC 103. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Acquired 1983, 2007
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Richards transferred copyright for all items for which he is the creator to the UC Regents.
Some volcano photographs have been scanned and are described in the container list.
Richards donated his copies of government footage of the Volcán Bárcena eruption in 1952 to the Library. The films are cataloged
and available online: https://search-library.ucsd.edu/permalink/01UCS_SDI/ld412s/alma991002821779706535
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Volcanoes -- Mexico -- Revillagigedo Islands -- Photographs
Volcanic eruptions -- Photographs
Oceanographic research ships -- Photographs
Oceanographic instruments -- Photographs
Richards, Adrian F. -- Archives