Carl O. Bowin papers
Scope and Content Note
The Carl O. Bowin papers consist of materials relating to Bowin's work at WHOI from 1958-1999.
Dates
- Creation: 1958-1999
Language of Materials
The records are in
English.
Access
Open: materials are available for research.
Use
Copyright: Permission to publish material from the collection must be authorized by the Institution Archivist.
Biographical Information
Carl O. Bowin was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1934. He did his undergraduate work at the California Institute of Technology, and received his M.A. in geology at Northwestern University in 1957, and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1960.
Bowin was an instructor at Princeton in the geology department until he was named as a research associate at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1961, doing geophysical work under J.B. Hersey.
Extent
21 boxes plus oversized material (27.375 lin. ft.)
Overview
The Carl O. Bowin papers consist of materials relating to Bowin's work at WHOI from 1958-1999.
Arrangement
The papers are arranged in ten series:
Custodial History
The custodial history of the records is undocumented.
Acquisitions Information
The papers were donated by Carl Bowin in several accessions dating from 1981 to 2009, including acc. 1998-10, 1999-02, 1999-05 and 2002-05. Accessions 2009-40 and 2009-41 were received from Carl Bowin's office in the Clark building on September 16, 21 and 23, 2009. Accession 2009-48 was received on November 12, 2009.
Processing Information
Second-level processing completed in September 2006 by Beverly Woods.
- Title
- A Guide to the the Carl O. Bowin papers, 1958-1999
- Author
- Beverly Woods and David Sherman
- Date
- September 2006
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written inEnglish
Repository Details
Part of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Data Library and Archives Repository