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Marge Bradner, wife to Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Hugh Bradner, she sailed and helped him with his scientific voyage. Later she would write about her experiences, titled \"Seismic Summer: the story of eleven men and one woman sailing across the South Pacific to study the quivering sea floor.\" She explained this photo as \"Oehr, The Swains plantation manager, and his family.\" Circa 1963

American Samoa

Aerial photo taken of the research ship R/V Argo (in center), while stationed in port in the Pago Pago Harbor. Pago Pago is the capital town of American Samoa. It is actually a village that is often mistaken to be a city (as in a capital or port city) of this south Pacific territory of the United States of America. The village is located on Pago Pago Harbor, in the island of Tutuila. Circa 1967

Yap (Palau?), Indopac Leg 4

Main highway, Bikini, Marshall Islands

Borrow Pit Test to water table, Bikini, Marshall Islands

New Satellite weather Antenna-Principal Electronics Technician David Havens turns the wheel which adjusts vertical angle on the new satellite weather antenna installed aboard D/V Glomar Challenger during the port call at Agana, Guam, between legs 59 and 60 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project. The big wheel at the bottom takes care of the horizonal and vertical antenna angles. Information is received from a satellite in stationary orbit and processed by shipboard equipment to produce a weather map which enables the captain, scientists and operations personnel to get weather forecasets 18 hours in advance at any drilling and core site

R/V Horizon (ship) off in the distance as seen from Eninman Island (part of the Marshall Islands) photographed by Alan C. Jones during a break from the Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953). 1952

[Field station at beach, Eninman Island,] 1952

Reef east of south end of Bikini, Marshall Islands

Scientists aboard USS Bowditch, Operation Crossroads, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, 1946

SW coast of Guam. Leg 5 Indopac