Department of Physical Oceanography records
Scope and Content Note
The records consist mainly of proposals and grants, and also include department and office files, reports and files of Geoffrey Whitney, and a series of employee files.
Dates
- Creation: 1929-2003
Language of Materials
The records are in
English.
Access
Restricted: materials may only be viewed by the Office of Origin or with permission of the Archivist.
Use
Copyright: Permission to publish material from the collection must be authorized by the Institution Archivist.
Historical Information
The Physical Oceanography department began as a separate entity at WHOI in 1962 with a total scientific staff of 20 and Fritz Fuglister as the first chairman. Since then, the department has grown to its highest ever population of 34 scientists at present. The scientific foci include the general circulations of the oceans, climate variability, shelf/slope dynamics, mixing, and air-sea interaction. The department is an active participant in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program with staff giving courses and advising graduate students. Besides a population of students, they have a number of Post Doctoral Scholars/Investigators who provide an influx of new ideas and sometimes become new members of our scientific staff. The department continues to maintain leadership in ‘blue water’ oceanography and has grown to be one of the leaders in coastal oceanography as well.
Extent
75 boxes (41 lin. ft.)
Overview
The Department of Physical Oceanography records consist mainly of proposals and grants, and also include department and office files, reports and files of Geoffrey Whitney.
Arrangement
Arranged in four series:
List of Series:
Custodial History
The custodial history of the records is undocumented.
Acquisitions Information
The records were sent to the Data Library and Archives in several accessions, including acc. 2001-21, 2002-37, 2002-38, 2003-25 and 2005-13. The employee files series was received as acc. 2010-32 in December 2010.
Processing Information
The records are unprocessed. A folder listing was completed by Marisa Hudspeth in April 2004. A folder listing for the employee files series was created in December 2010 by David Sherman.
- Title
- A Guide to the Department of Physical Oceanography records, 1929-2010
- Author
- Marisa Hudspeth
- Date
- April 29, 2004
- 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