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.

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.

1.5 Linear feet (2 archives boxes and 1 shoebox)

Richards transferred copyright for all items for which he is the creator to the UC Regents.

COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.