Eugene Cecil LaFond Papers
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Copyright 2016
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Business Number: 858-534-2533
Fax Number: 858-534-5950
spcoll@ucsd.edu
Descriptive Summary
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Eugene Cecil LaFond Papers
Creator:
LaFond, Eugene Cecil, 1909-2002
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0102
Physical Description:
14.2 Linear feet
(24 archives boxes, 9 card file boxes, 1 flat box, 1 map case folder, and 24 films)
Date (inclusive): 1933-1992 (bulk 1933-1976)
Abstract: Papers of oceanographer Eugene Cecil LaFond. The collection includes oceanographic data records from LaFond's research at
the Navy Electronic Laboratory, as well as photographs of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus, vessels and personnel
in the 1930s.
Languages:
English
.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1986-2006.
Scope and Content of Collection
Papers of oceanographer Eugene Cecil LaFond. The collection includes oceanographic data records from LaFond's research at
the Navy Electronic Laboratory, as well as photographs of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus and personnel in
the 1930s. It also includes a copy of a family memoir written by Eugene and Katherine Gehring LaFond in 1992.
Arranged in four series: 1) DATA RECORDS AND REPORTS; 2) PHOTOGRAPHS; 3) FILMS; AND 4) FAMILY HISTORY.
Preferred Citation
Eugene Cecil LaFond Papers. SMC 102. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
OFF-SITE STORAGE
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Publication Information
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Digital Content
Selected images from this collection have been digitized and are available on the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections
website. Many films from this collection have been digitized; see the container list for details.
Biography
Eugene Cecil LaFond (1909-1992) began his career at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) as a technical assistant
before his promotion to oceanographer, and eventually marine biologist, from 1933 to 1941. He married chemist Katherine Gehring
in 1935. In 1941, LaFond was given a leave from SIO to join the University of California Division of War Research (UCDWR)
as part of its newly created Oceanographic Studies Group. LaFond was one of the scientific consultants who, in 1946, participated
in atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in Operation Crossroads. Among his many roles at SIO, LaFond photographed the campus
and personnel in the 1930s, and contributed charts and illustrations for the foundational oceanography textbook
The Oceans: Their Physics, Chemistry, and General Biology (1942). In 1946, LaFond joined the Navy Electronics Laboratory (NEL) to head the Marine Environment Division. Over the
next two decades LaFond took a number of leaves of absence from NEL to pursue other research activities and interests, including
work on the International Indian Ocean Expedition (IIOE) from 1959-1964 and as visiting professor at Andhra University in
the early 1950s. While at NEL, LaFond helped pioneer the use of submersibles to study the ocean floor, including the
Trieste,
Soucoupe Marine, and
Westinghouse Deepstar 4000. LaFond returned to NEL in 1964 and remained there as senior scientist and consulting oceanographer until his retirement.
Restrictions
Original film formats are restricted. Viewing copies may be available for researchers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographic prints -- 1930-1939
LaFond, Eugene Cecil, 1909-2002 -- Archives
Scripps Institution of Oceanography -- Archives
United States. Navy. Electronics Laboratory -- Archives
E.W. Scripps (Ship) -- Photographs
DATA RECORDS AND REPORTS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 1) DATA RECORDS AND REPORTS: Oceanographic data in various formats, including logs, charts and reports recording weather
patterns, oceans swells, temperatures, and bathythermograph glass slides and readings. The data covers two decades, 1952-1972,
and was collected by LaFond from a wide assortment of domestic and international cruises, as well as local data collection
points from boats, piers, and ocean platforms. It does not represent a cohesive data record of any one set of variables, but
is a representative sample of the types of records LaFond gathered and consulted in the course of his research.
Arranged in four subseries: A) Cruise Data; B) Tower and Ocean Data; C) Bathythermograph (BT); and D) Determination of Transmission
Anomaly Fields for a Sound Source Reports.
