Jan B. Lawson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Swan Song Expedition (1961) is shown here lowering the bathythermograph (BT) from the R/V Argo. This expedition explored the North Pacific at the equator and Eastern Tropical Pacific on the research ship Argo. The expedition collected large water samples for analysis, studied the Cromwell Current (Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent), and undertook a limited biological program for the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission. 1961.

• 1961

This digital image is a surrogate of an item from the Jan B. Lawson Papers, 1958-1996

• Argo (Ship)
• Swan Song Expedition (1961)

• Lawson, Jan B.

• Bathythermograph
• Oceanographers
• Oceanographic instruments

• image

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