Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marine Life Research Group Records
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Descriptive Summary
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marine Life Research Group Records
Creator:
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marine Life Research Group
Identifier/Call Number: SAC 0020
Physical Description:
9 Linear feet
(9 record cartons, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1940-1990
Abstract: The Marine Life Research Group Records document Scripps Institution of Oceanography participation in California Cooperative
Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) and the resulting expanded research. Includes correspondence, research data from
cruises and expeditions, proposals and reports, committee materials, and conferences.
Languages:
English
.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Marine Life Research Group Records document Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) participation in California Cooperative
Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) and the resulting expanded research. Includes correspondence, materials from cruises
and expeditions, research data and notes, proposals and reports, committee materials, and conferences.
Arranged in six series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE OCEANIC FISHERIES INVESTIGATIONS (CalCOFI), 3) SUBJECT
FILES, 4) PROPOSALS AND REPORTS, 5) COMMITTEES, and 6) CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS.
Administrative History
The 1946-1947 fishing season marked a major decrease in the numbers of Pacific sardine (
Sardinops sagax). In January 1947, representatives from the fishing industry and scientific experts met to evaluate the problem. Within a
year, California Legislature established the Marine Research Committee (MRC); early members included Harald U. Sverdrup, Carl
L. Hubbs, Martin W. Johnson, and John D. Isaacs. Through the MRC, a statewide research project was developed called the California
Cooperative Sardine Study. By 1953, the project's name became the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations
(CalCOFI).
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) was assigned the responsibility of gathering general oceanographic data in the
sardine habitat and to study biological productivity in the Pacific Ocean. In 1948, SIO founded the Marine Life Research Group
(MLRG); also referred to as the Marine Life Research Program (MLR). The group was responsible for overseeing SIO's broad study
under the state-supported CalCOFI. Due to space issues, the MLRG was originally located in Navy buildings at Point Loma, but
was eventually moved to the SIO campus. SIO established the Data Collection and Processing Group (DCPG) to assist in processing
research data; and was assigned a radio station for the project, operated by SIO personnel. Monthly cruises began in 1949.
Over time, the Marine Life Research Group (MLRG) expanded its studies. By 1957, the group's accomplishments included: identifying
sardine migrations, behavior patterns, and four spawning areas; developing methods to estimate fish populations; defining
zooplankton areas; gathering information on anchovy, jack mackerel, Pacific mackerel, saury, and hake; new instrument designs;
and collecting data on ocean temperature, salinity, oxygen and phosphate levels.
To accommodate these expanded studies, the MLRG was re-organized and a new system for awarding contracts to special projects
was established. In addition to CalCOFI cruises, the MLRG participated in and conducted various expeditions, including the
Antipode Expedition, North Pacific Study (NPS), and the North Pacific Experiment (Norpax). The work of the Marine Life Research
Group (MLRG) was eventually moved to the Integrative Oceanography Division (IOD) at SIO.
Directors of the MLRG included: John D. Isaacs (1958-1974), Joseph L. Reid (1974-1987), and Michael M. Mullin (1988-unknown).
Preferred Citation
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marine Life Research Group Records, SAC 20. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
Library.
Acquisition Information
Acquired 1982-1995
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Publication Rights
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Related Materials
California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) Records, SAC 50. Special Collections & Archives, UC San
Diego Library.
California Marine Research Committee Records, SAC 49. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
John D. Isaacs Papers, SMC 1. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
University of California. Institute of Marine Resources Records, SAC 3. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Fishes -- Research
Marine biology -- Research
Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Marine Life Research Group -- Archives
California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (Program) -- Archives
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 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 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 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 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 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 8-9
Radovich, John
1960-1966
General note
Includes California Department of Fish and Game reports.
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.
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.
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 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
Box 4, Folder 12
Travel - Correspondence and schedules
1970-1971
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 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 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 10
Convair Division of General Dynamics - Buoy tests
1967-1969
General note
Includes photographs.
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 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 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
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.
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
Box 7, Folder 4
Environmental studies in vicinity of Point Arguello
1963
Box 7, Folder 5
Research into the neat bottom waters off Southern and Central California
1963
Box 7, Folder 6
Resurvey of Bikini area
1964
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
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
Box 7, Folder 14
Enhancement of productivity by upwelling
1969
Box 7, Folder 15
Deep circulation and fish populations
1970
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
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
Box 7, Folder 23
Continuation of research of the California current system
1961
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
Box 7, Folder 28
A continuation of studies on the taxonomy, zoogeography, and ecology of Pacific zooplankton
1964
Box 7, Folder 29
Partial support (ship time, etc.) of biological work at sea
1964
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
Box 7, Folder 33
Development of deep-sea autonomous vehicles
1965-1966
Box 7, Folder 34
A study of postpleistocene oceanography and biology of the North Pacific
1965-1966
Box 7, Folder 35
Modification of the R/V
Alexander Agassiz
1966
Box 7, Folder 36
Heat exchange at the sea surface
1966
Box 7, Folder 37
South Pacific oceanography investigation
1966
Box 7, Folder 38
Deep flow water characteristics, topography, and sediments in the Central Pacific area
1967
Box 7, Folder 39
Micropaleontology of anaerobic sediments
1968
Box 7, Folder 40
A study of deep circulation and deep fish populations in the Pacific Ocean
1968
Box 7, Folder 41
Flow through the limestone basement of an atoll
1968
Box 7, Folder 42
Deep sea autonomous vehicles, instruments, basic control devices, and special collecting gear
1968
Box 7, Folder 43
Distribution and biology of Pacific zooplankton
1968
Box 7, Folder 44
Funding correspondence
1968-1973
Box 7, Folder 45
Recent micropaleontology and paleoecology of anaerobic sediments
1970
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
Box 7, Folder 53
Design and acquisition of a new oceanographic vessel
1972
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
Box 7, Folder 58
Systematic, biogeographic, and character divergence studies of epiplanktonic populations of Calanoid copepods
1974
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
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
Box 7, Folder 69
General oceanography
1964
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
Box 8, Folder 9
North Pacific Experiment
1973
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
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
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 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