Box 1, Folder 1
Cruise #4, Thermistor chain test, USS
Marysville (to Honolulu)
1961 August 3-September 3
Box 1, Folder 2
Cruise #5, Thermistor chain log, USS
Marysville
1961 October 17-22
Box 1, Folder 3
Cruise #6, Thermistor chain
1961 November 11-18
Box 1, Folder 4
Cruise #6, Thermistor chain
1961 November 11-20
Box 22, Folder 1
Cruise #6, recording paper for sonar sounding set, Sea mount A, B, and C
1961 November 11-15
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 1, Folder 5-6
Cruise #7, Thermistor chain
1961 November 27-29
Box 1, Folder 7
Cruise #8, Thermistor chain log, Mazatlan
1962 January 22-February 18
Box 1, Folder 8
Cruise #8, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1962 January 23-Feburary 18
Box 22, Folder 2
Cruise #8, recording paper for sonar sounding set, San Diego to Baja California (Roll #1)
1962 January 22-30
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 22, Folder 3
Cruise #8, recording paper for sonar sounding set, Mazatlan to San Diego (Roll #2)
1962 February 10
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 22, Folder 4
Cruise #8, recording paper for sonar sounding set, no location provided (Roll #3)
1962 February 17
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 2, Folder 1
Cruise #9 and #12, Thermistor chain log
1962 February 27-June 21
Box 2, Folder 2
Cruise #9 and #12, NEL Thermistor chain, Ships heading
1962 February 28-June 21
Box 23, Folder 1
Cruise #12, recoding paper for sonar sounding set, San Francisco to Cobb Sea Mount
1962 July 25-August 8
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 2, Folder 3
Cruise #9A, NEL Thermistor chain, Tower Operation
1962 April 30-May 9
Box 2, Folder 4
Cruise #10, Thermistor chain log
1962 May 22-23
Box 2, Folder 5
Cruise #10, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1962 May 22-23
Box 2, Folder 6
Cruise #11, Thermistor chain log
1962 June 4-6
Box 2, Folder 7
Cruise #11, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1962 June 4-8
Box 3, Folder 1
Cruise #13, Thermistor chain log
1962 July 9-11
Box 3, Folder 2
Cruise #13, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor chain log
1962 July 9-12
Box 3, Folder 3
Cruise #14, Thermistor chain log
1962 July 24-August 24
Box 3, Folder 4
Cruise #14, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1962 July 24-August 25
Box 3, Folder 5
Cruise #15, Thermistor chain log
1963 January 3-4
Box 3, Folder 6
Cruise #15, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1963 January 3
Box 3, Folder 7
Cruise #18, Thermistor chain log
1963 January 21-February 21
Box 4, Folder 1
Cruise #18, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1963 January 21-February 21
Box 4, Folder 2
Cruise #19, Thermistor chain log
1963 March 11-19
Box 4, Folder 3
Cruise #19, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1963 March 12-20
Box 4, Folder 4
Cruise #20, Thermistor chain log
1963 April 3-10
Box 4, Folder 5
Cruise #20, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor chain log
1963 April 3-9
Box 4, Folder 6
Cruise #21, Thermistor chain log
1963 August 19-28
Box 4, Folder 7
Cruise #21, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1963 August 26-28
Box 5, Folder 1
Cruise #21, PDR log
1963 August 19-26
Box 5, Folder 2
Cruise #22, Thermistor chain log
1963 September 16-26
Box 5, Folder 3
Cruise #22, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1963 September 17-25
Box 5, Folder 4
Cruise #23, Thermistor chain log
1963 October 9-17
Box 5, Folder 5
Cruise #23, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1963 October 10-17
Box 5, Folder 6
Cruise #24, Thermistor chain log
1963 December 3-5
Box 5, Folder 7
Cruise #24, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1963 December 3-6
Box 6, Folder 1
Cruise #25, NEL Thermistor chain
1964 February 17-19
Box 6, Folder 2
Cruise #25, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor chain log
1964 February 17-20
Box 23, Folder 2
Cruise #25, recording paper for sonar sounding set, Lausen Sea Mount to San Pedro Channel, Buoy Placement
1964 February 11-18
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 6, Folder 3
Cruise #26, Thermistor chain log
1964 March 2-5
Box 6, Folder 4
Cruise #27, Thermistor chain log
1964 March 16-19
Box 6, Folder 5
Cruise #27, Chain angle log
1964 March 16-19
Box 6, Folder 6
Cruise #27, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1964 March 16-19
Box 23, Folder 3
Cruise #27, recording paper for sonar sounding set
1964 March 19
