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Box 166, Folder 1

Jerome Namias - World Weather Watch ca. 1963-1980

General note

7" reel-to-reel, time 02:12:26.

Box 166, Folder 2-4

Ocean science and ocean engineering conference, Parts 1-3 1965 June 17

General note

Three 7" reel-to-reels.

Box 167, Folder 3

Untitled - Lecture on large waves from violent events 1974

General note

Audiocassette.

Box 167, Folder 4

Untitled - Continuation of lecture on large waves from violent events and lecture on freshwater from the sea 1974

General note

Audiocassette.

Box 167, Folder 5

A National Conference on Marine Recreation, Newport Beach, California 1975 July-December

General note

Audiocassette.

Box 167, Folder 6

Albatross Award, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 1980 September 24

General note

Audiocassette.

Box 166, Folder 5

Recording of Isaacs' memorial service 1980 November 6

General note

7" reel-to-reel. Speakers include: Willard Bascom (Director, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project); William Fretter (Vice President of the University of California); William Nierenberg (Director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography); Roger Revelle (Director Emeritus, SIO); Joseph Reid (Director, Marine Life Research Program, SIO); Fred Noel Spiess (Director, University of California Institute of Marine Resources); Richard Seymour (State of California department of Boating and Waterways); and Richard Schwartzlose (Marine Life Research Group, SIO).

Box 167, Folder 7-12

Foundation for Ocean Research - John D. Isaacs Associates and Family seminar 1980 November 7

General note

6 audiocassettes. Discussion of Isaacs' ideas and plans for future research.

Films

Box 126, Folder 13-14

Inventories and supporting materials 1969-1974

General note

Includes inventory showing OTSC numbering, talk given by Willard Bascom on "Energy from Wind and Sea," and shooting script for Tethered Float Breakwater film.

Box 187, Folder 18

Alpha Helix Project: Valparaiso, Killer Whales, ending at Antarctica 1971 March 12

Box 188, Folder 14

Aqua and More undated

General note

OTSC-58.

Box 188, Folder 1

AT53 Satellite - Still shot 1968 January 12

Box 189, Folder 1

Buoy at Station Papa undated

Box 188, Folder 2

Bumble Bee Buoy undated

Box 189, Folder 5

Colorado River Delta undated

Box 188, Folder 3

Dam-Atoll 1960

Box 188, Folder 15

Deep sea instrument stations ca. 1960-1970

General note

Film by Isaacs, Bascom, and Beckworth. Shows deep moored instrument station and shots of the ocean from beach.

Box 188, Folder 16

Desert in the Deep - National Science Foundation (NSF) 1975

Box 188, Folder 17

Eggett and Helin - Dam-Atoll 1979 July 18

Box 188, Folder 4

E.K. San Diego - 3660 undated

Box 188, Folder 18

Energy From Wind and Sea undated

Box 188, Folder 19

Evacuated Wave Chamber - George B. Schick undated

Box 188, Folder 20

Explosion venting Coronado 1952

Box 188, Folder 7

Free Vehicle Current Meter Cruise ca. 1965

General note

OTSC-17.

Box 190, Folder 1

John Isaacs' Out Film undated

Box 190, Folder 2

Krill Expedition undated

General note

35mm film.

Box 190, Folder 3

Larry Lawver's tests with GRD Towed Camera undated

General note

35mm film.

Box 191, Folder 1

North Pacific Studies (NPS) ca. 1967-1968

General note

OTSC-1, 7, 9, 10, 6, 55. Includes Daniel M. Brown's buoy tests and high speed buoy roll test.

Box 191, Folder 2

North Pacific Studies (NPS) 1967

General note

OTSC-11, 12, 13, 14. Includes buoy tests, buoy recovery, and Daniel M. Brown's analysis of buoy test

Box 191, Folder 3

North Pacific Studies (NPS) 1967-1968

General note

OTSC-6, 15, 20, 21, 22. Includes victor buoy installation and first mooring from a United States Coast Guard cutter (ship).

Box 191, Folder 4

North Pacific Studies (NPS) 1968

General note

OTSC-23, 24, 26, 27, 32. Includes United States Coast Guard cutter (ship) departure and first mooring, as well as Buoy-Monterey.

Box 191, Folder 5

North Pacific Studies (NPS) ca. 1968

General note

OTSC-33, 54.

Box 191, Folder 6

North Pacific Studies (NPS) - Bad seas, Victor buoy ca. 1968 January

General note

OTSC-6.

Box 191, Folder 7

North Pacific Studies (NPS) - Buoy recovery 1967

General note

OTSC-11.

Box 191, Folder 8

North Pacific Studies (NPS) - Daniel M. Brown, buoy model tests ca. 1968-1970

General note

OTSC-7.

Box 191, Folder 9

North Pacific Studies (NPS) - Daniel M. Brown, buoy ramp 1968 August

General note

OTSC-1.

