Jump to Content

Collection Guide
Collection Title:
Collection Number:
Get Items:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marine Life Research Group Records
SAC 0020  
View entire collection guide What's This?
Search this collection
 
 
Table of contents What's This?

 

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Documents administrative activities, research, and public outreach. Of particular note is correspondence by John D. Isaacs, Director of MLRG; Richard A. Schwartzlose; and George T. Hemmingway who served as CalCOFI coordinator, Marine Life Research Group Assistant Director, liaison with marine science institutions in Mexico, and coordinator of the International Program at SIO. Includes correspondence in English and Spanish.
Arranged chronologically, followed by alphabetical correspondence.
Box 1, Folder 1-12

Chronological correspondence 1949-1990

General note

Includes budgets, meeting minutes, and cruise reports | draft proposal by Schwartzlose and Reid on rapid evaluation of CalCOFI samples (1975) | CalCOFI and Instituto Nacional de Pesca (INP) meeting materials (1980) | description of the International Program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) (1981) | Tinker Fellowship program correspondence (1981-1985) | Interamericas Program correspondence (1982-1987) | proposals to the Marine Life Research Advisory Panel (1984) | reorganization of the MLRG (1988-1989).
 

Alphabetical correspondence

Box 1, Folder 13-14

Ahlstrom, Elbert H. 1949-1966

General note

Includes correspondence regarding CalCOFI budget and proposal to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Box 1, Folder 15

Alverson, Dayton L. 1968

Box 1, Folder 16

Anderson, George C. 1978-1985

Box 1, Folder 17

Baxter, John L. 1964-1967

General note

Includes CalCOFI Committee correspondence.
Box 1, Folder 18

Bogdanovich, Joseph J. 1964

General note

Includes correspondence with Marine Research Committee (MRC) regarding Mexico and U.S. anchovy quota.
Box 1, Folder 19

Brinton, Edward 1972-1986

Box 1, Folder 20

Bruce, Edward F. 1962-1969

General note

Includes research paper "The impact of new technology on ocean fish conservation and management as seen by the Marine Research Committee" by Edward F. Bruce.
Box 1, Folder 21

Bryan, Walter R. 1975 November-1983 November

General note

Includes description of cruise scheduling for SIO expedition. Letter from 1975 is written in Spanish.
Box 1, Folder 22

Burnette, Julian G. 1958-1967

General note

Includes correspondence regarding CalCOFI investigations.
Box 1, Folder 23

Butler, Robert 1980

Box 1, Folder 24

California Department of Fish and Game 1958-1967

General note

Includes correspondence regarding the protest of the dispersal of radioactive materials in the Pacific and Atomic Energy Commission meeting. Also, includes "A report on problems of the commercial fishing industry and the role of the Department of Fish and Game."
Box 1, Folder 25

Canney, Kathleen A. 1985

General note

Includes correspondence in Spanish.
Box 1, Folder 26

Cannon, Raymond, 1958-1959

General note

Includes correspondence regarding extension of research territory into the Gulf of California.
Box 1, Folder 27

Carry, Charles R. 1966-1969

General note

Includes petition regarding the recreational fishing of anchovies.
Box 1, Folder 28

Cheng, Lanna 1972-1978

General note

Includes description of the Marine Insects Symposium at SIO.
Box 1, Folder 29

Cook, Maria L. 1980-1982

General note

Includes correspondence between the International Cooperation Assistance program regarding a need for Spanish translation materials.
Box 1, Folder 30

Croker, Richard S. 1958-1962

General note

Includes the purchase of a new research vessel to be used by CalCOFI program.
Box 1, Folder 31

Crowe, Fred J. 1976-1985

Box 1, Folder 32

Dougherty, Ruth A. 1982-1985

General note

Includes description of display and events taking place inside of the Mexicali museum.
Box 1, Folder 33

Faughn, James L. 1974 May

Box 1, Folder 34

Fenaux, Robert P. 1972-1973

Box 1, Folder 35-40

Fleminger, Abraham 1961-1986

General note

Includes cruise report from Phase IX of the Amazon-Caribbean Expedition.
Box 1, Folder 41

Forster, G.R. 1971-1974

General note

Includes correspondence with Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.
Box 1, Folder 42

Gates, Doyle 1961-1971

Box 1, Folder 43

Gilchrist, John P. 1967

General note

Includes correspondence with the California Seafood Institute regarding the Governor's Advisory Commission recommendation.
Box 1, Folder 44

Gillenwaters, T.R. 1968

General note

Includes paper by Gillenwaters titled "The state's involvement in the maritime and ocean resources and development."
Box 1, Folder 45

Haury, Loren R. 1978-1985

Box 1, Folder 46

Hayward, Thomas L. 1982-1986

Box 1, Folder 47

Johnson, Martin W. 1979-1982

Box 1, Folder 48-49

Longhurst, Alan R. 1967-1968

General note

Includes correspondence regarding the Eastropac Expedition.
Box 1, Folder 50

McHugh, J.L. 1958-1969

Box 1, Folder 51

Miller, Robert C. 1958-1970

Box 2, Folder 1-6

Murphy, Garth I. 1958-1971

General note

Includes CalCOFI draft reports regarding fish egg sampling. Also, includes papers by Murphy titled "Oceanography and Variations in the Pacific Sardine Population" and "The Effect of Mixing Depth and Turbidity on the Productivity of Fresh Water Impoundments."
Box 2, Folder 7

