Accession No.: 86-46
PROCESSING RECORD
SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY ARCHIVES
Snodgrass, Frank E 1920-1985
Frank E. Snodgrass Photographs, 1953-1976
BULK DATES: 1961-1976
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 1 mss
DESCRIPTION: The accession consists of 286 2x2 color and black and white slides
illustrating the scientific work of Frank Snodgrass who worked for the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography as an assistant (later associate) engineer from 1953-1976. These slides were
compiled by IGPP illustrator Breck (formerly Don) Betts for presentation at a memorial
service for Frank Snodgrass. They largely document the period 1961-1975 when Snodgrass
worked with Walter H. Munk at IGPP. The slides include schematics and data, images of
instruments designed, constructed and/or tested by Snodgrass, images of the SIO campus, and
SIO research vessels, images of the ocean bottom and a few images of Snodgrass himself.
One image shows Frank Snodgrass (foreground) speaking with then graduate student James
Irish during a 1970 cruise off Antarctica to study deep sea tides. Another image shows
Snodgrass operating a winch on board Scripps research vessel Ellen B. Scripps in 1975,
during the first tests of acoustic transmissions in the ocean for an experiment that led to the
development of acoustic tomography.
96 glass lantern slides were added to this collection on March 10, 1992, transferred from
Mandeville Special Collections Library. These were identified by Walter Munk’s assistant
Breck Betts, as belonging to Frank Snodgrass.
Lantern Slides
1-11
12-26
27-45
46-49
50
Stratified fluid
Equation of State of Sea Water
Stratified Fluid Tidal Equations
Equation of State Sea Water
Drogue Measurements
51-57
58
59-67
68-90
98
Study Motion Incompressible Fluid
Temperature-Salinity 500 meters
Praudtl - Streamlines and vortices
Internal Waves
Praudtl