UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

South Pacific Ocean : Aneityum and Erronan Is. (New Hebrides) and neighboring islands

Francis Parker Shepard, from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, inspecting the damage to a house and scarp formation, at Kainalu, Molokai, after a tsunami. A scarp formation is displacement of the land surface by movement along the fault of an earthquake line and mass wasting caused by water runoff. April 1946

The Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography held at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From left to right are Philip F. Rehbock, professor of history at the University of Hawaii; Deborah Day, archivist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography; and Keith Benson, a professor of history from the University of Washington. July 1993

Viti Levu, waterway in Fiji, as seen from the deck of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography research vessel, R/V Spencer F. Baird, during the Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953). 1953

Certificate of Clearance

South Pacific Ocean : anchorages in the Solomon Islands

Radiolarian Skeleton - A sample of nonnofossil chalk ooze from Site 64 on Leg 7 of the deep Sea Drilling Project-Guam to Honolulu-shows a Radiolarian skeleton (large perforated sphere) surrounded by Coccoliths (small circular objects in matrix) and calcareous debris. The micrograph was made on a scanning electron microscope and was magnified 600 times. The sample was late Miocene in age and was taken from about 656 ft. (200 M) below the Pacific Ocean floor

Orchids as were seen in a greenhouse in Hawaii. This photo was taken by a member of the scientific party while taking a break during the Midpac Expedition (1950). 1950

Microbiologist Richard Y. Morita who served on the MidPac Expedition (1950), is shown here in a banyan tree in Honolulu, Hawaii, during a break from the expedition. 1950

Co-Chief Scientists for Leg 60 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project Donald Hussong (left) from the Hawaii Institute of Geophysics, and Seiya Uyeda (right) from the Earthquake Research Institute in Tokyo, Japan. They were on the deck of D/V Glomar Challenger (ship) for a discussion of findings for Leg 60, the research vessels almost 200-foot-tall drilling derrick can be seen in the background. 1978

Atomic wash down system, Horizon. Winter Horton, Darsey in foreground

Project documentation: Allan Kaprow, Anya Gallaccio, Lee Boroson, Felipe Ehrenberg, Marta Palau