Thomas Wayland Vaughan Papers
This accession consists of field notes of Thomas Wayland Vaughan (1870-1952), a geologist and oceanographer with the United States Geological Survey, the United States National Museum, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. His research focused on the study of corals and coral reefs, the investigation of larger foraminifera, and oceanography. Materials …
Publications
This accession consists of a reference set of Atoll Research Bulletin published by Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, including Smithsonian Institution Press. The first 117 numbers of the Bulletin were issued by the National Research Council, Pacific Science Board, and were devoted largely to reports resulting from the Pacific Science Board's Coral …
Productions
This accession consists of audiovisual elements created during the production of "The Sea: A Quest for Our Future" and other films associated with the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Life in the Sea Hall. "The Sea: A Quest for Our Future" is a 60 minute film produced in 1984 and broadcast …
Productions
This accession consists of audiovisual elements created during the production of films associated with the exhibition "Exploring Marine Ecosystems." The exhibition, located in the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), Life in the Sea Hall, included reproductions of two ecosystems, the Maine coast and a tropical coral reef. In 1992, a …
Productions
This accession consists of audiovisual elements created during the production of "The Sea: A Quest for Our Future;" "Coral Reefs: New Discoveries, New Resources;" "Coral Reefs: How to Make Use of 400 Million Years of Evolution;" "Coral Reefs: Understanding Their Passage Through Time;" "Blue Planet;" "Coral Reefs and the Discovery of …
Thomas Wayland Vaughan Papers
These papers consist of Vaughan's professional correspondence with American and foreign scientists concerning descriptions of fossil localities; the identification, description and exchange of specimens; research in coral foraminifera and oceanography; research conditions in Europe around the time of World War II; and the activities of scientific committees on which Vaughan …
Curatorial Correspondence and Memoranda
This accession consists of the records of Ian G. Macintyre, Curator Emeritus, who specializes in carbonate sedimentology with a multidisciplinary interest in post-glacial history of coral reefs, submarine lithification, skeletal mineralogy of reef organisms, bioerosion, and Holocene sea-level history in the western Atlantic and eastern Pacific. The records primarily document …
MS 7516 Documents relating to scientific investigations in Micronesia
Fischer, Ann K.
Squires, Donald Fleming
Mason, Leonard, 1913-2005
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Includes John L. and Anne M. Fischer's East Caroline Handbook (1954); Donald F. Squires, The Coral Reefs of Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands (1950); Leonard Mason, Anthropology-Geography Study of Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands; Robert W. Hiatt, Marine Zoology Study of Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands (1950); Earl L. Stone, The soils and agriculture of Arno …
Research Program Records
These records document special programs and projects undertaken in the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). Included are files on the Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems Program, Scholarly Studies Program, Short-Term Visitors Program, a 1987 NMNH expedition to Henderson Island in the South Pacific, the 1987 NMNH Task Force on Research, the NMNH …
F. Raymond Fosberg Papers
This accession consists of project files and correspondence created by F. Raymond Fosberg. Most of the materials document Fosberg's involvement with the U.S. International Biological Program and the Comparative Investigations of Tropical Reef Ecosystems Project. Materials include proposals, reports, and correspondence.
