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A Guide to the John I. Ewing Papers, (1955, 1970), 1977-1982, (1989)

Manuscript Collection MC-23
1 box (1 lin. ft.)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Biographical and Historical Information

Scope and Content Note

Administrative Information

Arrangement

Folder List


Biographical and Historical Information

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.

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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.

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Administrative Information

Custodial History

Ewing weeded his files prior to donating the project materials to the Archives.

Preferred Citation

John I. Ewing Papers, (1955, 1970), 1977-1982, (1989). MC-23, "Folder Name." Data Library and Archives, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

Acquisitions Information

John Ewing's papers arrived in the WHOI Archives on March 18, 1999.

Processing Information

Materials were re-housed in acid free folders and a single box.

Access

Open: materials are available for research.

Use

Copyright: Permission to publish material from the collection must be authorized by the Institution Archivist.

Separated Material

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.

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Arrangement

Arranged in a single series:

List of Series:
Subjects

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Folder List

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