A Guide to the Papers of Charles Davis Hollister, 1967-1998
Manuscript Collection MC-31
14 boxes (8.25 lin. ft.)
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution A Guide to the Papers of Charles Davis Hollister, 1967-1998 Manuscript Collection MC-31 14 boxes (8.25 lin. ft.) |
Charles Davis Hollister (1936-1999) joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in 1967 as an oceanographer/sedimentologist in the Department of Geology and Geophysics. His early research documented the global effects of deep ocean circulation on sediment texture and on the distribution of current controlled sediment rifts. Hollister started the development of the giant piston coring system and documented the longest continuous record of ocean basin history in a single 100-foot long core. He also made significant discoveries concerning ocean sediment transport and directed the High Energy Benthic Boundary Layer Experiment (HEBBLE). In addition, Hollister initiated the sub-seabed concept and led the international team that studied the scientific feasibility of isolating high-level radioactive material into sediments below the sea floor.
Hollister graduated from Columbia University in 1967 with a Ph.D. in geology. He served the Institution in a number of capacities both scientific and administrative. He was named Senior Scientist in 1979 and was appointed Dean of Graduate Studies for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Joint Program for the years 1979 -1989. In 1989 he accepted appointment as WHOI’s Associate Director for External Affairs and in the same year was appointed Vice President of the Corporation. He spent the later part of his career administering and fund raising for the Institution.
He was the author of numerous papers and books including Face of the Deep, 1971 and three books on sediment transport and waste disposal. He testified before several U.S. Congressional committees concerning disposal of nuclear waste. Hollister was a member of the American Geophysical Union and a fellow of the Geological Society of America, among other professional affiliations. He was also a past president of the American Alpine Club.
He died hiking on August 23, 1999, while on vacation with family members in Wyoming. He was 63 years old.
The Hollister papers dating from 1967 to 1998 consist of eleven boxes, 24 folders of photographs and three filing cabinets of ocean floor photography, a total of 5.5 linear feet.
The custodial history of the papers is undocumented.
Papers of Charles Davis Hollister, 1967-1998. MC-31, "Folder Name." Data Library and Archives, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Charles Hollister deposited several cartons of data in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Data Library and Archives (DLA) including cruise data from USS Pensacola and USS Portland as well as data from the Deep Sea Drilling Program (DDP) Leg 35. Jacqueline Hollister, his wife, donated five cartons of files from his office upon his death in 1999. She donated four additional cartons of files in 2001. Mary Zawoysky transferred to the Archives the planning materials from a 1993 conference on radioactivity. In 2003 the Archives received an additional carton from Mrs. Hollister
Second-level processing completed by Melissa Lamont in April 2001. Processing of this collection was partly supported by a grant from the Friends of the Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics.
All materials were housed in acid free boxes and folders, staples and other metal clasps removed. Photocopies were made of a large volume of older fax paper. Since the collection was donated to the Data Library and Archives in several pieces, the original order could not be discerned. Effort was made to retain original folder titles and the material was arranged nearly chronologically.
Open: materials are available for research.
Copyright: Permission to publish material from the collection must be authorized by the Institution Archivist.
As Dean of Education for 1979 to 1989, Hollister’s work is documented in the records of the Education Office, in particular box 43. Data from scientific cruises aboard the Portland and Pensacola are located in the Data Collection. The HEBBLE project was documented in a number of WHOI Technical Reports.
Files from the later part of Hollister’s career, particularly those files related to development and fund-raising, have been incorporated into the papers of the Development Office. Development Office files from the 1990s will be retained in that office until scheduled to be deposited in the DLA.
Photographs used for book illustrations are located in the Hollister photograph collection. His work also produced a large quantity of ocean floor photography housed in the Library’s bottom photography collection.
Arranged in three series:
Researchers wishing to find related materials should search the MBLWHOI Library catalog under these terms.