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 6, Folder 7
Cruise #28, Thermistor chain log
1964 March 30-April 9
Box 7, Folder 1
Cruise #28, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor log
1964 April 2-7
Box 7, Folder 2
Cruise #31, Operation Boundary and Gulf of California
1965 March 9-April 15
Box 7, Folder 3
Cruise #31, Thermistor chain
1965 March 9-Apirl 15
Box 7, Folder 4
Cruise #32, Thermistor chain
1965 May 28-June 11
Box 7, Folder 5
Cruise #32, Chain log Alaska Dutch Harbor to Pribilof Islands to San Francisco
1965 June 27-July 26
Box 7, Folder 6
Cruise #33, Positions relative to radar buoy system
circa 1965
Box 7, Folder 7
Cruise #34, Laboratory log
1965 October 25-27
Box 8, Folder 1
Cruise #34, Bridge log
1965 October 26-28
Box 8, Folder 2
Cruise #35, Laboratory log
1966 January 17-April 11
Box 8, Folder 3
Cruise #35, Course, speed, and position, Thermistor chain log
1966 January 17-April 10
Box 8, Folder 4
Cruise #35, collected data and chart
undated
Box 25, Folder 1
Cruise #35, surface temperature record
1966
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Oversize Annex MC-010, Folder 04
Cruise #36, Part VI, Cruise map Japan Sea Expedition Kuroshiro Current (1 sheet)
undated
Oversize Annex MC-010, Folder 04
Cruise #36, Temperature-Depth Cross Section, US NEL Thermistor Chain, Japan Sea Expedition (3 sheets)
undated
Box 8, Folder 5
Cruise #37, Thermistor chain
1968 January 9-31
Box 8, Folder 6
Cruise #38, Laboratory log
1968 March 11-14
Box 8, Folder 7
Cruise #38, Bridge log
1968 March 11-15
Oversize Annex MC-010, Folder 04
Cruise #41, Santa Barbara Channel and tow tracks, charts (10 sheets)
undated
Oversize Annex MC-010, Folder 04
Cruise #44, Parka II, Position plotting sheets (4 sheets)
1969
Box 8, Folder 8
Cruise #42, NUWC Thermistor Chain Log
1968 December 3
Box 8, Folder 9
Cruise log and data sheets, includes Cruise #37
undated
Box 9, Folder 1
The Internal Tides off Southern California, as obtained from Thermistor Chain Records, by W. Krauss
undated
Box 9, Folder 2
Cruise and current meters, by W. Krauss
1963 August-1964 February
Box 9, Folder 3
Lagged bead log #1, electro instruments system tower
1965 May 4-November 9
Box 9, Folder 4
Lagged bead log #2, tower lagged vertical array on N.W. leg
1965 November 17-1966 December 14
Box 9, Folder 5
Lagged bead log #3, tower lagged vertical array in N.W. leg
1966 December 14-1967 December 7
Box 9, Folder 6
Tower lagged vertical array on N.W. leg
1967 December 27-1972 June 15
Box 9, Folder 7
Field data CRT and other recorders, NEL Tower
1965 July 7-22
Box 9, Folder 8
Drogue and tide, NEL Tower
1965 June 30-July 22
Box 10, Folder 1
Tower drogue measurement and tide
1965 August 16-27
Box 10, Folder 2
Tower data log
1966 September 27-October 5
Box 10, Folder 3
Waterfront temperature recorder log
1967 February 1-1968 May 20
Oversize Annex MC-010, Folder 04
Tower data beads 12-17, daily temperatures (oversize plot charts, 2 sheets)
1966 September-1967 September
Box 10, Folder 4-26
1966 December-1968 October
Box 11, Folder 20-21
Internal Wave Data, Location 1 Off Mission Beach
1958 July
Box 11, Folder 22-23
Internal Wave Data, Location 2 Off Mission Beach
1958 July
Box 11, Folder 24-25
Internal Wave Data, Location 3 Off Mission Beach
1958 July
Box 12, Folder 1
NEL Tower temperature readings
undated
Box 12, Folder 2
Tracing, figures, and maps - Mexico
undated
Box 12, Folder 3
Charts and graphs of ocean currents and temperatures
undated
Box 20, Folder 1
NEL Tower Vertical and Sand Beach data, Roll #112
1966 November 22-25
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 20, Folder 2
NEL Tower with lagged beads, Roll #31
1965 November 3-10
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 20, Folder 3
Tower E.I. digital temperature recording system, Roll #14
1965 July 30-August 4
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 20, Folder 4
NEL Tower lagged bead data, Roll #17
1965 August 10-13
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 21, Folder 1
Surface array data, NUC Tower
1969 July
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 21, Folder 2
Lagged vertical and sand beads, NUC Tower, Roll #318
1970 September 4-11
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 21, Folder 3
Lagged vertical and sand beads, NUC Tower, Roll #325
1970 October 23-30
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 21, Folder 4
Vertical lagged beads, NUC Tower, Roll #401
1972 June
General note
Rolled data chart in original box. Box includes note: "The End Forever!"
