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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

Oldest Pacific Seiment - Working in the scientific laboratory of the drilling research vessel, Glomar Challenger, Cruise Co-Chief Scientists Dr. Alfred G. Fischer, left, and Dr. bruce Heezen, right, study a split core of Early Mesozoic Pacific Ocean floor sediment in excess of 140 million years old. Cruise Operations Manager Dan R. bullard, Jr., of Tenneco Oil Company, is in the center. The trio directed scientific and engineering activities on Leg Six of the DSDP from Honolulu to Guam

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

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

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

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