Olivieri, Joseph L. 1968

Box 2, Folder 8-9

Radovich, John 1960-1966

General note

Includes California Department of Fish and Game reports.
Box 2, Folder 10

Ramster, John W. 1970

Box 2, Folder 11

Roedel, Philip M. 1966-1969

General note

Includes correspondence regarding the Marine Research Committee.
Box 2, Folder 12

Sargent, Marston C. 1971

General note

Includes Department of Fish and Game expenditures for Marine Research Committee.
Box 2, Folder 13

Schmitt, Walter 1981-1983

General note

Includes correspondence regarding proposal to the State Water Resources Control Board and CalCOFI research.
Box 2, Folder 14-30

Schwartzlose, Richard A. 1957-1983

General note

Includes correspondence regarding ocean temperatures, drift bottle project, ship schedule requests, and the sale of the R/V Horizon. Also, includes research notes and draft report titled "Free vehicles and their instrument findings."
Box 2, Folder 31

Sette, O.E. 1957-1965

General note

Includes correspondence between US Department of Interior and CalCOFI regarding SIO symposium on meteorological and oceanographic changes.
Box 2, Folder 32

Venrick, Elizabeth L. 1973-1985

General note

Includes correspondence regarding Scientific Committee of Ocean Research (SCOR) meeting in Oslo, Norway.
 

CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE OCEANIC FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS (CalCOFI)

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE OCEANIC FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS (CalCOFI): Includes founding documents, committee and conference materials, and reports. For cruise related reports, also see Data Collection and Processing Group (DCPG) in the SUBJECT FILES series.
Arranged chronologically, with reports and publications grouped together.
Box 2, Folder 33-35

Founding documents and notes on history of program 1947-1970

General note

Includes correspondence, meeting minutes and notes, funding and budgets, reports, Sardine Research Committee, and Marine Research Committee materials. Correspondents include: W.M. Chapman, John D. Isaacs, Robert G. Sproul, and Harald U. Sverdrup.
Box 2, Folder 36-37

CalCOFI Committee - Correspondence, meeting minutes, and supplementary materials 1951-1973

Box 3, Folder 1-4

CalCOFI Committee - Correspondence, meeting minutes, and supplementary materials 1973-1986

Box 3, Folder 5-24

CalCOFI Conferences - Correspondence, abstracts, reports, and transcripts 1961-1977

Box 3, Folder 25-26

CalCOFI Conferences - Contributions from the Instituto del Mar del Peru 1964

Box 3, Folder 27

Hopkins Marine Station 1966-1970

Box 3, Folder 28

Ship operations schedule 1968-1971

General note

Includes preliminary cruise report.
 

Reports and publications

Box 3, Folder 29

Schwartzlose, Richard A. Some aspects of stagnation in the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations 1955

Box 3, Folder 30

CalCOFI preliminary cruise reports 1955-1986

General note

Includes cruises: 7412G, 7503G, 7510G, and 8609.
Box 3, Folder 31

1957: The year of warm water and southern fish 1957 December 19

Box 3, Folder 32

Murphy, Garth I. Working paper for review of CalCOFI program - Draft 1959 May

Box 3, Folder 33-34

CalCOFI program progress reports 1960-1963

General note

Includes multiple drafts.
Box 3, Folder 35

Review of the Pelagic wet fisheries during the 1959-60 season ca. 1960

Box 3, Folder 36

Prospectus for an expanded CalCOFI research program 1961 June

Box 3, Folder 37

A program for developing a hake fishery off California 1961 July 3

Box 3, Folder 38

CalCOFI Committee reports 1961-1970

General note

Includes comments by John D. Isaacs.
Box 3, Folder 39

CalCOFI Committee reports - Review of activities 1962-1968

Box 3, Folder 40

Review of the Pelagic wet fisheries during the 1961-62 and 1962-63 seasons ca. 1963

Box 3, Folder 41

Review of the Pelagic wet fisheries for the 1963-64, 1964-65,1965-66 seasons ca. 1966

Box 3, Folder 42

Soutar, Andrew. The accumulation of fish debris in certain California coastal sediments 1967 February 6

Box 3, Folder 43

Report on the anchovy fishery 1967 July

Box 3, Folder 44

California Department of Fish and Game. Charts and graphs pertaining to the anchovy resource 1967 July

General note

Compiled by Pelagic Fish Program, Marine Resource Operations.
Box 3, Folder 45

Partial review and proposed program in fisheries research 1967 September

Box 3, Folder 46

Department of Fish and Game research in relation to the June, 1961 "Prospectus for an expanded CalCOFI research program" 1967 September 19

Box 3, Folder 47

Report to the California Legislature, Pelagic fisheries northern anchovy ( Engraulis mordax) 1969

Box 3, Folder 48

The status of the fishery resources of the California current ca. 1969

Box 3, Folder 49

CalCOFI atlases - Correspondence, proposal, figures, and list 1974-1976

Box 3, Folder 50-51

National Marine Fisheries Service preliminary reports and announcements 1974-1979