Box 24, Folder 1
Wind velocity and direction
1962 May 18-June 4
General note
Rolled data chart in original box. Labeled US Navy Electronics Lab, Dale E. Good.
Box 24, Folder 2
Wind velocity and direction
1962 October 2-19
General note
Rolled data chart in original box. Labeled US Navy Electronics Lab.
Box 24, Folder 3
Tower, 32 knots winds
1963 April 8
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 24, Folder 4
Tower wind direction and speed
1965 March 12-28
General note
Rolled data chart in original envelope.
Box 24, Folder 5
Wind direction and velocity indicator, NUWC Tower, Roll #101
1967 December 29-1968 January 9
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 24, Folder 6
Anemometer data, NUWC Tower, Roll #111
1968 May 10-24
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 25, Folder 2
Current meters #1 and #2
1965 May 31
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 25, Folder 3
Current meter, Roll 1
1969 July 29
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 25, Folder 4
Current meter, Roll 2
1969 August 8
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 25, Folder 5
Tower Stratham type wave height recorder data
1966 October 3-4
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 25, Folder 6
Tower acoustical wave height records
1966 October 4
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 25, Folder 7
Stratham wave height recorder, Run "C"
1966 October 4-1967 October 4
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 25, Folder 8
Wave height data, tide compensated transducer, NUC Tower
1969 November 25-1970 April 23
General note
Rolled data chart in original box.
Box 26, Folder 1-5
Tide gauge data, NUC Tower (Rolls #1-5)
1970 October 30-1971 August 6
General note
Five rolled data charts in original boxes.
Box 27, Folder 1-4
Southwest temperature data, Code 59 (Emory)
1960 August 3-11
General note
Four loose rolled data charts.
Box 27, Folder 5
Tower Report, Tower Data
1959 November 6
General note
Loose rolled data chart.
Box 27, Folder 6
Wave height record for pressure transducer located at vertical array #1 and at Tower depth 25 feet
1966 October 5
General note
Loose rolled data chart. Note on chart in quotes: "Dr. Knauss said this was the end of record."
Box 12, Folder 4
Instruction book for bathythermograph
1948
Box 12, Folder 5
Bathythermograph observations booklet
1951
Box 12, Folder 6
David W. Taylor Model Basin photographs and descriptions
1943 April 5
Box 28, Folder 1-2
Bathythermograph slides (glass slides in wooden cases)
1956, 1957 July 16-17
General note
Two wooden boxes containing bathythermograph glass slides. Boxes labeled: "Saur Pt. Barrow 56" and "Sweetwater 16-17 July
'57".
Box 29, Folder 1-3
Bathythermograph slides (glass slides in wooden cases)
1955, 1957 July 16-17
General note
Three wooden boxes containing bathythermograph glass slides. Boxes labeled: "LaFond and Dill - E. W. Scripps - 1955" (2 boxes)
and "Sweetwater 16 July '57".
Box 30, Folder 1-4
Bathythermograph slides (glass slides in plastic cases)
1958, 1959, 1963, and undated
General note
Four plastic containers of bathythermograph glass slides. Boxes labeled: "BT Slides #1-47, SESCO Cruise Oct 29 - Nov 7;" unlabeled
box with slides from 1958; "N.E.L. Pier June-July 1959;" and "Tower 7-III-63 to 5-23-63."
Box 31, Folder 1-4
Bathythermograph slides (glass slides in plastic cases)
1963, 1964, 1969
General note
Four plastic containers of bathythermograph glass slides. Boxes labeled containing NEL Tower data and Cruise #25.
Box 32, Folder 1-4
Bathythermograph slides (glass slides in plastic cases)
1966, 1969, 1970, 1971
General note
Four plastic containers of bathythermograph glass slides. Boxes labeled as Cruise #26, #30, #33, and #35.
Box 33
Bathythermograph slides photograph record cards
1952 April-June
General note
Front of note cards contains printed image of data from bathythermograph slides superimposed on a numbered graph. Back of
note cards include informational data, such as date, location, vessel, speed, surf and weather. Vessels include U.S.S. Marysville
(U.S.S. EPCE (R) 857).
Box 34
Bathythermograph slides photograph record cards
1954 February-June
General note
Front of note cards contains printed image of data from bathythermograph slides superimposed on a numbered graph. Back of
note cards include informational data, such as date, location, vessel, speed, surf and weather. Vessels include R/V Horizon,
R/V Spencer F. Baird, and U.S.S. Marysville (U.S.S. EPCE (R) 857).