Box 191, Folder 10

North Pacific Studies (NPS) - Columbia River Pilot 1968

General note

OTSC-29.

Box 191, Folder 11

North Pacific Studies (NPS) - Cruise 1968

General note

OTSC-10.

Box 191, Folder 12

North Pacific Studies (NPS) - Cruise 1968

General note

OTSC-20.

Box 191, Folder 13

North Pacific Studies (NPS) - Mooring the NOPOP test buoy 1968

General note

OTSC-39.

Box 191, Folder 14

North Pacific Studies (NPS) - Taut wire mooring 1968 May

General note

OTSC-25.

Box 188, Folder 6

Operation Skywatch undated

Box 190, Folder 4

Paul Savage: Re-entry Trails undated

Box 188, Folder 8

Pern Trench Area undated

Box 190, Folder 5

Richard Seymour's Breakwater undated

Box 190, Folder 6

Sharks - WQED 1981 September 10

Box 192, Folder 1-8

Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) ca. 1969-1980

General note

Eight 16mm films. Includes drops 1 through 9, R-1 through R-5.

Box 193, Folder 1

Tethered Float Breakwater, ed. by Richard Seymour 1974 May 30

Box 193, Folder 2

Tethered Float Breakwater, ed. by Richard Seymour - Projection print ca. 1974

Box 193, Folder 3

Tethered Float Breakwater, Naval Undersea Center 1976

Box 193, Folder 4

Tethered Float Breakwater, Isaacs Wave Pump, and Lockheed: Dam-Atoll 1976 April 2

General note

Naval Undersea Center, Audio-visual Production Division.

Box 193, Folder 5

Tsunami Time Lapse 1954 April 28

Oversize FS-175

United States Navy Training Film, Oceanographic Prediction Systems, MN-10167 undated

Box 193, Folder 6

Wave Generator - San Clemente trial 1972 July 25

Box 188, Folder 9

Wave Pump, Foundation for Ocean Research ca. 1970

Box 188, Folder 12

Wave Pump, George Schick 1970

General note

OTSC-18.

Box 188, Folder 11

Wave Pump, Hawaii 1976

Box 188, Folder 5

Wave Tank, George Schick 1971

General note

OTSC-56.

Box 188, Folder 10

Wave Tank in vacuum, George Schick 1971

General note

OTSC-56.

Box 188, Folder 13

Weather in Motion from the ATS-I Synchronous Satellite undated

WORKS BY OTHERS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) WORKS BY OTHERS: A small selection of drafts, papers and photographs created by Isaacs's colleagues, arranged alphabetically by author's name.

Box 168, Folder 1

Agerton, Savage, and Stotz. The design, analysis and field test of a dynamic floating breakwater 1976 July

Box 168, Folder 2

Arthur, Robert S. Horizontal diffusion from a radioactive source 1959 March 2

Box 168, Folder 3

Baietti, A. L. Comments on ocean disposal of radioactive waste from peace time uses of nuclear energy 1958 October

General note

Presented at hearings held by the State of California Senate Interim Committee on Fish and Game in San Francisco, 1958 October 6-7.

Box 168, Folder 4

Baietti and Schuert. Estimate of distribution of radioactivity in air and water at hydra IIA 1961 June

General note

Includes correspondence and notes.

Box 168, Folder 5

Bascom, Willard. The crest of the wave: Adventures in oceanography 1987 July

Box 168, Folder 6

Bhartwal and Vaze. External Radiation dose received by the inhabitants of monazite areas of Travancore-Cochin: India 1957 May-June

Box 168, Folder 7

Bigelow and Stetson. A manual of ocean waves, of surf and of beaches 1944 June

General note

Preliminary edition, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Box 168, Folder 8

Binney, Dru. Miscellaneous poems 1982 June 3

Box 168, Folder 9

Breeding, J. Ernest, Jr. Group velocity and wave refraction 1970 January 13

Box 168, Folder 10

Brown, Daniel M. Windmill generator for the bumblebee buoy 1972 June

General note

Includes mock-ups, photographs, and negatives.

Box 168, Folder 11

Burt, Jesse C. Iceberg water for California 1955-1956

Box 168, Folder 12

Burt, Wayne V. Horizontal advection and diffusion from a radioactive source 1959 March 7

Box 168, Folder 13

Ellison, Gail. A joint educational project idea book 1977 November

General note

First draft. Includes correspondence and list of comments made by Isaacs.

Box 168, Folder 14

English, J. Morley. Questions on the appropriate discount rate for economic evaluation of water projects 1972 May 1

General note

Presented to the meeting of the Advisory Council of the Water Resources Center.

Box 168, Folder 15

Euston and Knecht. Regional port planning and coastal zone management 1978 July 14-21

General note

Paper presented at the Coastal Zone Conference, 1978 March. Includes correspondence.

