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Title: William R. Riedel Papers
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0082
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, California, 92093-0175
Languages:
English
Physical Description:
1.0 Linear feet
(1 carton)
Date (inclusive): 1965-1988
Abstract: Correspondence and select subject files of Scripps Institution of Oceanography micropaleontologist William R. Riedel, including
JOIDES Planning Committee files related to the Deep Sea Drilling Project.
Creator:
Riedel, W. R.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection contains the correspondence and select subject files of micropaleontologist William R. Riedel, including JOIDES
Planning Committee files related to the Deep Sea Drilling Project. The correspondence contains professional letters regarding
samples and studies, as well as some data and charts.
William Rex Riedel (b. 1927) is a micropaleontologist from Tanunda, South Australia. He was educated at the University of
Adelaide, where he received his B.Sc. (1947), M.Sc. (1952) and D.Sc. (1976). Riedel began his decades-long career at the Scripps
Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in 1951 as a graduate research geologist. He was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1981. Riedel
is distinguished for his work on taxonomy and stratigraphy of Radiolaria and marine sediments. He participated in many SIO
expeditions, including Northern Holiday (1951) and the Argentine Antarctic Expedition (1956-57). Riedel’s work on stratigraphy
and on the analysis of sediment cores was especially important to the Deep Sea Drilling Program (DSDP). He was active on the
JOIDES Planning Committee, and later served as chair of the SIO Geological Research Division from 1978-1983. Riedel was named
curator of DSDP cores and served on the JOIDES Information Handling Panel beginning in 1990. He was a founder of EURORAD (later
INTERRAD), the international community of radiolarian workers. Riedel retired in 2001.
http://scilib.ucsd.edu/sio/biogr/Riedel_Biogr.pdf
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Acquired 2000.
William R. Riedel Papers. SMC 82. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Deep Sea Drilling Project. -- Archives
Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling. -- Archives
Riedel, W. R. -- Archives
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. -- Archives
Micropaleontology