UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

North Pacific Ocean : Marshall Islands

Telephone conversation with Marston Sargent, Jeff Holter and Roger Revelle

Loading explosives into [Taiwanese research vessel] Chiu Lien, Guam. Dr. Lu on van

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

Remants of the local bowling alley called the Bowling Palace, after a tsunami hit Hilo, Hawaii, on the Big Island. April 4, 1946

Microbiologist Richard Y. Morita who served on the MidPac Expedition (1950), took this photo of a view overlook stop in, Hawaii, Honolulu, during a break from the expedition. 1950