Box 168, Folder 16

Evans et al. Data from deep-moored instrument stations: Volume 2 1969 September-November

Box 168, Folder 17

Folsom, T.R. Rates of dissipation of historical nuclear fallout in the N.W. Pacific Ocean 1979 August

General note

Presented at the XIV Pacific Science Congress, Khabarovsk, Russia, 1979 August.

Box 168, Folder 18

Graves, John. Three-dimensional spacing in pelagic fish schools determined by photography 1974 December

General note

Southwest Fisheries Center administrative report no. LJ-74-44.

Box 168, Folder 19

Hayes, William E. Sky hook 1973

Box 169, Folder 1

Hedgpeth, Joel W. Pollution and marine resources 1968

General note

Expanded version of presentation given at the annual meeting of the Pacific Northwest Pollution Control Association in Penticton, British Columbia, 1968 October 10.

Box 169, Folder 2

Helbig, Jim D. PSI - A new concept in underwater recovery 1971 September 22

General note

Revised version of paper presented at symposium on the Equipment for the Working Diver, Columbus, Ohio, 1970 February 24-25.

Box 169, Folder 3

Honma, Tayuya. Research and development of oceanic measuring system (OSR) - Translation 1977 July

Box 169, Folder 4

Howe, Everett D. Sea water research: A technical and economic investigation of certain schemes for producing potable fresh water from sea water - Progress report 1953-1954

Box 169, Folder 5

James, Philip N. What are the universities doing to our children? undated

Box 169, Folder 6

Johnson and A.S.C.E. Review of slope protection methods ca. 1955-1960

Box 169, Folder 7

Kaplan, Irving E. Implications of climatic change for the new world order 1976 October

General note

Presented to the Club of Rome/Pacem in Maribus meeting, Algiers, 1976 October 28.

Box 169, Folder 8

Leitz, Frank B. Extraction of energy from the confluence of a river with the sea 1974 September 5

Box 169, Folder 9

Logsdon, Thomas S. The skyhook project 1966-1972

Box 169, Folder 10

Lyon, Waldo. Talk given to Science Fair 1960-1964

Box 169, Folder 11

Martin, M. D. Power from ocean waves 1973-1974

Box 169, Folder 12

Masuda, Yoshio. Wave activated generator 1966 July 1

General note

Progressive report, 3rd Division First Technical Research Institute of Japan Defense Force.

Box 169, Folder 13

Masuda, Yoshio and Miyazaki. The first sea test of teathered float breakwater (TFB) by Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC) 1980

Box 169, Folder 14

McGowan and Brown. A new opening - Closing paired zooplankton net 1966 November 2

Box 169, Folder 15

Miles, Josephine. Center Mandeville 1975

General note

Poem about the opening of Mandeville Center. Includes memorandum from Roy Harvey Pearce.

Box 169, Folder 16

Morse et al. What are the plankton waiting for? 1978 November 15

Box 169, Folder 17

Neyshyba and Neal. The laminae structure of Arctic Ocean water 1972 September

Box 169, Folder 18

Neyshyba and Neal. Horizontal field of microstructure in the Arctic Ocean 1972 December 11

Box 169, Folder 19

Nyssen, N. The sterling chain: Origin of the tropical cyclone and anticyclone 1955 May-August

Box 169, Folder 20

Öström and Rex. Aerial photography of coastal waters - Some results from a test at Brofjorden on the Swedish west coast 1978 February

Box 169, Folder 21

Reimnitz and Ross. The sea sled - A device for measuring bottom profiles in the surf zone 1970 December 18

General note

Includes negatives.

Box 169, Folder 22

Richards, Adrian. Untitled 1975 October 23

General note

Draft of paper on the subject of energy, with a focus on ocean-energy relationships.

Box 169, Folder 23

Richardson, John M. Preliminary report on theory of damage to fish by underwater explosions 1955 April 29

Box 169, Folder 24

Savage, Godfrey H. Ocean engineering 1971 - A status report 1971-1973

General note

Presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1971 December 28. Includes note from Savage.

Box 169, Folder 25

Schick, George B. Evolution of the SIO deep mooring concept 1962-1963

General note

Includes handwritten notes by Isaac.

Box 170, Folder 1

Schick, George B. The interaction of air with breaking waves - Miscellaneous reports 1971 February-August

Box 170, Folder 2

Schick, George B. Plastics in experimental oceanographic instrumentation ca. 1965-1975

Box 170, Folder 3-4

Schick, George B. Notes and reports on drifting sea floor camera 1971-1972

Box 170, Folder 5-10

Schick, George B. - Photographs - Misc. project prints 1968-1972

General note

Includes waves in a vacuum and bottom hopper prints.