| Biographical Information 1962-1997 1 box (.5 lin. ft.) | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content Note | |||||||||||
| The series incorporates several versions of the Hollister curriculum vita, and several versions of short biographical introductory pieces. A history of the Hollister family and copies of personal documents, a permits to carry a concealed weapon for example, were also found in these folders and were retained. The series also includes folders of news clippings from Hollister’s mountain climbing and trekking expeditions. The 2003 accession includes photographs of trekking expeditions and notebooks from mountain ascents. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| Folders in the series are arranged chronologically. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Curriculum vitae and biographical sketches | undated | ||||||||
| 2 | Mt. McKinley | 1962 | |||||||||
| 3 | Antarctic expedition | 1967 | |||||||||
| 4 | Bhutan trekking | 1984-1989 | |||||||||
| 5 | Naushon Island Trustees | 1989-1995 | |||||||||
| 6 | Positions, nominations | 1983-1995 | |||||||||
| 7 | Dean appointment | 1979 | |||||||||
| 8 | National Geographic Research Committee | 1998 | |||||||||
| 9 | A. Nowell | 1990-1997 | |||||||||
| Projects and Papers 1960s-1998 12 boxes (5.75 lin. ft.) | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content Note | |||||||||||
| This series incorporates paper drafts, proposals, conferences and meetings. Included here is information about Hollister’s work on Komsomolets (box 6), nuclear waste disposal as well as some data from oceanographic cruises earlier in his career (boxes 2-3). Drafts of Face of the Deep (box 9) and Abyssal Sedimentation and Circulation (box 3) are included as are transcripts from Congressional testimony. | |||||||||||
| Arrangement | |||||||||||
| Folders are arranged in a largely chronological order. | |||||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Proposals | 1960s-1970s | ||||||||
| 11 | Proposals | 1970s | |||||||||
| 2 | 1 | National Laboratory | 1969 | ||||||||
| 2 | Bermuda-Tortola cable route survey report | May 1965 | |||||||||
| 3 | Papers: WHOI long piston core and Canber plowing trails | 1968 | |||||||||
| 4 | Marine geology grade book | 1972-1973 | |||||||||
| 5 | DSDP Leg 35, preliminaries | 1972-1974 | |||||||||
| 6 | DSDP Leg 35 informal report, index, navigation | 1975 | |||||||||
| 7 | DSDP Leg 35 draft cruise prospectus and report | 1972-1975 | |||||||||
| 8 | DSDP Leg 35 manuscript | 1976 | |||||||||
| 9 | DSDP Leg 35 grain size | undated | |||||||||
| 10 | DSDP Leg 35 grain size original data | undated | |||||||||
| 11 | DSDP Leg 35 CSP copies | undated | |||||||||
| 12 | DSDP Leg 32 core description and correspondence | 1974 | |||||||||
| 3 | 1 | Hudson Canyon | 1972-1973 | ||||||||
| 2 | Bermuda Rise – Sandia | circa 1975 | |||||||||
| 3 | Sedimentation and abyssal circulation, v.1 | circa 1979 | |||||||||
| 4 | Sedimentation and abyssal circulation, v. 2 | circa 1979 | |||||||||
| 4 | 1 | A. Vine design for active waste disposal capsule | December 1949 | ||||||||
| 2 | Japanese sub-sea bed | 1974 | |||||||||
| 3 | Notes on “The ocean as waste space” | undated | |||||||||
| 4 | Review of draft, sub sea bed disposal review article | March 1984 | |||||||||
| 5 | Rape of the deep | undated | |||||||||
| 6 | Atlantis 152 camera log and camera diagrams | undated | |||||||||
| 7 | Photo table | undated | |||||||||
| 8 | Press clips, long core, storms and sediment | 1970-1984 | |||||||||
| 9 | WHOI administration | 1980s | |||||||||
| 10 | Disposing of high-level radioactive wastes… | February 1984 | |||||||||
| 11 | The nuclear waste primer | 1985 | |||||||||
| 12 | Congressional testimony House Armed Services Committee | March 28, 1985 | |||||||||
| 13 | Sub sea bed disposal project briefing book | 1985 | |||||||||
| 14 | Nuclear brainstorming | January 29, 1986 | |||||||||
| 15 | Selected articles, sea disposal | 1983-1991 | |||||||||
| 16 | Sub sea bed disposal | 1985-1998 | |||||||||
| 17 | Rebuttal: London Dumping Commission | circa 1985 | |||||||||
| 5 | 1 | Nuclear low-level | 1980s | ||||||||
| 2 | Congressional Liaison | 1980s-1990s | |||||||||
| 3 | Ocean Ventures, description and funding | circa 1986 | |||||||||
| 4 | Congressional contacts | 1988 | |||||||||