General note

Includes cruises: 7412-J, 7502-03-J (S), 7510-J, J7612 (107), J-76-96 (105), DS-77-01 (108), TC-77-01, 265, 328, 329, 7702 (109), 7703, 111, 7705 (111), DS77-05 (112), 7705-J, DS-77-06 (113), DS-77-06 (113), 7712, 7801, 7803, 7804, ds-78-06 (119), 7808, 428, and 7901. Also includes report on gear research.
Box 3, Folder 52

List of reports and publications 1976-1980

 

SUBJECT FILES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) SUBJECT FILES: Files on a wide variety of topics; including equipment and instrument development, research cruises and expeditions, notes and data, and ship management. Of particular note are materials from the Antipode Expedition, North Pacific Study (NPS), and the North Pacific Experiment (Norpax). In addition, the Data Collection and Processing Group (DCPG) files contain data from various cruises and expeditions. Arranged alphabetically.
Box 4, Folder 1

Acronyms list undated

 

Antipode Expedition - Coelacanth Cruise

Box 4, Folder 2

Bibliography - A collection of literature on Latimeria chalumnae 1970

General note

Compiled by Drusilla Eaton Binney.
Box 4, Folder 3-4

Correspondence 1969-1973

General note

Includes diary entry by G.R. Forster on his visit to the Comoro Islands in 1970.
Box 4, Folder 5

Data and publicity on captures 1970-1975

General note

Includes newspaper clippings and invitation to coelacanth exhibit at Scripps Aquarium-Museum.
Box 4, Folder 6

Deep sea photographs ca. 1971

Box 4, Folder 7

Dispatches 1971

Box 4, Folder 8

Hypothesis and notes about coelacanths 1971

Box 4, Folder 9

Log, notes, and data 1971

Box 4, Folder 10

National Geographic Society proposal 1970

General note

UCSD 3726.
Box 4, Folder 11

Report 1971 April 27

Box 4, Folder 12

Travel - Correspondence and schedules 1970-1971

Box 4, Folder 13-15

Beach survey 1958-1959

Box 4, Folder 16

Bureau of Commercial Fisheries 1964-1968

General note

Includes correspondence regarding contract, as well as memorandum of agreement with UC San Diego.
Oversize FB-560, Folder 4

Bureau of Commercial Fisheries educational aid poster, number 2 - Conservation has gone to sea ca. 1965-1970

 

Cape Colnett, Baja California

Box 4, Folder 17

Camera log compiled by J. Lawson 1964

Box 4, Folder 18-19

Data, figures, and proposal 1961-1965

Box 4, Folder 20

Reports and figures 1960-1964

General note

Includes "Near-bottom sound scatters off Cape Colnett, Mexico" by Isaacs and Schwartzlose, as well as "Accumulations of organisms in the ocean" by Isaacs, Schwartzlose, and Brown.
Box 4, Folder 21

Richard A. Schwartzlose - Notes and data on scattering layer off Cape Colnett, Baja California 1964 November 16-25

Box 4, Folder 22

San Isidro Sea Ride Survey - Notes and data 1964 November 16-25

Box 4, Folder 23

Underwater images - Photographs and slides 1964

 

Data Collection and Processing Group (DCPG)

Box 4, Folder 24-41

Correspondence 1954-1977

General note

Includes correspondence regarding drift bottle reports and CalCOFI atlases.
Box 4, Folder 42-44

Cruise reports 1972-1978

General note

Reports from CalCOFI cruises, C-bog Expedition, Indopac Expedition, Southtow Expedition, Tasaday Expedition, and Study of Flushing (SOF).
Box 5, Folder 1

Quarterly reports of data 1973-1974

Box 5, Folder 2

Review of DCPG 1973

Box 5, Folder 3

Deep current meter and photograph project - Correspondence, notes, data, figures and drawings, and proposal 1966-1967

General note

Includes materials related to the monster camera and free vehicles.
Box 5, Folder 4-9

Deep Moored Instrument Station - Correspondence, data, and reports 1954-1971

General note

Includes reports from North Pacific Study, cruises 1-12.
Box 5, Folder 10

Equipment development 1958

General note

Includes high entry net and Pelagic fish net.
Box 5, Folder 11

Evening Outlook - Pacific Ocean's changes series 1958

General note

Includes draft of article by R.D. Funk and correspondence from Funk to John D. Isaacs. Article written in relation to the Rancho Santa Fe symposium - 1957-1958 the Years of Change.
Box 5, Folder 12

Free vehicles 1965

General note

Includes instruction manual for recovery gun, free vehicle design and release descriptions, and report.
Box 5, Folder 13

Hake 1958-1961

Box 5, Folder 14

Instrument Development Group 1967

General note

Includes correspondence on the reorganization of the Instrument Development Group, progress report, and instrument designs.
Box 5, Folder 15-17

Marine Life Research Biomass Laboratory - Space planning, procedures, and research 1962-1974