Box 170, Folder 11-13

Schick, George B. - Photographs - Drifting camera cruises 7-9 1972

Box 171, Folder 1-5

Schick, George B. - Photographs - Drifting camera cruises 10-11 1972

Box 171, Folder 6

Schick and Sessions. Deep sea free vehicle system operation manual 1965

Box 171, Folder 7

Schwartzlose, Richard. Photographic study of benthic and deep-sea animals 1970 January 22

Box 171, Folder 8

Schwartzlose and Sessions. The effects of corrosion, fish bites, and fouling on deep ocean mooring materials - Photographs ca. 1968

Box 171, Folder 9

Seymour, Richard J. Transient responses of muscles to rapid changes in tension 1974 December 20

Box 171, Folder 10

Sheres, David. Remote and synoptic water wave measurements by aerial photography: A model, experimental results and an application ca. 1977-1980

General note

Includes note thanking Isaacs for his contributions.

Box 195, Folder 1

Sheres, David. Aerial photograph of surface water ca. 1977-1980

Box 171, Folder 11

Sheres, David. Remote synoptic measurement of surface circulation in small bodies of water 1978 July 19

Box 171, Folder 12

Smith, Nancy. Other salt resources ca. 1970-1980

Box 171, Folder 13

Stanfield, Ron. Science and Society in the new industrial state 1974 July 10

General note

Paper developed from a panel discussion at the 1974 meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Box 171, Folder 14

Tont and Wick. Response of a deep scattering layer to total solar eclipse 1973 January 23

Box 171, Folder 15

Tyler, John E. In Situ detection and estimation of chlorophyll and other pigments in the ocean 1961 September

Box 171, Folder 16

Vidal and Vidal. Research proposal drafts and funding correspondence 1973-1976

Box 171, Folder 17

Weeks and Campbell. Icebergs as a fresh water source: An appraisal 1972 August 25-29

Box 171, Folder 18

Wehren, Allen. Wave propelled barge and tow cable (unpublished report) ca. 1975-1980

Box 172, Folder 1

Wick and Castel. The Isaacs wave-energy pump: Final report of field tests off the coast of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii 1977 May 20

Box 172, Folder 2

Wick and Castel. The Isaacs wave-energy pump: Field tests off the coast of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii 1978 May 31

General note

Published in Ocean Engineering.

Box 172, Folder 3-4

Wick, Castel, and Stork. The Isaacs wave-energy pump: Analysis of data obtained during field tests off the coast of Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, November 1976-March 1977 1978 February-1979 August

General note

Report to the U.S. Department of Energy. Includes correspondence related to grant.

Box 172, Folder 5

Wick and Schmitt. Prospects for renewable energy from the sea - Original figures ca. 1977

Box 172, Folder 6

Wiegel, Robert L. First quarter status report of contract NR 257-201 - Memorandum to the Office of Naval Research 1949 January 20

Box 172, Folder 7

Wiegel, Robert L. Oscillatory waves: Diagrams and tables of relationships commonly used in investigations of surface waves 1948 July 1

General note

Bulletin of the Beach Erosion Board, special issue no.1. Includes note of acknowledgement explaining Isaacs' contributions.

Box 172, Folder 8

Wiegel, Robert L. Tables of the functions of D/L and D/L0, part 1 and 2 1948 January 30, 1973

General note

Technical report, UC Berkeley, Department of Engineering reports. Includes correspondence and note of acknowledgement explaining Isaacs' contributions.

Box 172, Folder 9

Wilcox, Howard A. The marine farm project 1975 January 29

General note

Presented at the 141st annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Box 172, Folder 10

Wilcox, Howard A. Wave-powered upwelling, memorandum to Dan Hightower 1974 December 23

Box 172, Folder 11

Unidentified panel transcript on ocean engineering 1965 August 9

General note

Includes panelists: St. Dennis, Vine, Ewing, Scott, and Isaacs.

Box 172, Folder 12-21

Patents by others 1963-1976

General note

Includes patent applications by: Daniel Brown, George B. Schick, Meredith H. Sessions, and A. Soutar and E. Duffrin.

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Collection Contents

BIOGRAPHICAL

CORRESPONDENCE

Chronological Correspondence

Alphabetical Correspondence

RESEARCH

Subject Files

Grants and Proposals

Patents

Notes

ATOMIC TESTS

Operations

Subject Files

Reports

Audiovisual Recordings

WRITINGS

TEACHING MATERIALS

LECTURES AND SPEECHES

CONFERENCES, SYMPOSIA, AND WORKSHOPS

COMMITTEES AND CONSULTING

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

University of California

UC San Diego

Scripps Institution of Oceanography

FOUNDATION FOR OCEAN RESEARCH

MONSTER CAMERA

Photographs

Films

IMAGES

Photographs

Lantern Slides

AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS

Sound Recordings

Films

WORKS BY OTHERS