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American Institute of Physics. Center for History of Physics. Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. Phase II: Space Science and Geophysics. Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP) (Geophysics and Oceanography): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

Title: Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP) (Geophysics and Oceanography): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

Interviews were conducted with members of the project's collaboration using a structured question set covering all stages of in the collaborative research process: the formation of the collaboration and its personnel; the organizational structure; the formation of the experiment teams; the drafting of the proposal; funding for U.S. groups by the National Science Foundation or other U.S. funding agencies; use of subcontractors; development of software for data collection and analysis; the collaboration's decision-making style; role of the Principal Investigators, science management offices, consortia headquarters, advisory groups, and graduates students; impact of internationalism; patterns of communications; records creation, use, distribution, and retention; also, comments on the interviewee's home institution and trends in graduate education in geophysics and oceanography. Interviews (listed by institutional member of the collaboration and by name of individual) were conducted with: Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory: Debra Meese; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (formally Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory): Wallace Broecker; National Science Foundation: Herman Zimmerman; Pennsylvania State University: Rich ard Alley; Polar Ice Coring Office, University of Alaska: John Kelley, Bruce Koci; Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego: Martin Wahlen; State University of New York, Buffalo: Chester Langway; University of Arizona: Alex Wilson; University of Bern, Switzerland: Hans Oeschger; University of Colorado: James White; University of Copenhagen, Denmark: William Dansgaard, Klaus Hammer; University of New Hampshire: Paul Mayewski, Julie Palais. Other institutions involved in the collaboration include: Carnegie Mellon University, Desert Research Institute (Nevada), Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, St Olaf College, University of Maimi, University of Rhode Island, and the University of Washington.

ArchivalResource: 15 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82630931 View

Leszcza, Jan. Jan Leszcza papers, 1949-1992.

Title: Jan Leszcza papers, 1949-1992.

Includes correspondence, literary manuscripts, clippings, and photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122500259 View