Records, 1991-1993.

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Records, 1991-1993.

There are conference, seminar and meeting materials, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, congressional statements, reprints, papers, and audiocassette tape transcriptions. The records contain information on two areas where WHO has been involved in a public and controversial topic: deep ocean isolation of waste, and radioactive waste disposal in the ocean. There are also files on two congressional seminars, which include a trip report, edited by Charles D. Hollister, about a US delegation's trip to St. Petersburg and Moscow, Russian on Sept. 20-25, 1992. Lastly there are files relating to WHOI's Oral History Colloquy which Director Craig Dorman initiated and the Communications Office organized. The Colloquy fiels contain two copies of the tape transcription and participant's lists and correspondence, including information on Roger Revelle who died July 15, 1991, on the eve of the History Colloquy. There is related Colloquy information in the Director's fiels, Craig Dorman.

1.25 lin. ft. (1 box).

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SNAC Resource ID: 8209319

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Revelle, Roger, 1909-1991

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Revelle (1909-1991). Research oceanographer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography. From the description of Sound recordings, 1984. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82028116 From the description of Oral history interview with Roger Revelle: Observations on the Office of Naval Research and International Science, 1945-1960 1984 November. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 83494102 American oceanographer. From the description of Papers, ...

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Office of Communications, (Sallie K. Riggs, Director).

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The Office of Communications was created in 1990, and Sally K. Riggs became the first and only Director from April 1, 1990 to December 1993. Her responsibilities included overseeing the Public Information Office, Institution publications including Oceanus, media relations, the Exhibit center, general public relations, and some aspects of the Institution's governmental relations program. She was part of WHOI's reorganization scheme started in the summer of 1990 by WHOI director, Craig Dorman, des...

Woods Hole oceanographic institution

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