Box 12, Folder 7
Bathythermograph slide photograph graph templates
undated
General note
Plastic ruler graphs used to create photographic prints of bathythermograph slides (see Bathythermograph slides photograph
record cards in boxes 33 and 34).
Determination of Transmission Anomaly Fields for a Sound Source Reports
Box 12, Folder 8-9
Ray Paths, Table 1, Case 1
1957 November 13
Box 12, Folder 10
Intensity and Transmission Anomaly, Table 2, Case 1
1957 November 13
Box 12, Folder 11-12
Ray Paths, Table 1, Case 1
1958 July 29
Box 12, Folder 13
Intensity and Transmission Anomaly, Table 2, Case 1
1958 July 29
Box 13, Folder 1-2
Table of sound intensity I and anomaly A, Table 1, Case 1
1959 March 30
Box 13, Folder 3
Table of total sound intensity I and anomaly A, Table 2, Case 1
1959 March 30
Box 13, Folder 4-5
Table of sound intensity I and anomaly A, Table 1, Case 2
1959 April 6
Box 13, Folder 6
Table of sound intensity I and anomaly A, Table 2, Case 1
1959 April 6
PHOTOGRAPHS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 2) PHOTOGRAPHS: Images by LaFond of SIO personnel, visitors, and the campus in the 1930s, including the research vessels
Scripps and the
E.W. Scripps, as well as color negatives of Deepstar submersible dives. Images of SIO personnel are arranged alphabetically by last name.
Approximately 200 images from this series have been digitized, and are available on the UC San Diego Digital Collections website.
Arranged in five subseries: A) People and Portraits; B) R/V
Scripps; C) R/V
E.W. Scripps; D) SIO and San Diego; and E) Deepstar Submersible.
Box 13, Folder 7
Allen, Winfred Emory
circa 1935
Box 13, Folder 8
Anderson, David Quentin
circa 1935
Box 13, Folder 9
Armstrong, Ursel Sidney
1934
Box 13, Folder 10
Barnhart, Percy Spencer
1935
Box 13, Folder 11
Bostwick, LaPlace
undated
Box 13, Folder 12
Chambers, Stanley W.
circa 1936
Box 13, Folder 13
Coe, Wesley Roswell
circa 1935
Box 13, Folder 15
Cummings, Nelphi Willard
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 1
Cummingham, John
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 2
Cupp, Easter Ellen
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 3
Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Charles
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 4
Dietz, Robert Sinclair
circa 1935-1939
General note
Includes Kenneth O. Emery.
Box 14, Folder 5
Doudoroff, Peter
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 6
Emery, Kenneth O.
circa 1938
Box 14, Folder 8
Feltham, Catherine B.
1936
Box 14, Folder 10
Fleming, Richard Howell
1936, 1938 September 15
Box 14, Folder 11
Fox, Denis Llewellyn
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 12
Genter, Tillie
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 13
Gordon, Robert Dean
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 14
Gripenberg, Hedvig Christina Augusta
undated
Box 14, Folder 15
Hanzawa, Shoshiro
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 16
Harper, Jacob Chandler
circa 1936
Box 14, Folder 17
Helland-Hansen, Bjorn
undated
Box 14, Folder 19
Hindman, James Clark
circa 1939
Box 14, Folder 20
Jacobs, Woodrow Cooper
circa 1936
Box 14, Folder 21
Jao, Chin-Chih
circa 1936
Box 14, Folder 22
Johnson, Carl Irwin
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 23
Johnson, Martin Wiggo
1935
Box 14, Folder 24
Johnson, Thelma
1938 October and undated
Box 14, Folder 25
LaFond, Eugene Cecil
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 26
LaFond, Katherine Gehring
1935
Box 14, Folder 28
Lloyd, Blodwen
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 30
Maler, Oliver
1938 October and undated
Box 14, Folder 32
Marshall, Lauriston C.
undated
Box 14, Folder 33
McEwen, George Francis
circa 1935, 1938
Box 14, Folder 34
McKitrick, Ruth
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 36
Miller, Loye Holmes
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 37
Moberg, Erik Gustaf
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 38
Monk, Cecil Ray
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 40
Nakamura, Hiomi
circa 1935
Box 14, Folder 42
Niederman, Howard
circa 1935
Box 15, Folder 1
Painter, Christina A.
undated
Box 15, Folder 4
Rader, Melvin (Tubby)
undated
Box 15, Folder 6
Revelle, Roger
circa 1933-1938
Box 15, Folder 7
Rittenberg, Sydney Charles
circa 1935
Box 15, Folder 8
Ross, James M.
circa 1935
General note
Includes D.L. Witt.