General note

Includes reports by Julian K. Miller: A study of a taxonomic classification of marine plankton by analysis of consistent trace elements and the possible ecological functions of variable trace elements | Biomass determinations of selected zooplankton found in the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) | Considerations relating to harvesting of zooplankton in the Gulf of California. Also, includes report by Isaacs, Fleminger, and Miller: Biomass atlas of zooplankton in the California current region.
Box 5, Folder 18

Marine Life Research Group history - Founding documents, notes, and reports 1948-1979

Box 5, Folder 19-20

Marine Life Research Group history - Oversight 1958-1985

Box 5, Folder 21

Marquardt - Notes on physical and biological oceanography ca. 1940-1948

Box 5, Folder 22-23

Monster camera - Photographs and negatives 1965-1967

Box 5, Folder 24-28

Monthly cruise schedules 1950-1959

General note

Includes charts.
Box 5, Folder 29

Monthly mean of temperatures, San Diego, California undated

 

North Pacific Experiment (Norpax)

Box 5, Folder 30-33

North Pacific Experiment (Norpax) - Correspondence, planning meetings, proposal, and report 1964-1973

Box 5, Folder 34-35

Rainbow notebook 1970-1972

General note

Includes correspondence with international collaborators and institutions, budgets, and notes by Richard A. Schwartzlose.
Box 6, Folder 1-2

Volume I: Program summary and general proposal 1973

Box 6, Folder 3-5

Volume II: Scripps Institution of Oceanography individual proposals 1973

Box 6, Folder 6

Volume III: Coordinated budget 1973

Box 6, Folder 7

North Pacific Ocean Project - Correspondence with the United States Coast Guard 1967-1968

 

North Pacific Study (NPS)

Box 6, Folder 8

Budgets 1967

Box 6, Folder 9

Cable 1966-1967

Box 6, Folder 10

Convair Division of General Dynamics - Buoy tests 1967-1969

General note

Includes photographs.
Box 6, Folder 11

Correspondence 1965-1970

Box 6, Folder 12

Current meter and measurements 1967

Box 6, Folder 13

Data distribution 1968-1969

General note

Includes list of Bumblebee Buoys.
Box 6, Folder 14

Environmental Sciences Service Administration (ESSA) participation - Correspondence 1967-1968

Box 6, Folder 15

Gilmartin, Malvern - Correspondence 1967

Box 6, Folder 16

Interrogation, Recording, and Location System (IRLS) - Correspondence 1967

Box 6, Folder 17

National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) 1967-1970

Box 6, Folder 18

National Science Foundation (NSF) - Grant 1971

Box 6, Folder 19

Nichols, R.H. - Correspondence 1967-1968

Box 6, Folder 20-23

North Pacific Study (NPS) - General 1966-1968

General note

Includes correspondence, notes, instrument designs, and proposal.
Box 6, Folder 24

Office of Naval Research (ONR) - Correspondence 1966-1971

General note

Includes "The objectives and approaches of the North Pacific Project," as well as project updates and budgets.
Box 6, Folder 25

Pacific Marine Center - Correspondence 1967

Box 6, Folder 26

Parka Expedition 1968-1969

Box 6, Folder 27

Photographs and figures ca. 1965-1971

General note

Includes images of buoys.
Box 6, Folder 28

Press releases and newspaper clippings 1967-1970

Box 6, Folder 29

Publications list 1967

Box 6, Folder 30

Trip notes 1967 April

Box 6, Folder 31

United States Coast Guard - Correspondence 1967-1970

Box 6, Folder 32

United States Coast Guard 11th and 12th District - Correspondence 1967-1970

Box 6, Folder 33

United States Coast Guard Western Area, San Francisco - Correspondence 1966-1970

Box 6, Folder 34

U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical Weather Facility 1966-1968

Box 6, Folder 35

U.S. Navy Oceanographic Office 1967

Box 6, Folder 36

U.S. Naval Weather Service 1967

Box 6, Folder 37

USCGC Acushnet (WMEC-167) - Correspondence and photograph 1968-1971

Box 6, Folder 38

USCGC Burton Island - Correspondence and cruise reports 1967

Box 6, Folder 39

USCGC Taney (WHEC-37) - Report of mooring 1968

Box 6, Folder 40

USCGC Wachusett (WHEC-44) - Correspondence 1967

Box 6, Folder 41

USS Baya - Correspondence 1969 July-August

Box 6, Folder 42

Visitors 1967-1968

Box 6, Folder 43

Notes for Staff Council talk 1969 May

General note

Likely written by John D. Isaacs.
Box 6, Folder 44

Ocean temperatures - Correspondence, data, and newspaper clippings 1957-1958

General note

Includes data on pervious years.
Box 6, Folder 45

Pacific Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (POFI) - Organizational charts 1956 February

Box 6, Folder 46

Radio facilities 1967-1968

General note

Includes extracts from "Final acts of the World Administrative Radio Conference to deal with matters relating to the Maritime Mobile Service, Geneva, 1967." Also includes memorandum on the improvement of radio facilities at SIO.
Box 6, Folder 47

Schwartzlose, Richard A. - Research notes 1957-1966

 

