Accession No.: 97-07
PROCESSING RECORD
Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives
Dayton, Paul Kuykendall 1941-
Paul K. Dayton Papers, 1973-2000
Physical Description: 13 mss; 1 ½ legal mss
Description: The accession consists of four cubic feet of files of benthic ecologist Paul K.
Dayton.
The collection includes correspondence dated 1973-2000 and files documenting
committees on which Dayton served. The accession includes files documenting Dayton’s
activities as a member of the National Research Council, Commission on Geosciences,
Environment and Resources, Ocean Studies Board, Committee on Fishes. This committee was
appointed in 1993 to study and report on the reauthorization of the Fishery Management Act
(Magnuson Act). These material include Dayton’s files on his reports on fisheries to the Marine
Mammal Commission, 1992-1993.
The accession includes files documenting the work of a three man committee including Dayton,
Craig W. Osenberg and John R. Skalski, appointed jointly by Southern California Edison and the
California Coastal Commission to study impacts to kelp resulting from the operation of San
Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) 2 and 3. The committee was specifically charged
evaluate studies by Dean and Deysher (1996) and Jahn et al (1996).
The papers include drafts of the SONGS report and background material including SONGS
coastal permit requests and amendments and Marine Review Committee reports. The accession
also includes electronic and hard printouts of Dayton’s email file on this project, which consists
of messages dated February 21 to May 5, 1996.
Marine Review Committee, Inc.
San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (Calif.)
Southern California Edison Company
Fishery Law and Legislation United States
Marine ecology California, Southern
Nuclear power plants Environmental aspects California, Southern
Osterberg, Craig W.
Skalski, John R.