Box 15, Folder 10
Sargent, Marston
circa 1935
Box 15, Folder 11
Scheer, Bradley Titus
1935
Box 15, Folder 12
Shepard, Francis Parker
1940
Box 15, Folder 14
Sparks, Frances
1938 October
Box 15, Folder 15
Sproul, Robert Gordon
circa 1935-1936
General note
Includes Thomas Wayland Vaughan.
Box 15, Folder 16
Sverdrup, Harald
1938 December
Box 15, Folder 19
Thorp, Eldon Marion
circa 1935
Box 15, Folder 20
Tibby, Richard Bitner
undated
Box 15, Folder 21
Trask, Parker D.
circa 1935
Box 15, Folder 22
Vaughan, Carolyn
circa 1936
General note
Includes Roger Revelle.
Box 15, Folder 23
Vaughan, Thomas Wayland
1934 and undated
Box 15, Folder 24
Watson, Chandler
1938 October
Box 15, Folder 25
Wells, Nelson Alfred
circa 1935
Box 15, Folder 26
Whedon, Whedon Forest
undated
Box 15, Folder 27
Wilson, Robert E.
circa 1935
Box 15, Folder 29
ZoBell, Claude Ephraim
1936 and undated
Box 15, Folder 30
Views of ship
circa 1933-1935
Box 16, Folder 1
Views of ship
circa 1933-1935
Box 16, Folder 2
Operations aboard ship
undated
Box 16, Folder 3
Ship at moorings
undated
General note
Includes George F. McEwen.
Box 16, Folder 4
Ship at San Diego Yacht Club mooring, leaving on cruise
circa 1934
Box 16, Folder 6
Hauling in the plankton net
undated
Box 16, Folder 7
Plankton hauls at sea
undated
Box 16, Folder 8
Varney-Redwine Deep Sea Corer
undated
Box 16, Folder 9
Man attaching Nansen bottle to wire
undated
Box 16, Folder 10
Operations at sea, Hiomi Nakamura with dip net
undated
Box 16, Folder 11
Operations at sea, Richard H. Fleming
circa 1935
General note
Includes Roger Revelle.
Box 16, Folder 12
Operations at sea, Loye Holmes Miller with seabirds
1935 August 1
Box 16, Folder 13
Loye Holmes Miller, portrait on expedition near Channel Islands
1935 August 1
Box 16, Folder 14
Loye Holmes Miller, with bird collection
1935 August 1
Box 16, Folder 15
Roger Revelle and Richard H. Fleming
1935 July 23
Box 16, Folder 16
Martin Johnson with plankton net
1935 August 1
General note
Includes Roger Revelle and Earl Myers.
Box 16, Folder 17
Richard H. Fleming and Martin Wiggo Johnson with Nansen bottles
undated
Box 16, Folder 18
Richard H. Fleming, Martin Johnson, and Earl Myers with Nansen bottles
1935 August 1
Box 16, Folder 19
Richard H. Fleming and Erik Moberg
1935 August 1
Box 16, Folder 20
M. Johnson, R. Fleming and others
1935
Box 16, Folder 21
Dr. R. Revelle (standing) and Dr. E. Moberg on R/V
Scripps
circa 1935
Box 16, Folder 22
Earl Myers, Erik Moberg, Roger Revelle
1935 July 2
Box 16, Folder 24
Roger Revelle
1935 July 23
Box 16, Folder 25
Roger Revelle on deck with specimens
1935 August 1
Box 16, Folder 26
Earl Myers and Roger Revelle with Nansen bottle
undated
Box 16, Folder 27
Katherine Gehring LaFond, water sample from Nansen bottle and chemical analysis
1935 July 23
Box 16, Folder 28
Eugene Cecil LaFond and current meter
circa 1935
Box 16, Folder 29
Erik Moberg writing and Martin Johnson
circa 1935
Box 16, Folder 30
Cecil Ray Monk with plankton net
circa 1935
Box 17, Folder 1
Coring operations at sea
1935 September 23-26
General note
Includes Roger Revelle, Hiomi Nakamura, D.Q. Anderson, and Richard Fleming.