Ship conversions

Box 6, Folder 48-49

Correspondence 1961-1966

Box 6, Folder 50

Notes and drawings undated

Box 6, Folder 51

Phase II conversion of R/V Alexander Agassiz - Proposal for design services 1967 September 7

Box 6, Folder 52

R/V Argo modifications 1965-1966

Box 6, Folder 53-55

Specification for the conversion of R/V Alexander Agassiz for deep ocean coring 1966

General note

Includes addendums I and II.
Box 6, Folder 56

Ship dispatches 1971-1972

General note

Includes materials related to buoys and the North Pacific Study (NPS).
Box 6, Folder 57

Ship funds 1965-1978

General note

Includes materials regarding MLRG funding and grants.
Box 6, Folder 58

Ship sale - R/V Horizon 1967-1968

Box 6, Folder 59

Styx Expedition, R/V Agassiz - Correspondence, notes, research proposal, and announcements 1968

Box 6, Folder 60

Syntactic foam buoys 1966-1968

Box 6, Folder 61

Thomas A. Manar - Publications survey of temperatures and environments in the Pacific Ocean 1958

Box 6, Folder 62

United States Fish and Wildlife Service - Correspondence, contract proposal, and meetings 1948-1950

General note

Includes data on zooplankton collected during cruises XI through XVIII of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI).
 

PROPOSALS AND REPORTS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) PROPOSALS AND REPORTS: Includes drafts and supporting materials. Of particular note are proposals for the North Pacific Study (NPS) and the North Pacific Experiment (Norpax).
Arranged chronologically within two subseries: A) Proposals and B) Reports.
 

Proposals

 

United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

Box 7, Folder 1

An exploration of the deep sea floor and deep water conditions off California 1959 June 2

Box 7, Folder 2

Pacific missile range (PMR) 1963

Box 7, Folder 3

Research into the deep waters of the eastern North Pacific 1963

General note

UCSD 1040.
Box 7, Folder 4

Environmental studies in vicinity of Point Arguello 1963

General note

UCSD 1226.
Box 7, Folder 5

Research into the neat bottom waters off Southern and Central California 1963

General note

UCSD 1327.
Box 7, Folder 6

Resurvey of Bikini area 1964

General note

UCSD 1384.
Box 7, Folder 7-8

Contracts and patents - Correspondence 1964-1974

Box 7, Folder 9

A study of deep circulation and other factors in the waters of the Pacific Ocean 1966

General note

UCSD 1765.
Box 7, Folder 10-12

A study of the deep circulation and deep fish populations in the Pacific Ocean 1966-1969

General note

AEC contract AT(11-1)-34, Project 127. UCSD 1765, 1850, 2082, 2479, and 2884.
Box 7, Folder 13

Deep circulation and fish populations 1969

General note

UCSD 2884.
Box 7, Folder 14

Enhancement of productivity by upwelling 1969

General note

UCSD 2963.
Box 7, Folder 15

Deep circulation and fish populations 1970

General note

UCSD 3469.
Box 7, Folder 16-17

Photographic study of deep animals 1971-1972

General note

UCSD 4468 AND 5498.
Box 7, Folder 18

A photographic study of deep near-bottom animal populations 1971-1976

General note

AEC contract AT(04-3)-34, Project 127. UCSD 4468.
Box 7, Folder 19

California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) joint proposal - Design of thermal outfall systems for the ocean 1973

Box 7, Folder 20

Research on the marine food chain 1974

General note

UCSD 0045.
 

National Science Foundation (NSF)

Box 7, Folder 21

Publication of a manuscript "Physical Oceanography of South East Asian Waters" by Laus Wyrtki 1960 November 15

Box 7, Folder 22

Computation of seasonal variation in sea temperature from incomplete time series using IBM computer 1961 March 30

General note

UCSD 947.
Box 7, Folder 23

Continuation of research of the California current system 1961

General note

UCSD 941.
Box 7, Folder 24-25

Development of inexpensive deep-sea free vehicles and instruments 1962-1964

General note

UCSD 1127 and 1291.
Box 7, Folder 26

Study of Marine halophytes and their use in agricultural regions of highly saline soils - Handwritten draft 1963

Box 7, Folder 27

Historical study of the Eastern North Pacific 1964

General note

UCSD 1290.
Box 7, Folder 28

A continuation of studies on the taxonomy, zoogeography, and ecology of Pacific zooplankton 1964

General note

UCSD 1335.
Box 7, Folder 29

Partial support (ship time, etc.) of biological work at sea 1964

General note

UCSD 1341.
Box 7, Folder 30

Autonomous deep ocean video camera ca. 1964-1966

Box 7, Folder 31

Deep life support fish traps ca. 1964-1966

Box 7, Folder 32

Modification of the R/V Agassiz to expand and improve laboratories for marine life research at sea 1965

General note

UCSD 1567.
Box 7, Folder 33

Development of deep-sea autonomous vehicles 1965-1966

General note

UCSD 1489.
Box 7, Folder 34

A study of postpleistocene oceanography and biology of the North Pacific 1965-1966

