Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- A Terrace Point Lagoon study
- Dates:
- 1973
- Creators:
- Redenbaugh, Keith
- Abstract:
- This collection includes manuscript notes, maps, typed letters, slides, and pamphlets related to the proposed use of a lagoon by the University of California, Santa Cruz, for marine research and instruction.
- Extent:
- 1 carton 7 maps
- Language:
- Languages represented in the collection: English
- Preferred citation:
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A Terrace Point Lagoon study. MS 147. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collections includes manuscript notes, maps, typed letters, slides, and pamphlets related to the proposed use of a lagoon by the University of California, Santa Cruz, for marine research and instruction.
There are seven hand-drawn, colored maps, scale 1:2,400 that accompanied the collection. These are housed separately in Maps Collection.
- Biographical / historical:
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This collection was complied by alumni, Dr. Keith Redenbaugh as his principle project for a 1974 class in Environmental Studies. The focus of the collection is the proposed use of Terrace Point Lagoon, later named the Younger Lagoon (for donors Donald and Marion Stowell Younger) by the University. The lagoon is now managed by the University's Institute of Marine Sciences.
Since graduating, Dr. Redenbaugh has been involved with agricultural biotechnology beginning with his research on genetic improvement of American elm. His research efforts include work on a variety of vegetable, forage and forest crops. He is the inventor of synthetic seeds and has been granted numerous patents. Beginning in the 1980s, Dr. Redenbaugh focused his career on regulatory affairs and worldwide efforts to establish science-based regulations. He worked with the FDA and USDA to establish appropriate instruments for safety assessment and oversight of transgenic crops and foods. He obtained regulatory approvals for the first transgenic whole food, the FLAVR SAVR tomato. His efforts also led to FDA issuing a food additive regulation for the kanamycin-resistant marker gene protein, NPTII, a significant decision by the FDA that has consistently been overlooked by both critics and proponents of biotechnology. He also obtained for the FLAVR SAVR tomato what is still the only full commercial approval of a transgenic crop in Mexico. Dr. Redenbaugh spent 1 1/2 years at Iowa State University in the role of Biotechnology Industry Liaison, which involved broad biotechnology interactions with industry and the public, ranging from issues on fermentation, animal health, transgenic animals, as well as plant biotechnology. In this role, Dr. Redenbaugh spent time talking to farmers, students (both high school and college), and community service organizations. Currently, Dr. Redenbaugh is Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs, and Team Leader, Biotechnology Commercialization and Strategic Planning, for Seminis Vegetable Seeds.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Keith Redenbaugh
- Physical location:
- Stored offsite: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2010
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid created by M. Carey. Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word. Date of source: August 6, 2010.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
- Preferred citation:
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A Terrace Point Lagoon study. MS 147. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Location of this collection:
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Special Collections and Archives, University Library1156 High StreetSanta Cruz, CA 95064, US
- Contact:
- (831) 459-2547