| 5 | Radioactive waste | 1988-1992 | |||||||||
| 6 | Japanese sub sea bed | 1988 | |||||||||
| 7 | ONR report, Project stress | 1987-1990 | |||||||||
| 8 | Final draft: Success of women students in oceanography | 1989 | |||||||||
| 9 | Correspondence: Edison Electric Institute | 1988 | |||||||||
| 10 | Correspondence: Nichols/Acord/Johnson | 1988-1989 | |||||||||
| 11 | Correspondence: Utilities | 1988-1990 | |||||||||
| 12 | Congressional visits | March 1989 | |||||||||
| 13 | Buckley/Waste issue/Firing Line | 1991 | |||||||||
| 14 | IAEA inventory of radioactive material entering the marine environment… | March 1991 | |||||||||
| 15 | NY Times dumping articles and Dorman response | 1991 | |||||||||
| 16 | Form letter, response to ocean dumping | 1991 | |||||||||
| 17 | Congressional seminar | 1991 | |||||||||
| 18 | Mikulski meeting | 1991 | |||||||||
| 6 | 1 | Comments from Sarah, Face of the Deep | undated | ||||||||
| 2 | Face of the Deep copyright | 1992 | |||||||||
| 3 | Report of the meeting with Igor Spassky | July 13-18, 1992 | |||||||||
| 4 | Meeting agenda, Rubin trip | September 1992 | |||||||||
| 5 | Russian decree | October 24, 1992 | |||||||||
| 6 | Protsenko and Kuzmin visit | December 1992 | |||||||||
| 7 | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis | 1992 | |||||||||
| 8 | Trip report (Russia) mailing | 1992 | |||||||||
| 9 | Greenpeace reports | 1992, 1994 | |||||||||
| 10 | Notes for trip report, St. Petersburg and Moscow | 1992 | |||||||||
| 11 | Trip report, St. Petersburg and Moscow | September 20-25, 1992 | |||||||||
| 12 | Protocol, St. Petersburg meeting, Rubin | September 26, 1992 | |||||||||
| 13 | Post Komsomolets cruise interview transcripts | 1992 | |||||||||
| 14 | Briefing information: Komsomolets | 1992 | |||||||||
| 15 | Komsomolets information | 1992-1993 | |||||||||
| 16 | IAEA Bulletin, 3 articles | March 1992 | |||||||||
| 17 | Radioactivity and environmental security in the oceans proposal for an international conference | July 1992 | |||||||||
| 18 | ABC News | 1992 | |||||||||
| 19 | NSF review | 1992 | |||||||||
| 20 | Arctic nuclear waste assessment program | 1993-1994 | |||||||||
| 21 | Conference on the Arctic, Fairbanks Alaska | 1992 | |||||||||
| 22 | Testimony, Intelligence Committee, Senate | August 15, 1992 | |||||||||
| 23 | Senate testimony, Alaska | August 15, 1992 | |||||||||
| 24 | Nuclear waste, Arctic, letters and reports | 1992 | |||||||||
| 7 | 1 | Media – press releases – nuclear | 1992-1993 | ||||||||
| 2 | Draft white paper by McDowell | 1992 | |||||||||
| 3 | Planning meeting: Radioactivity in the ocean | 1992 | |||||||||
| 4 | Council on Foreign Relations | 1992 | |||||||||
| 5 | Memo and brochure, Canada /Russia cooperation | December 1992 | |||||||||
| 6 | DeMars briefing | December 14, 1992 | |||||||||
| 7 | International Science and Technology Center | 1992 | |||||||||
| 8 | Keldysh cruise #31 original data | August 1993 | |||||||||
| 9 | Keldysh – Komsomolets trip report | July-August 1993 | |||||||||
| 10 | Protocol/MOU/Cruise summary Komsomolets | July-August 1993 | |||||||||
| 11 | Nikolai P. Laverdv | February 19-21, 1993 | |||||||||
| 12 | Media coverage: conference on radioactivity | 1993 | |||||||||
| 13 | Correspondence: Keldysh and Mir | 1993 | |||||||||
| 14 | Oslo – St. Petersburg, Spassky correspondence | January-February 1993 | |||||||||
| 15 | Department of Defense (DOD) report to congress, nuclear pollution in the Arctic Seas | December 12, 1993 | |||||||||
| 16 | Raytheon | 1993 | |||||||||
| 17 | Abstracts: radioactivity conference | February 24, 1993 | |||||||||
| 18 | Draft executive summary: radioactivity and environmental security | July 1993 | |||||||||
| 19 | Reading: nuclear waste | 1987-1997 | |||||||||
| 8 | 1 | R.L. Garwin, correspondence and drafts | 1992-1993 | ||||||||
| 2 | Congressional testimony, House | 1993 | |||||||||
| 3 | Arctic conference and cruise | 1993 | |||||||||
| 4 | Arctic media and letters | 1993 | |||||||||
| 5 | Komsomolets article translation, Federoff | 1993 | |||||||||
| 6 | Brochures and mailing lists, radioactivity conference | 1993 | |||||||||
| 7 | Russia trip | April 1993 | |||||||||
| 8-9 | Invitations and abstracts, US/Russia conference (2 folders) | 1993 | |||||||||
| 10 | Russian papers | circa 1993 | |||||||||