Box 17, Folder 2
Pelican on deck
1935 September 26
Box 17, Folder 3
After explosion
1936 November
Box 17, Folder 4
Salvage operations
1936 November
Box 17, Folder 5
Dredge off San Pedro
1937 January 14
General note
Includes "Chief, Fran, Bob, [Eugene LaFond], Herb Mann, Moberg and Stose."
Box 17, Folder 6
Roger Revelle on deck
1937 January 14
Box 17, Folder 7
Ship reconditioned
undated
Box 17, Folder 8
Operations at sea, man collecting sample with Nansen bottle
undated
Box 17, Folder 9
Operations at sea, men with plankton net
undated
Box 17, Folder 10
Views of ship
circa 1937-1938
Box 17, Folder 11
Clem Stose shooting the sun
circa 1938
Box 17, Folder 12
Roger Revelle and others with winch
circa 1938
Box 17, Folder 13
Erik Gustaf Moberg at winch
circa 1937-1938
Box 17, Folder 14
Collecting plankton sample at sea
undated
Box 17, Folder 15
Boat work, includes Roger Revelle and Earl Myers
circa 1936
Box 17, Folder 16
Harald Ulrick Sverdrup and current meter
circa 1937-1938
Box 17, Folder 17
Under sail at Monterey
1938 September
Box 17, Folder 18-19
Views of SIO campus
circa 1933-1940
General note
Includes views from the pier and hills.
Oversize Annex MC-010, Folder 04
Panorama photograph of SIO campus, includes pier (oversize print)
undated
Box 17, Folder 20
Panorama photograph of SIO campus (original negative)
1933
Box 17, Folder 21
Looking toward SIO beach and seawall from pier (beach erosion study)
undated
Box 17, Folder 22
Biological Grade and Community House
circa 1935
Box 17, Folder 23
Biological Grade, up from SIO to top of hill
1935
Box 17, Folder 24
Community House
circa 1935
Box 17, Folder 25
Parking lot north of Scripps building
circa 1935
Box 18, Folder 1
Office of the Director
circa 1935
Box 18, Folder 2
Scripps seawall
circa 1935
Box 18, Folder 3
SIO waterfront cottages and pier
1935
Box 18, Folder 4
Elephant rock and cliffs north of Scripps campus
circa 1938
Box 18, Folder 5
Cottages on SIO campus
undated
Box 18, Folder 8
SIO Library (original)
1935
Box 18, Folder 9
On inner campus road, SIO
circa 1935
Box 18, Folder 11
Tide pool collecting party
undated
General note
Includes Print Series #313, 314
Box 18, Folder 12
Dr. Kurt Bush visit to SIO campus
1935 August, 1936
General note
Includes T. Wayland Vaughan, Norris Rakestraw, Richard Fleming, Roger Revelle, and Erik Moberg.
Box 18, Folder 13
Bjorn Helland Hansen visit to SIO campus
1935 October 29
General note
Includes Francis Bertody Sumner, George Francis McEwen, Roger Revelle, Blodwyn Lloyd, Richard H. Fleming, Thomas Wayland Vaughan,
Erik Gustaf Moberg, W.E. Allen, Alice and Elizabeth Fleming, Marian Moberg, Ellen Revelle, and Dorothy Vaughan.
Box 18, Folder 14
Robert Sinclair Dietz and Kenneth O. Emery sitting on car at SIO
1938
Box 18, Folder 15
Lowering Shepard's sediment trap from SIO pier, with Kenneth O. Emery
undated
Box 18, Folder 16
Wave recorder at end of SIO Pier
circa 1937-1938
Box 18, Folder 17
Photograph album (deconstructed)
1935-1936
General note
Includes images of R/V
Scripps at sea, operations on R/V
Scripps, Dr. Helland Hansen visit, and R/V
E.W. Scripps at sea.
Box 18, Folder 18
Aerial photograph negatives, showing Oceanside pier and harbor
undated
Deepstar Submersible Dives
Box 19
Dive 185, 186, 187, film #951553
undated
General note
70mm, color negatives, still photographs, rolled
Box 19
Dives 368 and 369, films #951549-951552
undated
General note
70mm, color negatives, still photographs, rolled
FILMS
Scope and Content of Series
Series 3) FILMS: 24 films with unique footage from data collection sites, expeditions, and submersibles. All films, with
the exception of one, are silent. There are a number of films entitled "Great Banana Expedition" which include footage of
the submersible Deepstar as well as footage both on deck and below the ocean's surface. LaFond can be spotted in these films
as well, though he is the presumed creator of much of the footage. Of particular note is a film depicting a presentation
of the Explorer's Club flag, followed by its submersion into the ocean with underwater scenes. All films are 16mm and silent,
unless otherwise noted in the description.
