John McGowan Papers, 1950-2021 (MSS 846)

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Extent: 4.25 Linear feet (11 archives boxes, 1 oversized folder)

Papers of John Arthur McGowan (1924-2023), biological oceanographer and professor emeritus of oceanography in the Integrative Oceanography Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. McGowan's research concerned ocean circulation, the distribution of species, and zooplankton biomass, with a focus on monitoring the biological response to global climate change.

John McGowan: 1924-2023 by Robert Monroe for Scripps Institution of Oceanography News, 2023 March 30

Papers of John Arthur McGowan (1924-2023), biological oceanographer and professor emeritus of oceanography in the Integrative Oceanography Division at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. McGowan's research concerned ocean circulation, the distribution of species, and zooplankton biomass, with a focus on monitoring the biological response to global climate change.

Arranged in five series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) WRITINGS, 3) TEACHING FILES, 4) RESEARCH PROJECTS, and 5) PHOTOGRAPHS AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS.

Container List

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: Correspondence between McGowan and other researchers and scientific organizations regarding biological oceanographic research, ocean warming, and instruction at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Box 1 Folder 1
Arnold, James R., 1975
Box 1 Folder 2
Aron, William, 1959-1961
Box 1 Folder 3
Banko, Winston, 1964
Box 1 Folder 4
Bary, Brian M., 1963
Box 1 Folder 5
Bé, Allan W. H., 1960-1961
Box 1 Folder 6
Bekelemishev, Constantin, 1962
Box 1 Folder 7
Biogeochemistry, 1989-1990
Box 1 Folder 8
Bookhout, C. G., 1961-1962
Box 1 Folder 9
Bowman, Thomas E., 1961-1962
Box 1 Folder 10
Boxer, Barbara, Senator, 2003-2007
Box 1 Folder 11
Boycott, R. B., 1965
Box 1 Folder 12
CalCOFI Seabird Consortium, 2008
Box 1 Folder 13
California Marine Life Management Project, 2000
Box 1 Folder 14
Carefoot, Thomas, 1962
Box 1 Folder 15
Carriker, Melbourne, 1963
Box 1 Folder 16
Cassie, Morrison, 1965
Box 1 Folder 17
Castenholz, Richard, 1963
Box 1 Folder 18
Chile-America coastal monitoring program, 1989-1992
Box 1 Folder 19
Chin, Edward, 1962-1965
Box 1 Folder 20
Coastal initiative, 1998-1999
Box 1 Folder 21
Erk, Frank C., 1960
Box 1 Folder 22
Foxton, Peter, 1960-1961
Box 1 Folder 23
Garth, John S., 1960-1963
Box 1 Folder 24
Gerdts, Joan, 1963
Box 1 Folder 25
Gibbs, Robert H., 1963
Box 1 Folder 26
Gilmore, Raymond, 1961
Box 1 Folder 27
Global climate change memos, 1977-2008
Box 1 Folder 28
Glover, R. S., 1965
Box 1 Folder 29
Graduate students, 1972-1990
Box 1 Folder 30
Hand, Cadet, 1961-1965
Box 1 Folder 31
Hart, Arch D., 1960-1961
Box 1 Folder 32
Hedgpeth, Joel, 1960-1965
Box 1 Folder 33
Helfrich, Philip, 1960
Box 1 Folder 34
Horrer, Paul, 1960
Box 1 Folder 35
Iraq War - Letter to the editor, 2003
Box 1 Folder 36
Isaacs, John D., 1964-1965
Box 1 Folder 37
Jefferies, R. P. S., 1962
Box 1 Folder 38
JIMO (Joint Institutions for Marine Observations), 1994-1999
Box 1 Folder 39
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995-1996
Box 1 Folder 40
Johnson, Ralph G., 1960-1962
Box 1 Folder 41
Jones, Burt, 2007
Box 1 Folder 42
Konecky, Bronwen, 2007
Box 1 Folder 43
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Consultant agreement, 1980-1981
Box 1 Folder 44
Marine Life Research Group, 1990
Box 1 Folder 45
Natural Reserve Office, 1990
Box 1 Folder 46
NIEHS (National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences) planning meeting, 1998
Box 2 Folder 1
NOAA Climate and Global Change Program, 1989-1993
Box 2 Folder 2
Panel on Biological Oceanography, NAS-NRC, 1974
Box 2 Folder 3
Pelagic taxonomy, 1992-1993
Box 2 Folder 4
Schwartzlose, Richard, 1964
Box 2 Folder 5
Scripps Institution Zooplankton Collections, 1965
Box 2 Folder 6
Steele, John H., 1986-1988
Box 2 Folder 7
University of Arizona, 1997
Box 2 Folder 8
University of Maryland, 1981
Box 2 Folder 9
Williamson, Mark, 2005-2007
Box 2 Folder 10-11
Correspondence - Miscellaneous

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) WRITINGS: Drafts, manuscripts, notes, and figures for McGowan's research articles, talks, and reviews, particularly on zooplankton and phytoplankton populations, algal blooms, and the effects of climate change on marine life.

