Ground Breaking at S.I.O. - With an earth-moving machine in the background waiting to go to work, Dr. M.N.A. Peterson, right, and Mr. A.R. McLerran, break ground for an additional Deep Sea Drilling Project building at Scripps Institutioin of Oceanography. Dr. Peterson is Principal Investigator and Project Manager of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, while Mr. McLerran is the National Science Foundatin Field Project Officer for DSDP. The new building, located East of the original Project building on La Jolla Shores Drive, will be a partial two-storey structure with the entire lower floor designed for core storage and handling. Laboratories and office space will be located on the second floor. The new structure will cost an estimated $260,000.

• 1970-03-09

• Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Photo by Larry Ford

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the SIO Deep Sea Drilling Project Records, 1961-1987

Note on verso says SIO Photographic Laboratory 3283F

• Deep Sea Drilling Project
• Scripps Institution of Oceanography--Buildings

• Brunot, Kenneth E.
• McLerran, Arch R.
• Nierenberg, William A. (William Aaron), 1919-2000
• Peterson, Melvin N. A.

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