| 11 | National Research Council, decommissioning nuclear ships | December 1993 | |||||||||
| 9 | 1 | Komsomolets proposal | 1994 | ||||||||
| 2 | Komsomolets Foundation, | 1994-1995 | |||||||||
| 3 | NATO/CCMS Pilot study | 1995 | |||||||||
| 4 | Point sources of nuclear material on the sea floor | undated | |||||||||
| 5 | St. Petersburg symposium – Komsomolets | 1994 | |||||||||
| 6 | Geological Society of America presentation | October 1994 | |||||||||
| 7 | Komsomolets nuclear submarine report | June 3, 1994 | |||||||||
| 8 | Keldysh proposals | Summer 1994 | |||||||||
| 9 | Spassky/Chron. Fax messages | 1992-1996 | |||||||||
| 10 | Face of the Deep, Bruce Heezen | 1994 | |||||||||
| 11 | Face of the Deep, part 2 (preface) | 1996 | |||||||||
| 12 | Briefing book, Sub sea bed disposal project | 1985 | |||||||||
| 13 | Management of excess plutonium | 1994 | |||||||||
| 14 | Nuclear waste projects at WHOI | 1994 | |||||||||
| 15 | Business cards (Russian) and notes | 1994 | |||||||||
| 16 | Naval Research Laboratory – correspondence | 1994 | |||||||||
| 17 | Nuclear, news clippings, various | undated | |||||||||
| 18 | View graphs, mostly nuclear waste disposal, various | undated | |||||||||
| 10 | 1 | Message book | May 1995 | ||||||||
| 2 | Sub sea bed conference | March 23, 1995 | |||||||||
| 3 | Sub sea bed disposal articles | 1995 | |||||||||
| 4 | Sub sea bed disposal reports and chapters | 1989-1995 | |||||||||
| 5 | Correspondence: Kadak, Nichols | June-July 1995 | |||||||||
| 6 | Protocol on intentions of cooperation… | 1995 | |||||||||
| 7 | Correspondence: Sagalevitch | 1995 | |||||||||
| 8 | Russian visit | 1995 | |||||||||
| 9 | Arctic nuclear waste assessment workshop | May 1-4, 1995 | |||||||||
| 10 | Naval Research Lab monitoring workshop | 1995 | |||||||||
| 11 | Congressional education week | October 17-21, 1995 | |||||||||
| 12 | Sub sea bed disposal correspondence | 1995-1996 | |||||||||
| 11 | 1 | S. Nadis and sub sea bed disposal | 1996 | ||||||||
| 2 | Yankee project correspondence | 1995-1997 | |||||||||
| 3 | Sub sea bed | 1996-1997 | |||||||||
| 4 | Naval Research Lab, deep ocean isolation | 1996 | |||||||||
| 5 | Draft transcript Doherty lecture | May 1997 | |||||||||
| 6 | Draft: Sub sea bed plutonium disposal | August 1997 | |||||||||
| 7 | Manuscript: Seabed plutonium disposal | 1998 | |||||||||
| 8 | Voyage to the Lands of Humboldt and Darwin | 1998 | |||||||||
| 9 | South America logs, notes and maps | 1998 | |||||||||
| 10 | Sub sea bed plutonium disposal, Readers Digest | January 1999 | |||||||||
| 11 | Nature: paper drafts and correspondence, sub sea bed | 1998 | |||||||||
| 12 | Non traditional funding sources | 1994-1995 | |||||||||
| 13 | Itineraries | 1998-1999 | |||||||||
| 14 | J.K. Research Associates | 2001 | |||||||||
| 12 | 1 | Keynote: Radioactivity conference | 1992-1993 | ||||||||
| 2 | Bills and Participants | 1993 | |||||||||
| 3 | Observers, Radioactivity conference | 1993 | |||||||||
| 4 | Support, Sponsors, Radioactivity conference | 1993 | |||||||||
| 5 | Program planning – Radioactivity | 1992-1993 | |||||||||
| 6 | Conference proceedings mailing | 1993 | |||||||||
| 7 | Post conference correspondence | 1993 | |||||||||
| 8 | Grant proposal | June 1993 | |||||||||
| 9 | Brochure mailing list | 1993 | |||||||||
| 10 | Sub seabed | 1999 | |||||||||
| 11 | Coyote | 1987-1999 | |||||||||
| 12 | Coyote | 1992-1998 | |||||||||
| 13 | Bhutan, (notebook) | 1985, 1987 | |||||||||
| 14 | Bhutan, (notebook) | 1984 | |||||||||
| 15 | Bhutan, (notebook) | 1987 | |||||||||
| 13 | 1 | Condolences | 1999 | ||||||||
| Accompanying Material undated | |||||||||||
| Scope and Content Note | |||||||||||
| This series includes numerous photographs. Photographs used for book illustrations are located in the Hollister photograph collection. His work also produced a large quantity of ocean floor photography housed in the Library’s bottom photography collection. | |||||||||||
| Photo drawer | Face of the Deep illustrations, (20 folders) | ||||||||||
| L. King, Bedford Institute, photos | |||||||||||
| DSDP, Komsomolets, Russia trip photos | |||||||||||
| Color photos and negatives | |||||||||||
| Sedimentation and abyssal circulation illustrations | |||||||||||
| Assorted photos including trekking | |||||||||||
| Ocean floor photography, Archives vault. | |||||||||||