Box 2 Folder 12
Notes on global warming, red tides, ocean acidification, CalCOFI, 2008-2009, undated
Box 2 Folder 13-15
Research articles, 1963-2008
Box 3 Folder 1
Research articles, 2009-2015
Box 3 Folder 2-4
Conferences and workshops, 1984-2015
Box 3 Folder 5
Reviews by McGowan, 1982-2006
Box 3 Folder 6
CalCOFI Progress Report (annotated), 1953-1955
Box 3 Folder 7
The Relationship of the Distribution of the Planktonic Worm, Poeobius meseres Heath, to the Water Masses of the North Pacific, 1954-1960
Box 3 Folder 8
Trochus Handbook, 1958
Box 3 Folder 9
A New Opening-Closing Paired Zooplankton Net (McGowan and Brown), 1965
Box 3 Folder 10
Del Mar pollution, 1969
Box 3 Folder 11
Effects on Organisms, 1971
Box 3 Folder 12
Diversity-productivity hypothesis, 1974
Box 3 Folder 13
Large-Scale Interannual Physical and Biological Interaction in the California Current (Chelton, Bernal, and McGowan), 1981
Box 4 Folder 1
The California El Niño 1983, 1984
Box 4 Folder 2
Martin W. Johnson, 1893-1984, 1984
Box 4 Folder 3
Phytoplankton Pigment Patterns (Peláez and McGowan), 1986
Box 4 Folder 4
Manuscript for The Earth in Transition, Patterns and Processes of Biotic Impoverishment , 1988
Box 4 Folder 5
Ocean Science Board speech, 1989
Box 4 Folder 6-7
Scales of Variability of Sewage-Influenced Water Column Properties in the Southern California Bight (McGowan, Mullin, and Conversi), 1989-1991
Box 4 Folder 8
Thirteen Real Facts About the California Current, 1993
Box 4 Folder 9-11
Community Ecology of the Central Gyre of the North Pacific (McGowan and Venrick), 1993-1998
Box 4 Folder 12
Climate Change and Zooplankton Abundance, 1994
Box 4 Folder 13
Long-term Decrease in Zooplankton Abundance off California (Roemmich and McGowan), 1994-1995
Box 4 Folder 14
W. E. Allen - Notes and correspondence, 1995-2005
Box 11 Folder 1-2
Climate-ocean Variability and Ecosystem Response in the North Pacific (Shore Station draft) (McGowan, Cayan and Dorman), 1997-1998
Box 5 Folder 1-2
Ocean Studies (McGowan and Field), 1999-2000
Box 5 Folder 3
Biological Oceanography at SIO - A Perspective on the Future, 2002
Box 5 Folder 4-5
PISCO report, 2003
Oversize FB-051 Folder 1
Notebook - Writing drafts, 2004-2005
Box 5 Folder 6
Frequency, Duration and Intensity of Coastal Phytoplankton Blooms in Southern California (Carter and McGowan), 2009
Box 5 Folder 7
The Structure and the Relationship of the Copepod Communities of the North and South Pacific Central Gyres (Williamson and McGowan), 2009
Box 5 Folder 8
Power Plant Monitoring Detects Long-Term, Climate-Driven Changes in Coastal Fishes (Miller and McGowan), 2011-2012
Box 5 Folder 9
Notebook - Gelatinous Plankton in the California Current (McDaniel and McGowan), 2012-2013
Box 5 Folder 10
Harmful Algal Bloom Guide, 2013
Box 6 Folder 1
Cal Current summary

TEACHING FILES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) TEACHING FILES: Syllabi, correspondence, exam questions and notes for courses in marine ecology taught by McGowan at SIO and CICESE.

Box 6 Folder 2
Marine Zooplankton, CICESE, 1978
Box 6 Folder 3
Biological Oceanography Curricular Group, 1974-1986
Box 6 Folder 4
SIO 269: North Pacific Nutrient Transport (Hamme seminar), 2004
Box 6 Folder 5
SIO 270: Pelagic Ecology, 1974-1982
Box 6 Folder 6
SIO 280: Marine Communities and Environments, 1981-1988

RESEARCH PROJECTS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) RESEARCH PROJECTS: Data, notes, correspondence, proposals, reports, and figures for McGowan's research, particularly for CalCOFI, the SIO Shore Station Program, Palau reef ecology, and coastal algal blooms.

