Walter Munk Papers, 1908-2007 (SMC 17)

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Restrictions: Original media formats in Series 13) AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS are restricted. Viewing/listening copies may be available for researchers.

Extent: 32.4 Linear feet (77 archives boxes, 1 flat box, and 2 map case folders)

Digital Content

Some photographs and Munk's slide collection are only available in digital format; these, and access copies of sound and moving image recordings are available on the UC San Diego Library Digital Collections website.

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Papers of Walter H. Munk (1917-2019), distinguished physical oceanographer and professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. The collection documents Munk's scientific career and some of the subject areas where he was an influential theorist, including wave forecasting and acoustic tomography.

Two short, excellent biographies of Walter Munk are available online:

UC San Diego obituary

Biographical essay by Deborah Day, former SIO Archivist.

Papers of Walter H. Munk (1917-2019), distinguished physical oceanographer and professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. The collection documents Munk's scientific career and some of the subject areas where he was an influential theorist, including wave forecasting and acoustic tomography. It includes: correspondence; an incomplete assortment of Munk's writings and lectures; collaborative research with Harald Sverdrup and the U.S. Navy on wave forecasting during World War II, including drafts of reports and photographic prints of waves and coastlines; Munk's files from government consulting (JASON and the National Research Council); and Munk's papers on UC San Diego, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP).

The bulk of the collection was donated to the Library in 1987, a few years after Munk's retirement from the University in 1982. Although he stayed professionally active until his death in 2019, only one additional group of papers were donated in 1996, along with several small accruals of audiovisual recordings, photographs and slides. There are gaps in subject documentation, and parts of the collection are not comprehensive. For example, there is relatively little material, particularly correspondence, research files, or photographic portraits, documenting Munk's first three decades at SIO from 1939 through 1969.

Arranged in thirteen series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) WAVE FORECASTING, 4) WRITINGS AND TALKS, 5) EVENTS, CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS, 6) NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, 7) ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY, 8) SUBJECT/RESEARCH FILES, 9) UC SAN DIEGO, 10) IGPP, 11) WORKS BY OTHERS, 12) PHOTOGRAPHS, and 13) AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS.

Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate Project Records, SAC 32. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Roger Revelle Papers, SMC 6. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

For additional photographs of Dr. Munk, see: SIO Photographs Collection, SMC 59. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Container List

BIOGRAPHICAL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL: The series begins with a group of folders containing copies of documents obtained by SIO Archivist Deborah Day, at Munk's behest, from the FBI and Department of Defense regarding his government security clearance and background checks in the 1940s and 1950s. These documents provide a thorough account of Munk's early years and include brief, redacted interviews with colleagues and acquaintances. The series continues in approximate chronological order with biographical supporting documentation, such as files on Munk's appointments at Scripps and UC San Diego (including recruitment correspondence), short interviews and profiles, birthday materials, and a consolidated section of awards at the end.

Walter Munk Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) security clearance files

Box 1 Folder 1
SIO Archivist memo, 2001
Box 1 Folder 2
Army FOIA documents
Box 1 Folder 3-4
Defense Investigative Service FOIA documents
Box 1 Folder 5
Department of Justice - INS FOIA documents
Box 1 Folder 6-7
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) FOIA documents
Box 1 Folder 8
FBI - San Diego, FOIA documents
Box 1 Folder 9
Navy FOIA documents
Box 1 Folder 10
Columbia University transcript, 1937
Box 1 Folder 11
Announcement of the final examination for the PhD of Walter Munk, UC Graduate Division, Southern Section, 1946
Box 2 Folder 1-4
Annual supplement to UC bio-bibliography forms, 1947-1995
Box 2 Folder 5
Academic appointment and recruitment correspondence, 1954-1968
Box 2 Folder 6
Autobiographical statements for McGraw Hill, 1966-1979
Box 2 Folder 7
List of Walter Munk's talks and lectures, 1968-1982
Box 2 Folder 8
"The music of the tides" - Profile on Munk and deep sea capsule research by unidentified author, ca. 1968
Box 2 Folder 9
Oral history transcript with corrections - Interview by Robert Calvert, Texas A & M University, 1976
Box 2 Folder 10
Short interviews and profiles, ca. 1980
Box 2 Folder 11
Clippings and publicity, ca. 1980-1993
Box 2 Folder 12
Memo from Claude ZoBell to Betty Shor re: Munk's claim to be sole SIO 1939-47 graduate student, 1980 March 20
Box 2 Folder 13
65th birthday - "The luck of Walter Munk, " essay by Roger Revelle, 1982
Box 2 Folder 14
65th birthday - Correspondence, 1982
Box 2 Folder 15-16
65th birthday - Symposium, 1982

Includes photographs.

