Adrian F. Richards Collection
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
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Descriptive Summary
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
.
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.
Biography
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.
Preferred Citation
Adrian F. Richards Collection. SMC 103. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1983, 2007
OFF-SITE STORAGE
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Publication Rights
Richards transferred copyright for all items for which he is the creator to the UC Regents.
Digital Content
Some volcano photographs have been scanned and are described in the container list.
Related Materials
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
Box 1, Folder 1
Adrian F. Richards. Dielectric mineral grain separation problem
1951
Prints and negatives - Scientific instruments and work aboard ships
Box 1, Folder 2
Geotechnical Ocean Engineering (GOE) corer
1982
Box 1, Folder 3
4-bbl corer and hydroplastic corer, designed by Richards
1975
Box 1, Folder 4
Sound-velocity probe of German Hydrographic Institute, Kiel
1965
Box 1, Folder 5
Designs from MGL, Lehigh University
Box 1, Folder 7
Miscellaneous equipment
General note
Sea Cliff; Norwegian Geotech gas-operated seafloor sampler; results of in-situ shear strength aboard Researcher.
Box 1, Folder 8
Richards/Keller plastic-bbl corer
Box 1, Folder 9
In-situ vane testing machine
Prints and negatives - Places, people and landscapes
Box 2, Folder 1
Myojin-sho eruptions
1946, 1952, 1953
Box 2, Folder 4
Richards - Portraits and with others
between 1955 and 1975
Box 2, Folder 5-7
Volcán Bárcena (Boqueron), Isla San Benedicto eruption
1925, 1952-1955
Volcán Bárcena (Boqueron), Isla San Benedicto eruption; Capelinhos Volcano, Faial Island eruption - Tifs
Volcán Bárcena (Boqueron), Isla San Benedicto eruption - Slide show with captions
Capelinhos Volcano, Faial Island eruption - Slide show with captions
Box 3
Volcán Bárcena
ca. 1952-1953
Box 3
Capelinhos Volcano, Faial Island, Azores
1958
Box 3
Marine Geotechnical Laboratory (MGL), Lehigh University - In situ equipment
Box 3
Penetrators, British Research Establishment (BRE), England
ca. 1970
Box 3
Ships and ocean tools
ca. 1959-1969
Box 3
Deep Quest - Bottom photos
Box 3
Deep Quest - Dive results
Box 3
Pore-pressure loading / ONR power Piezometer, misc.
Box 3
Salvage of a lost 1944 F6F Hellcat, recovered from 3,400 feet of water
1970
Box 3
ALCOA Seaprobe (WHOI)
ca. 1970
Box 3
THUMS Islands, Long Beach
1973-1974
Box 3
Hitachi underwater bulldozer