General note

UCSD 1514.
Box 7, Folder 35

Modification of the R/V Alexander Agassiz 1966

General note

UCSD 1736.
Box 7, Folder 36

Heat exchange at the sea surface 1966

General note

UCSD 1746.
Box 7, Folder 37

South Pacific oceanography investigation 1966

General note

UCSD 1850.
Box 7, Folder 38

Deep flow water characteristics, topography, and sediments in the Central Pacific area 1967

General note

UCSD 2100.
Box 7, Folder 39

Micropaleontology of anaerobic sediments 1968

General note

UCSD 2473.
Box 7, Folder 40

A study of deep circulation and deep fish populations in the Pacific Ocean 1968

General note

UCSD 2479.
Box 7, Folder 41

Flow through the limestone basement of an atoll 1968

General note

UCSD 2567.
Box 7, Folder 42

Deep sea autonomous vehicles, instruments, basic control devices, and special collecting gear 1968

General note

UCSD 2570.
Box 7, Folder 43

Distribution and biology of Pacific zooplankton 1968

General note

UCSD 2624.
Box 7, Folder 44

Funding correspondence 1968-1973

Box 7, Folder 45

Recent micropaleontology and paleoecology of anaerobic sediments 1970

General note

UCSD 3775.
Box 7, Folder 46-51

National Science Foundation (NSF) and International Decade of Ocean Exploration (IDOE) - Large-scale ocean and atmosphere interrelationships in the Pacific 1970-1972

General note

UCSD 4813. Includes proposal compiled by SIO and other institutions.
Box 7, Folder 52

The biology and distribution of the ocean-striders (Halobates - Heteroptera: Gerridae) 1972

General note

UCSD 4723.
Box 7, Folder 53

Design and acquisition of a new oceanographic vessel 1972

General note

UCSD 4806.
Box 7, Folder 54-56

Anaerobic sediments: Studies in recent paleoecology and paleoclimatology 1973-1976

General note

UCSD 5980, 0144, and 0492.
Box 7, Folder 57

Current measurements in the deep passage through the Rio Grande Rise - Southwest Atlantic Ocean 1974

General note

UCSD 6419.
Box 7, Folder 58

Systematic, biogeographic, and character divergence studies of epiplanktonic populations of Calanoid copepods 1974

General note

UCSD 6470.
Box 7, Folder 59

Proposed program in fisheries research and preliminary statement to the Marine Life Research Committee 1961 January 4

Box 7, Folder 60

Preliminary statement of the nature of a proposal for continuation of research surveys of the California current system 1961 February 17

Box 7, Folder 61

Proposal to reconstruct the recent physical history of the West Coast 1961 May 29

General note

Includes notes by John D. Isaacs.
Box 7, Folder 62

Marine Life Research - Pelagic fish studies 1962 March 19

Box 7, Folder 63

Gibbs, Ronald J. Effects of rivers on the ocean ca. 1962-1964

Box 7, Folder 64

Tentative proposal for deep moored instrument station 1963

Box 7, Folder 65

Memo of proposal: Beach survey 1963

Box 7, Folder 66

Bureau of Commercial Fisheries - Deep moored instrument stations 1963

General note

UCSD 1160.
 

Office of Naval Research (ONR)

Box 7, Folder 67

Accumulations of organisms in the ocean (Isaacs, Schwartzlose and Brown) 1962

Box 7, Folder 68

Long range oceanography research 1963

General note

UCSD 1215.
Box 7, Folder 69

General oceanography 1964

General note

UCSD 1373.
Box 7, Folder 70-71

A study of the boundary currents of the Eastern Pacific 1965-1966

General note

UCSD 1646. Includes reports and committee materials.
Box 7, Folder 72

General oceanography research 1966

General note

UCSD 1925 and 1775.
Box 7, Folder 73-75

A study of causes of physical changes in the upper layers of the North Pacific Ocean 1967-1969

General note

UCSD 2217, 2619, and 3113.
Box 8, Folder 1-4

North Pacific Study supplementary funding 1968-1971

General note

UCSD 3062, 3456, 3639, and 4125.
Box 8, Folder 5-7

The North Pacific Study 1970-1971

General note

UCSD 3833, 4545, 4545A, and 5218.
Box 8, Folder 8

Central Gyre Research Program 1973

General note

UCSD 6021.
Box 8, Folder 9

North Pacific Experiment 1973

General note

UCSD 6238.
Box 8, Folder 10

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - Voyager Mission: Orbiter examination of Martian surfaces for evidence of vegetation, slopes, stability, and reflectors 1965

Box 8, Folder 11-13

International Pacific Air-Sea Studies (IPASS) 1969-1970

Box 8, Folder 14

Science Applications Incorporated - Proposal for collection and analysis of trace metals and hydrocarbons in three cores at precisely dated intervals 1976

General note

UCSD 0270.
Box 8, Folder 15

Science Applications Incorporated - Proposal for construction of two open-vented aluminum box coring units, training, limited maintenance and supervision in regards to bottom sediments sampling chemistry 1976

General note

UCSD 0267.
 

