The Evolution of Geosciences at Scripps

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E.L. Winterer | Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, California, USA

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Immediately following World War II, the faculty and research staff at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, under the leadership of Director Roger Revelle, began to grow quickly to meet the new challenges of work beyond the immediate continental margin of southern California. By 1950, the geosciences group included, in geology, Revelle, Milton N. Bramlette, Francis P. Shepard, Fred B Phleger, and Douglas L. Inman; in geophysics, Carl H. Eckart, Walter H. Munk, and Russell W. Raitt; and in geochemistry, Edward D. Goldberg. Two geologists from the Naval Electronics Laboratory, Robert S. Dietz and Henry W. Menard, held appointments as lecturers.

The hallmark of Scripps research in the geosciences has been, from the beginning, cooperation among scientists with different special interests in designing and carrying out broadly based research programs so as to make the most effective use of Scripps ships. The various professorial and research titles were and are still treated as equivalent. Many scientists in the Research Series hold appointments as lecturers so they may participate in course instruction and in guidance of doctoral students. We are not a hierarchy, but a company of scholars.

In the following sketch of the evolution of the geosciences at Scripps since 1950, the contributions of individual Scripps scientists had to be greatly abbreviated, especially for those who have been here for decades, with only highlights mentioned. People who were here for only a few years and have long ago gone elsewhere are not included in this brief review.

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Winterer, E.L. 2003. The evolution of geosciences at Scripps. Oceanography 16(3):55–59, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2003.31.

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