Oversize FS-62
Great Banana Expedition, LaFond gear, installed equipment on Deepstar
1968 January 15
General note
Film #951513.
Oversize FS-53
Great Banana Expedition, LaFond gear
1968 January 15
General note
Film #951518.
Oversize FS-52
Great Banana Expedition, Dive 339
1968
General note
Film #951517. Film includes footage of installation of test gear on Deepstar.
Oversize FS-41
Great Banana Expedition, Dive 343 (part 1)
1968
General note
Film #951522.
Oversize FS-42
Great Banana Expedition, Dive 343 (part 2)
1968
General note
Film #951522.
Oversize FS-45
Great Banana Expedition, topside activities, Deepstar dives 336-338 (part 1)
1968 January-February
General note
Film #951524.
Oversize FS-46
Great Banana Expedition, topside activities, Deepstar dives 336-338 (part 2)
1968 January-February
General note
Film #951524.
Oversize FS-58
Slicks and tower work film entitled "Sea Slicks and Their Movement"
circa 1969
General note
Film #951539. Film shows slicks observed from water tower in San Diego and instrument is lowered into ocean.
Oversize FS-54
Slick scenes at tower
1976
General note
Film #951534. Silent for most of film on ocean and research platform includes handling of tower equipment and a diver named
"Bill." Film ends with sound and visual of an interview in front of Deepstar, explaining activities and purpose.
Oversize FS-56
Slicks
1969 July 23
General note
Film #951535. Footage from top of platform in ocean, and includes view of person dropping line of dye into ocean. Footage
similar on film #951537, but filmed on different dates.
Oversize FS-57
Slicks
1969 July 16, 25
General note
Film #951537. Footage similar on film #951535, but filmed on different dates.
Oversize FS-49
Slicks using mirror at tower
undated
General note
Film #951556.
Oversize FS-55
Slicks from tower for pollution seminar
1976
General note
Film #951532. Title at film's start: Sea Slicks and Their Movement. Shows platform (Naval Undersea R&D Center) and views from
platform and boat of ocean and slicks.
Oversize FS-40
Internal wave motion in shallow water
1969 November 11
General note
Film #951514. Views of slicks in ocean and charting data.
Oversize FS-60
Internal wave motion in shallow water (part A) - Explorer's Club footage
1968 January 17-21
General note
Film #951523. Film Part A shows Explorer's Club flag presented to crew, lowered into ocean, and then viewed from underwater.
Oversize FS-61
Internal wave motion in shallow water (part B) - Explorer's Club footage
1968 January 17-21
General note
Film #951523. Film Part B shows Explorer's Club flag underwater with sea life. Film header for Part B lists names Bradley,
LaFond, Church, Good, Dill, and Dietz.
Oversize FS-44
Deep and shallow water footage
1965
General note
Film #951512. Film includes underwater shots and footage of temperature recording from off the Baja California and San Diego
coasts.
Oversize FS-50
Deepstar scenes of the ocean floor, Coronado Canyon
1968
General note
Film #951538.
Oversize FS-43
Deepstar dives 448-451
undated
General note
Film #951530. Underwater footage from Deepstar, each dive number announced with sign.
Oversize FS-47
Deepstar footage
1974 September 1
General note
Film #951528. Film starts with brief footage from informational film, "Physical and Chemical Studies of the Water-Sea Floor
Interface," followed by footage before (above water) and during (underwater) Deepstar dives.
Oversize FS-51
Deepstar footage
undated
General note
Film #951542. Film starts with brief footage from informational film, "Physical and Chemical Studies of the Water-Sea Floor
Interface," followed by footage above water, similar to film #951528, showing workshop and preparing for dives.
Oversize FS-48
Dye dropping at tower
1969
General note
Film #951519. 16mm film, silent.
Oversize FS-39
Sea See and Tower
1968 July 12
General note
Film #951533. Film shows platform and boats out in ocean. Includes footage of dropping dye into water and underwater footage
of diver.
Oversize FS-59
Soucoupe dive 186
1964 December 16
General note
Film #951555. 35mm film, silent.
FAMILY HISTORY
Scope and Content of Series
Series 4) FAMILY HISTORY: A copy of the Lafond family memoirs written by Eugene and Katherine LaFond in 1992.
Box 18, Folder 19-20
"Bill and Bob, Where Did You Come From?" by Eugene and Katherine LaFond
1992 December