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Scientists from Austria and England examine deep-sea sediment core at Deep Sea Drilling Project headquartered at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC-San Diego. From left, Dr. Peter Steinhauser, geophysics professor, Center for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna; Dr. Thomas A. Davies, DSDP staff coordinating geologist; and Dr. James Williamson, University lecturer in atmospheric physics, Oxford University, London. Visiting scientists were among group from abroad participating in annual IBM Professor Tour of U.S. scientistific, educational and government organizations. DSDP is managed by Scripps under contract to National Science Foundation, and is part of NSF's Ocean Sediment Coring Program.

Scientists from Austria and England examine deep-sea sediment core at Deep Sea Drilling Project headquartered at Scripps I...