Reports

Box 8, Folder 16

Research and publications list 1947-1971

Box 8, Folder 17

Mann, H.J. Proposed program: Marine Technical Services 1949

General note

Includes correspondence.
Box 8, Folder 18-20

Marine Life Research Program progress reports 1949-1950

Box 8, Folder 21-23

Sardine Research Program progress reports 1949-1951

General note

Includes reports from CalCOFI.
Box 8, Folder 24

Ahlstrom, Elbert H. A report on the problems and objectives of the Cooperative Sardine Research Program ca. 1949-1951

Box 8, Folder 25

Development of new equipment ca. 1949-1951

Box 8, Folder 26

Isaacs, Marr, and Wooster. Report of Marine Life Research Subcommittee 1956-1957

Box 8, Folder 27

Untitled report on the availability of sardines and research approaches ca. 1956-1966

Box 8, Folder 28

California Department of Fish and Game. Reorganization of Marine Resources 1957 December 9

Box 8, Folder 29

Report of the Special Technical Committee to the Marine Research Committee 1957 December 16

Box 8, Folder 30

The influence on the West Coast fisheries through the action of man ca. 1957

Box 8, Folder 31

Marine life special projects report 1958 October 10

Box 8, Folder 32

Deep free vehicle progress report 1959 November 17

Box 8, Folder 33

Schick, George B. Self reeling sub-surface float 1960 July 7

Box 8, Folder 34

Clutter, Robert I. Progress report on study of nearshore Mysidacea 1960 December 9

Box 8, Folder 35

Impulsively generated waves - Interim progress report ca. 1960

Box 8, Folder 36

Deep anchored instrument stations: Quarter ending 31 December 1961 1962 March 7

Box 8, Folder 37

Isaacs and Schwartzlose. Accumulations of organisms 1962 May 2

Box 8, Folder 38

Klein, Hans. Data Collection and Processing Group (DCPG) 1962 May 2

Box 8, Folder 39

Isaacs, Schick, and Holt. Buoy project 1962 May 2

Box 8, Folder 40

Reid, Joseph Lee. Status and progress report under ONR and MLR contracts 1962 May 2-24

Box 8, Folder 41

Disappearance of the California sardine nears solution 1962 December 14

Box 8, Folder 42

Brown, Daniel. Instrument development reports 1962-1963

Box 8, Folder 43

Folsom, Schwartzlose, and Jennings. Scale errors on oceanographic mercurial thermometers 1962-1963

Box 8, Folder 44-52

Marine Life Research Group annual reports 1962-1980

General note

Includes photographs.
Box 8, Folder 53

Brown, Daniel. Ocean current measurements with the parachute drogue 1963 March 25

Box 8, Folder 54

Deep moored instrument station reports 1963 June 24

Box 8, Folder 55

Isaacs, Schwartzlose, and Brown. Accumulations of organisms in the ocean ca. 1963-1964

Box 8, Folder 56

Snodgrass, James M. Oceanographic instrumentation ca. 1963-1964

Box 8, Folder 57

Bradner et al. Directional record of swell from distant storms and swell attenuation study ca. 1963-1964

Box 8, Folder 58

Menard and Smith. Sea floor topography ca. 1963-1964

Box 8, Folder 59

Development of inexpensive deep-sea free devices 1964 January 13

Box 8, Folder 60

Historical study of the Eastern North Pacific 1964 June-1965 August

General note

NSF grant no. GP 3254.
 

United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) reports

Box 8, Folder 61

Research into the deep waters of the Eastern North Pacific 1964 June 10

General note

UCSD 34P-97-1.
Box 8, Folder 62

Isaacs et al. Research into the near-bottom waters and other studies off Southern California 1966 May 16

General note

AEC contract AT(11-1)-34, Project 127-1. UCSD 34P-127-1.
Box 8, Folder 63-64

Isaacs and Schwartzlose. A study of the deep circulation and deep fish populations in the Pacific Ocean 1967 May 9-1968 April 24

General note

Annual report. AEC contract AT(11-1)-34, Project 127-1. UCSD 34P-127-2 and 34P-127-3.
Box 8, Folder 65-67

Isaacs and Schwartzlose. A continued study of the deep circulation and deep fish populations in the Pacific Ocean 1969-1972

General note

1969 February 24. AEC contract AT(11-1)-34, Project 127-1. UCSD 34P-127-5. | 1970 May 4. AEC contract AT(11-1)-34, Project 127-1. UCSD 34P-127-7. | 1972 September 11. AEC contract AT(11-1)-34, Project 127-1. UCSD 34P-127-13.
Box 8, Folder 68

Isaacs and Schwartzlose. Near-bottom animal population and related deep circulation in the ocean: Review of the last 3 years 1971 August 1

General note

AEC contract AT(04-3)-34, Project 127. UCSD 34P-127-12.
Box 8, Folder 69

Summary of recent developments: Free vehicle current meter project 1964 August 17

Box 8, Folder 70

Ocean technology section project review 1964 September 16

Box 8, Folder 71

Report to Gerald V. Howard regarding moorings 1964 October 28

Box 8, Folder 72

El Golfo drogue survey report 1964 November 16

Box 8, Folder 73

Bongo net: Brown, McGowan opening and closing net 1964 November 20

Box 8, Folder 74

Advanced sea-based deterrent long-range environmental research reports 1965 January

General note

Includes "Distribution of biological material in the sea" and "Deep-moored instrument stations."
Box 8, Folder 75-76

Development of inexpensive deep-sea free vehicles and instruments - Final report 1965 November 3-4

General note

NSF grant no. 1212 and GP3349.
 