Box 3 Folder 1
"Walter Munk and his 3-D ocean" - Draft profile on Munk by unidentified author, ca. 1984
Box 3 Folder 2
Dept. of Defense questionnaire, 1992
Box 3 Folder 3
75th birthday party - Invitation, 1992
Oversize FB-424 Folder 11
75th birthday - "The Still Cresting Wave" poster, 1992
Box 3 Folder 4-6
80th birthday - Cards, 1997
Box 3 Folder 7
80th birthday, Celebration in Geophysics and Oceanography materials; and 90th birthday program, 1997, 2007
Box 3 Folder 8
Bibliography, including tomography contributions, 1999
Oversize Annex MC-006-03
90th birthday poster-sized card, 2007

Awards and Recognition

Box 3 Folder 9
Miscellaneous awards and certificates, 1945-1994
Oversize FB-424 Folder 11
Miscellaneous awards and certificates - Oversize

California State Assembly resolution commending Dr. Walter H. Munk for his service as a member of the Assembly Science and Technology Advisory Council (1970); Walter Munk Award certificate (1994); Presentation of Walter Munk Award to Dr. Stephen Thorpe (1997).

Box 3 Folder 10
California Scientist of the Year, 1969
Box 3 Folder 16
University of Bergen honorary doctorate, 1975
Box 3 Folder 11
Maurice Ewing Award, 1976
Box 3 Folder 12
U.S. Navy Captain Conrad Award for Scientific Achievement, 1978
Box 3 Folder 13-14
Fulbright Award, Cambridge University - Sabbatical, 1980-1981
Box 3 Folder 15
National Medal of Science, 1985
Box 4 Folder 1
National Medal of Science - Correspondence, 1985
Box 4 Folder 2
William Bowie Medal, with remarks, 1989
Box 4 Folder 3
Vetlesen Award, 1993
Box 4 Folder 4
ARCS Scientist of the Year Award and talk, 1993
Box 4 Folder 5
Inamori Foundation Kyoto Prize - Schedules, ephemera and notes, 1999
Box 4 Folder 6-8
Inamori Foundation Kyoto Prize - Correspondence, 1998-2000
Box 4 Folder 9
Inamori Foundation Kyoto Prize - Photographs, 1999

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE. Correspondence is arranged as it was when it was donated by Munk, in two subseries: A) A-Z, and B) Chronological. It is possible that letters from a single correspondent may be found in both subseries. Given the exceptional length of Munk's career and his decades of close collaboration with other scientists, the correspondence collected here is not comprehensive. However, additional correspondence (including print-outs of emails) can be found in other series where it was filed by Munk among related materials, particularly in the NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY, and UC SAN DIEGO series.

A) Alphabetical (A-Z): Arranged by surname of the correspondent, or in some cases, topic of the correspondence (an example is the Carl Eckart files, which contain more letters about the Eckart estate and memorial arrangements than letters directly exchanged between Munk and Eckart). Highlights of the alphabetical correspondence includes Munk's letters with Henry Stommel, Harald Sverdrup, Cecil Green, William Nierenberg, the American Miscellaneous Society (AMSOC), and two folders of letters sent by UC San Diego chancellors.

B) Chronological: The chronological correspondence files begin in earnest in 1980, with only a handful of letters written before that date. It includes both incoming correspondence and carbon copies of Munk's outgoing replies.

Alphabetical (A-Z)

Box 5 Folder 1
Abelson, Philip, 1985
Box 5 Folder 2
Acoustical Oceanography Group, 1990-1991
Box 5 Folder 3
Acoustical Society of America, 1975
Box 5 Folder 4
Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), ca.1960
Box 5 Folder 5
American Academy of Arts and Science, 1971-1980
Box 5 Folder 6
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs (CAIP), 1985
Box 5 Folder 7
American Geophysical Union (AGU) - General correspondence, 1965-1988
Box 5 Folder 8
AGU - Nomination of John Orcutt for M. Ewing Medal, 1993
Box 5 Folder 9
American Meteorological Society, 1970, 1994
Box 5 Folder 10-15
American Miscellaneous Society (AMSOC), 1960-1990

Includes folder on Michèle Fieux, Albatross Laureate.