Box 6 Folder 7-8
Proposals, 1990-2010
Box 6 Folder 9-17
CalCOFI - Plans/preparation, procedures, data, cruises, and committee, 1950-2000
Box 6 Folder 18-21
Historic sea surface temperature data
Box 7 Folder 1
Pier sampling program, 1985
Box 7 Folder 2
Pier diversity and other dominance - Diatom vs. dino, red tides, 2012
Box 7 Folder 3
Recurrent groups - Transpac, Troll, and POFI-5, 1950-1955
Box 7 Folder 4
Poeobius data, 1950-1958
Box 7 Folder 5
Fisheries Biology - Notebook, 1956-1957
Box 7 Folder 6-7
Trochus studies and conservation, 1956-1957
Box 11 Folder 3
Trochus size-weight study, 1956
Box 7 Folder 8-9
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands - Notebook, with rough sketches of Palau Reef profile, 1956-1958
Box 7 Folder 10
Deep Tow Exp., 1959-1960
Box 7 Folder 11
International Indian Ocean Expedition, 1959-1965
Box 8 Folder 1
International Indian Ocean Expedition, 1961
Box 8 Folder 2-3
Mouth size series, 1962
Box 8 Folder 4
Ursa Major pelagic mollusk counts (T. Moutiers), 1964
Box 8 Folder 5
Squid, 1964-1965
Box 8 Folder 6
Climax II bodycount, 1969
Box 8 Folder 7-8
Central Gyre Study (McGowan and Venrick), 1971-1980
Box 8 Folder 9
Coos Bay plankton study, 1973
Box 9 Folder 1-3
Gag Island oceanographic survey - Reports, data, and photographs, 1973-1974
Box 9 Folder 4
Taft coherence, 1974
Box 9 Folder 5-6
Cal Current data, 1974-1995
Box 9 Folder 7
PRPOOS (Plankton Rate Processes in the Oligotrophic Oceans), 1981-1994
Box 9 Folder 8
Satellite photos and sea surface temperatures, 1981-2000
Box 9 Folder 9
MOCNESS (Multiple Opening/Closing Net Environmental Sensing System), 1982
Box 9 Folder 10-12
Pier chlorophyll, 1983-2000
Box 9 Folder 13
Hayward's Cal Current updated, 1987
Box 9 Folder 14
ENSO (El Niño Southern Oscillation), 1990
Box 9 Folder 15-18
Shore stations and coastal monitoring, 1992-2000
Box 9 Folder 19
SIO pier revamp, 1994-1995
Box 10 Folder 1
Transmissometer, 1998-2000
Box 10 Folder 2
Pier proposal, 2000
Box 10 Folder 3
The Living Machine (documentary) - Notes, 2002
Box 10 Folder 4
Swan Song, 2004
Box 10 Folder 5
Roemmich-McGowan update, 2005-2006
Box 10 Folder 6
Coastal bloom dynamics, 2007
Box 10 Folder 7
Stratification, 2007
Box 10 Folder 8
Parnell plots, 2009
Box 10 Folder 9-10
SCCOOS (Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System), 2010-2021
Box 10 Folder 11-12
Biomass Lab, 2011-2012
Box 10 Folder 13
Algal bloom simulation, 2013
Box 10 Folder 14
Stommel diagrams, 2013
Box 10 Folder 15-16
Figures and transparencies - The Big Picture, ocean status

PHOTOGRAPHS AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) PHOTOGRAPHS AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: Photographs of McGowan and other oceanographers during the Tasaday XI oceanographic expedition, and a videorecorded interview of McGowan on CalCOFI research.

Box 10 Folder 17
Tasaday XI: The Story of an Expedition, 1974

Album with photographs of researchers and oceanographic equipment, and a poem by M.M.M.

Box 11 Folder 4
UCSD Conversations - Interviews with Daniel Hallin, Ernest Silva, and John McGowan. UCSD-TV (VHS, 59:37 minutes), 1995 April 18

1) Daniel Hallin of the UCSD Communication Department interviewed by Patrick Ledden on the role of the media during the Vietnam War. 2) Ernest Silva of the UCSD Visual Arts Department discusses Cora's Rain House at the San Diego Children's Museum. 3) John McGowan of Scripps Institution of Oceanography interviewed by Rich Wargo on CalCOFI research and the decline of plankton in the Southern California ocean from the 1950s to the 1990s.