Office of Naval Research (ONR) reports

Box 9, Folder 1

Untitled draft 1965

Box 9, Folder 2

Composition and permeability of a coral reef, Eniwetok, Marshall Islands 1968

Box 9, Folder 3

Physical oceanography: The nature of a physical change in the upper layers of the North Pacific Ocean 1968

Box 9, Folder 4

Brown, Daniel. General weather and sea conditions off the Baja California and Southern California Coasts: A guide to small craft operations 1966 May 12

Box 9, Folder 5

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reports 1967

General note

Includes: Temperature tuna forecast for 1967 and Albacore season - 1967 operations.
Box 9, Folder 6

Inventory and resource plans 1969

General note

Includes squids, Pacific saury, jack mackerel, Pacific hake, and Pacific sardine.
Box 9, Folder 7

Evaluation of some unutilized resources ca. 1969

Box 9, Folder 8

Muss, David. Recommendations for improvements in North Pacific Studies operations 1970

Box 9, Folder 9

Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) annual report - Marine Life Research Group contributions 1972

 

COMMITTEES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) COMMITTEES: Includes correspondence, notes, meeting minutes, and reports. Of particular note are materials from the California Marine Research Committee (MRC). Arranged chronologically.
 

California Marine Research Committee (MRC)

Box 9, Folder 10-11

Interim progress reports 1950-1958

General note

Includes correspondence.
Box 9, Folder 12

Special Technical Committee 1957

General note

Includes correspondence, proposal, and report.
Box 9, Folder 13-15

Correspondence 1957-1975

General note

Includes proposals and agreements with the California Department of Fish and Game.
Box 9, Folder 16-19

Meetings 1957-1975

General note

Includes announcements, agendas and minutes, materials reviewed by committee, and notes.
Box 9, Folder 20

Meetings - Selected documents 1959-1970

Box 9, Folder 21

Proposals 1958-1974

General note

Includes: Establishment of a scientific data processing unit at the California State Fisheries Laboratory | Research needs statements | Proposal to reconstruct the recent physical history of the West Coast | Continuation of research of the California current system | Estimate of anchovy biomass in 1965, 1966, and 1969 directly through egg census | Verification of sonar-derived estimates of fish school biomass and species with chartered purse seiners | Production of a nutritious microencapsulated food for marine fish larvae (UCSD 4764) | Sorting CalCOFI plankton samples for fish eggs and larvae (UCSD 6732).
Box 9, Folder 22

Notes by John D. Isaacs 1959-1971

Box 9, Folder 23

Isaacs, John D. Remarks on the Marine Life Research Program to the Marine Research Committee 1962 June

Box 9, Folder 24

Isaacs, John D. Status report on the Institute of Marine Resources to the Marine Research Committee 1962 June 21

Box 9, Folder 25-26

Marine Life Research Advisory Panel - Meeting agendas and minutes 1958-1966

General note

Includes mateirals related to Advisory Panel Working Group.
Box 9, Folder 27-28

Assembly Interim Committee on Fish and Game - Correspondence and meeting agenda 1958-1970

General note

Includes copies of legislative bills discussed by the committee.
Box 9, Folder 29-32

Marine Operations Committee - Correspondence, notes, meeting minutes, and reports 1960-1968

General note

Includes Research Vessel Operators' Council transactions report.
Box 9, Folder 33

Air-Sea Interaction Advisory Group - Correspondence, notes, and meeting agendas 1967-1969

General note

Includes materials related to the conference on the "Plan for U.S. Participation in the Global Atmospheric Research Program."
 

CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS: Includes correspondence, agendas, works presented, and reports. Arranged chronologically.
Box 9, Folder 34

Sardine Conference 1952-1959

General note

Includes report on the 1952 conference.
Box 9, Folder 35-39

Rancho Santa Fe symposium: 1957-1958 the Years of Change 1957-1961

General note

Symposium on the meteorological, oceanographic, and biological changes in the Pacific Ocean. Includes correspondence, agenda, notes and handout by Jerome Namias, report to the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography, summary of the symposium, and materials regarding the Meterographic Study Group.
Box 9, Folder 40-42

Eastern Pacific Oceanic Conference (EPOC) - Correspondence, meeting minutes, and report 1957-1973

General note

Includes materials from the Committee on Unmanned Instrument Stations.
Box 9, Folder 43

Marine Life Research seminars 1958

Box 9, Folder 44

World Scientific Meeting on the Biology of Sardines and Related Species 1958-1959

General note

Includes correspondence, draft of prospectus, and paper by Maurice Blackburn titled "Synopsis of biological information on the Australian and New Zealand sardine, Sardinops neopilchardus (Steindachner)."
Box 9, Folder 45

Pacific Tuna Conferences - Correspondence, agendas, and proceedings 1958-1971

Box 9, Folder 46

Meeting of the U.S. - Mexican scientists to discuss Pacific mackerel problems 1968 December 10

Box 9, Folder 47

U.S. - Mexico fisheries meeting 1969 July 24