Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) (Geophysics and Oceanography): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

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Consortium for Continental Reflection Profiling (COCORP) (Geophysics and Oceanography): Oral history interviews, 1992-1994.

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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: Cornell University: Clifford Ando, Larry Brown, Jack Oliver, Sidney Kaufman; New Mexico Tech: Allan Sanford; National Science Foundation: Leonard Johnson; Stanford University: George Thompson. Other founding institutions include: Princeton University, University of Texas at Houston, and the University of Wisconsin.

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This oral history project was undertaken by the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics, beginning in about 1976. The American Philosophical Society Library is a designated repository for the archive, which includes photocopies of typed manuscripts of the interviews, and microfilm and microfiche of certain manuscript collections of astrophysicists. These include the papers of Robert D'E Atkinson, Seth Chandler, Theodore Dunham [The American Philosophical Society has re...

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COCORP adapted the technology of seismic reflection profiling, which oil companies routinely used for exploring feasible drilling distances into the earth's crusts, to probe greater distances into the crust. By varying the parameters at which the instrumentation sends out and receive signals, and by processing the data to bring out signals from deeper structures, COCORP (and seismic reflection profiling projects in other countries) have made sub-surface structure a "third dimension" to surface g...

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Princeton University

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Oliver, J. E. 1923-2011.

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Cornell University

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University of Wisconsin--Madison

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Stanford university

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Stanford entered into a research project with the National Iranian Radio and Television agency in 1974 to study and recommend a satellite-based communication system for Iran and how to utilize it for Iran's educational radio and television. From the description of Stanford NIRT project records, 1974-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122510722 The Leland Stanford Junior University was established in 1885 in memory of Leland Stanford Jr., the only child of Senator and Mrs. ...