Charles S. Cox Papers, 1951-2008 (MSS 797)

OFF-SITE STORAGE: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW TWO TO THREE (2-3) WEEKS FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Extent: 4.25 Linear feet (11 archives boxes)

Papers of Charles Shipley Cox (1922-2015), a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who was known for his studies of electromagnetic fields in the ocean and seafloor, and of ocean microstructures such as temperature, salinity and velocity. The collection includes research data, writings, laboratory notebooks, correspondence, and images.

For information about Cox's life and research, see his UC San Diego obituary. A biographical fact sheet is also the first folder in Box 1.

Series Scope and Content: Papers of Charles "Chip" Shipley Cox (1922-2015), a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography who was known for his studies of electromagnetic fields in the ocean and seafloor, and of ocean microstructures such as temperature, salinity and velocity. The collection includes research data, writings, laboratory notebooks, correspondence, and images. This collection is small and may not represent all of Cox's research work.

Arranged in four series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS, 3) NOTEBOOKS, and 4) RESEARCH PROJECTS AND DATA.

Peter Brueggeman collection of oral histories. SMC 127. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

Container List

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Cox's professional correspondence with other oceanographers.

Box 1 Folder 1
Chronological correspondence, 1970-1984
Box 1 Folder 2
Vanyan, Leonid, 1991-1994
Box 1 Folder 3
Zinger, Boris (Benison), 1992-1993

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) WRITINGS: Drafts, notes, data, images, and correspondence for Cox's articles on physical oceanography. Includes correspondence and drafts for Coming of Age: Scripps Institution of Oceanography - A Centennial Volume, 1903-2003 which Cox edited with Edward D. Goldberg and Robert L. Fisher.

Box 1 Folder 4
Internal Waves: The Sea, Ideas and Observations, ca. 1959
Box 1 Folder 5
Magnetic Induction at Oceanic Margins, 1960
Box 1 Folder 6
C. Cox and T. Teramoto. Coherence Between the Electric Field in Ocean and Geomagnetic Fluctuations, 1960
Box 1 Folder 7
Energy in Semidiurnal Internal Waves, 1966
Box 1 Folder 8
The Relation of Backscattered Radiation to Wind-Stress at the Sea Surface, 1967
Box 1 Folder 9
Spectrum of a Nyquist Sampled Series, ca. 1969
Box 1 Folder 10
The Electrical Conductivity of the Ocean Lithosphere, ca. 1970
Box 1 Folder 11
IUGG Quadrennual Report: Oceanic Microstructure, ca. 1971
Box 1 Folder 12
Fast Fourier Transform and Inverse for Complex or Real Data Using Integer Mode (FFTI) or Floating Point (FFT FP) Arithmetic, ca. 1972
Box 1 Folder 13
M. C. Gregg and C. S. Cox. The Vertical Microstructure of Temperature and Salinity, 1972
Box 1 Folder 14
Pressure cases and vessels, 1973
Box 1 Folder 15
GRAPH - Nova Subroutines to Operate an Incremental Plotter and Tektronix 4011 Scope, 1975
Box 1 Folder 16
Active and Passive Methods for Electromagnetic Sounding on Continental Margins, 1978
Box 1 Folder 17
Pavel Pistek and Charles S. Cox. Search for a Resistive Layer Under the Ocean, ca. 1978
Box 1 Folder 18
C. S. Cox and C. L. Johnson. Inter-relations of Micro Processes, Internal Waves, and Large-Scale Ocean Features, 1979
Box 1 Folder 19-20
C. S. Cox, T. K. Deaton and P. Pistek. An Active Source EM Method for the Seafloor, 1979-1981
Box 2 Folder 1
Electromagnetic Effects of Acoustic and Seismic Waves in the Sea, 1981
Box 2 Folder 2
Report for Panel on Ocean Bottom Positioning, 1981
Box 2 Folder 3
S. W. Webb and C. S. Cox. Ocean Floor Observations of the Evolution of the Microseism Spectrum During a Storm, 1983
Box 2 Folder 4
The Down Wire Pinger: A Device to Navigate Equipment in Midwater or on the Seafloor, ca. 1986
Box 2 Folder 5
T. F. Duda and C. S. Cox. Mean Level, Variance and Longevity of Upper Ocean Temperature Microstructure, ca. 1987
Box 2 Folder 6
Hydraulic Pressure Amplification, 1990
Box 2 Folder 7
A 2-D Water Surface Slope Detector for Measuring Wave Number Spectrum of Very Short Waves, ca. 1991
Box 2 Folder 8
Charles S. Cox and Zhengxu Qian. Ag/AgCl Electrodes Made from Powdered Silver for Oceanic Measurements, 1991
Box 2 Folder 9
Capillary waves, 1992
Box 2 Folder 10
Pressure Sensors, 1992
Box 2 Folder 11
Thomas K. Deaton and Charles S. Cox. Low Noise Amplifier, 1992-1994
Box 2 Folder 12-13
Robert L. Fisher, Edward D. Goldberg, and Charles S. Cox, editors. Coming of Age: Scripps Institution of Oceanography - A Centennial Volume, 1903-2003 (2003) - Correspondence and drafts, 1998-2002
Box 2 Folder 14
Charles Cox, Xin Zhang, Spahr Webb, and David Jacobs. Electro-magnetic Fluctuations Induced by Geomagnetic Induction in Turbulent Flow of Seawater in a Tidal Channel. Mireles 2001, 3rd International Conference on Marine Electromagnetics, Stockholm, 2001 July 11-13
Box 2 Folder 15
Some Oceanic Features of the Upper Gulf of California, ca. 2005
Box 2 Folder 16
Notes on Gas Vents on the Sea Floor of the Northern Gulf of California, 2005-2006
Box 2 Folder 17
Wind Drag on Water III (Skewness), 2007
Box 2 Folder 18
Decay of Eddy Currents in the Ocean
Box 3 Folder 1
Electromagnetic Measurements of the Sea Bed
Box 3 Folder 2
Evaporative and Radiational Cooling of the Sea Surface
Box 3 Folder 3
Motional Electrical Fields as Observed by the Cartesian Diver
Box 3 Folder 4
MTOS: A Magnetic Tape Operating System to Simplify Use of the NOVA Computers
Box 3 Folder 5
A Self-recording Device to Measure the Index of Refraction of Seawater

NOTEBOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) NOTEBOOKS: Laboratory and expedition notebooks kept by Cox and other researchers in his lab. Includes data, notes, diagrams, and equations.

Box 3 Folder 6
Walter C. Fontana - Laboratory notebook, AOG, 1961
Box 3 Folder 7
John Fiske Brown - Laboratory notebook, 1966
Box 3 Folder 8
Adam Schultz - E1 Rise E & M Analysis, C. S. Cox, 1979
Box 3 Folder 9-10
Clancy A. Latham. Cartesian Diver, 1980-1981
Box 3 Folder 11
Clancy A. Latham. Ag-AgCl Electrodes, 1982
Box 3 Folder 12
C. S. Cox - Llave, Humboldt, Etching, Suchiate, 1986-2005

RESEARCH PROJECTS AND DATA

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4): RESEARCH PROJECTS AND DATA: Data, notes, images, diagrams, equipment specifications, correspondence, charts, computer programs, proposals and reports for Cox's research projects at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Cox developed much of his own equipment used for studying electromagnetic activity on the seafloor and ocean microstructure.

Box 4 Folder 1-2
Antennas - Controlled source antennas and laying long antennas
Box 4 Folder 3
Array - Geometry, time, and storage, 2000
Box 4 Folder 4
Bathymetry of magma site, 1991
Box 4 Folder 5
Battery test results, 1967
Box 4 Folder 6
Bubble collector, 2003
Box 4 Folder 7-9
Cables - Cable in lossy medium (LOSYCABL), dynamics of cable laying, cable drag, 1969-1989
Box 4 Folder 10
Capacitor calibration, 1995
Box 4 Folder 11-13
Cartesian Diver - Double frequency pressures, hydraulic pump, correspondence, and proposals, 1977-1991
Box 4 Folder 14
Charlotte data, 1979

Includes photos.

Box 4 Folder 15-23
Computer programs - Printouts and notes, 1973-1991

FFT68, IACSPEC, OCWAVE, PROP, RSPEC, SAM, SCMOD, SUT/DEHMODI/SFNORM, WAVEM.

Box 4 Folder 24
Conductivity of rocks, ocean crust and mantle, 1974-1979
Box 5 Folder 1-4
Conductivity of rocks, ocean crust and mantle, 1964-1977
Box 5 Folder 5
Contours of Zx
Box 5 Folder 6
CTD - Colvos Passage, 1999
Box 5 Folder 7
Current - Puget, ADCP, MTVS, 2000
Box 5 Folder 8
Cylinder tests
Box 5 Folder 9
DSDP 396B, Leg 46 data sheet
Box 5 Folder 10
Electric field magnetic tape unit, 1982
Box 5 Folder 11-16
Electrodes - Noise, silver-silver chloride electrodes, and electrode system, 1981-2000
Box 5 Folder 17
E. M. Anisotropy
Box 5 Folder 18-20
E.M. Controlled Source and Pressure Experiment Over the East Pacific Rise, 1988-1989

Proposal, notes, data and correspondence from Charles Darwin.

