A Guide to the John I. Ewing Papers, (1955, 1970), 1977-1982, (1989)
Manuscript Collection MC-23
1 box (1 lin. ft.)
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution A Guide to the John I. Ewing Papers, (1955, 1970), 1977-1982, (1989) Manuscript Collection MC-23 1 box (1 lin. ft.) |
John I. Ewing is a geophysicist who was Chairman of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at WHOI. Ewing graduated from Harvard in 1950 with a bachelor of science degree in physics. He was at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University following his graduation from Harvard, and was Associate Director and Adjunct Professor of Geology at Columbia from 1973 until his appointment as Chairman of the Department of Geology and Geophysics at WHOI in 1976. Ewing had worked at Woods Hole before and during his undergraduate days, and continued his association with WHOI scientists, serving as chief scientist on various cruises of research vessels Atlantis, Balanus, Caryn, and Crawford.
Ewing served on the advisory and planning committees of several large oceanographic projects including the Planning Committee and the Atlantic and Pacific Advisory Panels of JOIDES (Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling). He was also a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Decade of Oceanographic Exploration of the National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography, and the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Seismology.
[Information taken from Press Release of January 7, 1976.]
Project ROSE was a large-scale multi-seismic experiment designed to study in detail the seismic structure of an ocean spreading center and fracture zone, and to observe how that structure changes with age. Besides WHOI, other participating institutions included UNAM, University of Washington, Scripps, OSU, Lamont, University of Wisconsin, University of Texas, University of California, Entre Oceanologique De Bretagne, and the Naval Oceanographic Office. The LASE project was a cooperative effort by Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, WHOI, and the Marine Science Institute of University of Texas. The principal objective was to test the performance of a long towed hydrophone array for studying the structure of continental margins.
The papers pertain chiefly to Ewing's involvement with two specific projects: the Rivera Ocean Seismic Experiment (ROSE), and the Large Aperture Seismic Experiment (LASE). There are also two folders containing correspondence, including a letter from Ewing to Allyn Vine describing his first months in Woods Hole.
Materials contain correspondence, notes and memoranda, logs, cruise prospectus and reports, data, newspaper clippings, schedules and plans, proposals, telegrams, and reprints.
Ewing weeded his files prior to donating the project materials to the Archives.
John I. Ewing Papers, (1955, 1970), 1977-1982, (1989). MC-23, "Folder Name." Data Library and Archives, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
John Ewing's papers arrived in the WHOI Archives on March 18, 1999.
Materials were re-housed in acid free folders and a single box.
Open: materials are available for research.
Copyright: Permission to publish material from the collection must be authorized by the Institution Archivist.
Two reports were removed and added to the document collection. They were Preliminary Report on Large Aperture Seismic Experiment (LASE) (1983), and Baltimore Canyon Trough Regional Hydrocarbon Potential.
Arranged in a single series:
| Subjects 1955-1989 1 box (1 lin. ft.) | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content Note | |||||||||||
| The papers pertain chiefly to Ewing's involvement with two specific projects: the Rivera Ocean Seismic Experiment (ROSE), and the Large Aperture Seismic Experiment (LASE). There are also two folders containing correspondence, including a letter from Ewing to Allyn Vine describing his first months in Woods Hole. | |||||||||||
| Materials contain correspondence, notes and memoranda, logs, cruise prospectus and reports, data, newspaper clippings, schedules and plans, proposals, telegrams, and reprints. The information documents Ewing's involvement with the ROSE and the LASE projects, for which Ewing served as committee chairman and principal investigator, respectively. The "Draft notes about the ROSE program" file may have been used for a talk, and another file provides information about the early stages of ROSE (ff. 5, 3). There is also material dealing with getting permission to use waters off of Mexico for the ROSE project (f. 9). | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| Materials are ordered chronologically. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence: Incomplete letter to Dr. H. Hall from A.C. Vine | February 4, 1955 | ||||||||
| 2 | Correspondence: Letter to Allyn Vine | March 19, 1989 | |||||||||
| 3 | Reports Removed | 1970, 1983, undated | |||||||||
| 4 | Rivera Ocean Seismic Experiment (ROSE) | 1977-1978 | |||||||||
| 5 | Draft notes about ROSE program | undated | |||||||||
| 6 | ROSE 1, deployment positions | undated | |||||||||
| 7 | ROSE: WHOI ocean bottom hydrophones | undated | |||||||||
| 8 | Seismic records | undated | |||||||||
| 9-11 | ROSE (3 ff.) | 1977-1979 | |||||||||
| 12 | ROSE: Conrad #22, leg 2, nav. Logs | 1979 | |||||||||
| 13 | ROSE: Phase 2, memos and data | 1979 | |||||||||
| 14 | ROSE: Operation plan for NRL cruise 79-16-01, USNS Hayes | 1979 | |||||||||
| 15 | ROSE | 1979? | |||||||||
| 16 | [Radio] log b/w ships | January 17-March 7, [1979] | |||||||||
| 17 | ROSE A: Log | January 24-March 16, 1979 | |||||||||
| 18 | ROSE 2, Earthquakes recorded at U.W. Sites 2,5 | March 1979 | |||||||||
| 19 | ROSE: July 17 discussions with Johnson, Dorman, et al. | 1979 | |||||||||
| 20 | ROSE: Letter from G. Latham re. Measure of date recovery by Texas OBS stations | July 19, 1979 | |||||||||
| 21 | ROSE/Lopez meeting at WHOI | September 14-15, 1979 | |||||||||
| 22 | ROSE 3 | 1979-1981 | |||||||||
| 23 | Large Aperture Seismic Experiment (LASE); Proposals | 1979-1981 | |||||||||
| 24-25 | LASE monitor records (2 ff.) | June 7-12, n.y. | |||||||||
| 26 | LASE monitor records | June 13-16, n.y. | |||||||||
| 27-29 | LASE | 1978-1982 | |||||||||
| 30 | LASE general operations plan and meeting notes | 1980-1981 | |||||||||