Box 6 Folder 1-4
E.M. Controlled Source and Pressure Experiment Over the East Pacific Rise, 1989

Jalisco earthquake, Darwin data and ELFs.

Box 6 Folder 5
Equipment drawings, 1967
Box 6 Folder 6-10
Fast Fourier Transform - FFT FP 10.1, floating point FFTI, C&R user group version, FFTSTRS, COSEV10, 1972
Box 6 Folder 11
Flash lamp, 1994-1995
Box 6 Folder 12-13
Fresnel lenses - Air-filled and immersed in water, 1994-1995
Box 6 Folder 14
Guadalupe Island, 1989
Box 6 Folder 15
Heat flux - Electric mean
Box 6 Folder 16
Hours 11-210, 2000
Box 7 Folder 1
Hours 282-258, 2000
Box 7 Folder 2
Hydrolab laser, 2008
Box 7 Folder 3
Induction coil sensing, 1993
Box 7 Folder 4
Infrared heating of water, and thermal profiles, 1994
Box 7 Folder 5
Input admittance, Es mode - 3 layers, 1990
Box 7 Folder 6-7
IRIS Consortium on Submarine Cables - SD cable, 1989-1994
Box 7 Folder 8
Llave and Hypogene data, 1972-1986
Box 7 Folder 9
Magnetometer, 1984
Box 7 Folder 10
Mirror and screen for w/w tank
Box 7 Folder 11
MT Cohen/Phs
Box 7 Folder 12
NSC 800 - Braemor interface and monitor, 1980
Box 7 Folder 13
Ocean platform
Box 7 Folder 14
ONR Physical Oceanography planning, 1994-1995
Box 7 Folder 15
Optical slab guide
Box 7 Folder 16
Period counter as sampled data digitizer
Box 7 Folder 17
Permeable rod as flux concentrator, 1992
Box 8 Folder 1-25
Plume data, records 0-29, 1990

Kermadec, Northern California, Sumatra, Tonga earthquake, Luzon, Michoacan, New Britain, S. Java, Guatemala, Mindanao, Tonga, Peru, Rat, New Zealand, Marianas, Ryukyu, Oaxaca, Guerrero, Honshu, Leeward Island, Nicaragua, Chile, Easter Island, Fiji.

Box 9 Folder 1-14
Plume data, records 32-39, 1990

Fiji, Vanuatu, Ceram, Andreanoff, Peru, Max, Noddy, Opus, Quail, A2, Baja California, Thomas Washington, rate of clocks.

Box 9 Folder 15-19
Pressure gauges - Relative pressure, differential pressure, and stable pressure, 1982-2008
Box 10 Folder 1
References to slope
Box 10 Folder 2-3
Refractometer, 1951-1975
Box 10 Folder 4
Relation of salinity to electrical conductivity, 1981
Box 10 Folder 5
Rotating valve
Box 10 Folder 6
Seafloor Voltage Monitoring of Ocean Circulation - NSF proposal, 1987-1991
Box 10 Folder 7
Silica gel preparation, 1992
Box 10 Folder 8
Silicon, 1984-1992
Box 10 Folder 9
Single pole high pass filter
Box 10 Folder 10
Skew
Box 10 Folder 11
Solar desalinate
Box 10 Folder 12-15
Spectrum data and notes, 1971-1977

Spectrum 10.2, Spectrum T4 functioning SIR, RSPEC 10.3, Cross Spectrum 10.4, AC Spectrum 10.5.

Box 10 Folder 16
Streaming potentials, 1994
Box 10 Folder 17
10x stiffening ring, 1973
Box 10 Folder 18-19
Structure and Dynamics of Capillary Waves (Michael Longuet-Higgins), 1993-1995
Box 11 Folder 1
Tilted sea
Box 11 Folder 2
Torsional oscillator, 1991
Box 11 Folder 3
Turbulence, 1985-1994
Box 11 Folder 4
Turtle Bar and Baja Pacific Trench, 1972
Box 11 Folder 5
V-Pebble, 1994
Box 11 Folder 6
Water in subduction zones
Box 11 Folder 7-8
Wave tank and spectra of slopes of ripples
Box 11 Folder 9
Zinger research materials, 1993