Box 5 Folder 16
American Philosophical Society, 1963-1983
Box 5 Folder 17
Anastasion, Steven N. (re: Doherty Lecture), 1989
Box 5 Folder 18
Annual review of Earth and Planetary Sciences editorial board re: Henry Stommel Anniversary Volume, 1978-1980
Box 5 Folder 19
Arrhenius, Gustaf, 1968, 1973
Box 5 Folder 20
Asmus, John, 1963-1978
Box 6 Folder 1
Backus, George, 1966-1995
Box 6 Folder 2
Baker, James, 1990-1996
Box 6 Folder 3
Baker, Mark, 1982-1985
Box 6 Folder 4
Barger, James E., 1978-1982
Box 6 Folder 5
Barnett, Tim, 1983-1985
Box 6 Folder 6
Bates, Charles (Naval Oceanographic Office), 1968
Box 6 Folder 7
Beebe, Mary (Stuart Collection and Committee on External Art), 1983-1986
Box 6 Folder 8
Bennett, Andrew and David Cartwright, 1983
Box 6 Folder 9
Bezdek, Hugo, 1982-1990
Box 6 Folder 10
Birch Aquarium, 2000-2001
Box 6 Folder 11
Bradner, Hugh, 1971-1982
Box 6 Folder 12
Brown, Michael, 1978-1996
Box 6 Folder 13
Brunno, Franco (cousin of Walter Munk), 1987-1991
Box 6 Folder 14-15
Bullard, Edward, 1967-1980
Box 6 Folder 16
California Institute of Technology, 1966
Box 6 Folder 17
Cambridge University Press re: Edits to new edition of The Rotation of the Earth , 1974-1975
Box 6 Folder 18
Campbell, William re: Nelly Mognard, 1982
Box 6 Folder 19
Carrier, George, 1954-1973
Box 7 Folder 1
Charnock, Henry re: Wave forecasting with Sverdrup, 1976-1986
Box 7 Folder 2
Committee on Climate Change and the Ocean (CCCO), 1989
Box 7 Folder 3
Cook, A. H. re: Commemorative service for Sir Edward Bullard, 1980
Box 7 Folder 4
Cosmos Club, 1977-1993
Box 7 Folder 5
Craig, Harmon re: Award nominations for Hans Suess, 1991

Includes letter by Roger Revelle.

Box 7 Folder 6
CSIRO, Australia, 1981-1982
Box 7 Folder 7
Dashen, Roger re: Joint U.S.-Canadian experiment on SAR imaging on Georgia Strait, 1983
Box 7 Folder 8
Day, Deborah re: Edits to Day's account of Roger Revelle, 1984
Box 7 Folder 9
deGroot-Hedlin, Catherine, 1993
Box 7 Folder 10
di Sciara, Giuseppe, 1984-1988

Includes planning correspondence for Cambridge Honorary Degree.

Box 7 Folder 11
Doel, Ron re: Munk oral history, 1998
Box 7 Folder 12
Dworski, George, 1990-1994
Box 7 Folder 13
Eckart, Carl - Retirement, memorial and estate, 1969-1974
Box 7 Folder 14
Emery, W. J., 1982-1984
Box 7 Folder 15
Fisher, Robert re: Roger Revelle, 1991
Box 7 Folder 16
Flatté, Stanley M. re: Fluctuations of Sound Transmission in the Sea , 1975
Box 7 Folder 17
Fofonoff, Nicholas, 1970
Box 7 Folder 18
Forbes, Andrew, 1989-1996
Box 7 Folder 19
Gaffney, Paul G., 2000
Box 7 Folder 20
Gagosian, Richard re: Henry Stommel Medal, 1999
Box 7 Folder 21
Gardner, David Pierpont, 1985
Box 7 Folder 22
Garrett, Christopher, 1975-1992
Box 7 Folder 23
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (editorial board, editor Paul Roberts), 1976-1978
Box 7 Folder 24
Georges, T. M. (Wave Propagation Lab, NOAA), 1987
Box 7 Folder 25
Georgevic, Robert, 1979
Box 7 Folder 26
Gill, Adrian, 1982-1988
Box 7 Folder 27
Godfrey, Stuart and Elizabeth, 1984
Box 7 Folder 28
Goldberg, Ed, 1980-1987
Box 8 Folder 1-9
Green, Cecil, 1960-1980
Box 8 Folder 10-11
Green Foundation, 1982-1985
Box 9 Folder 1-2
Green Foundation, 1986-1989
Box 9 Folder 3
Groves, Gordon, 1964-1983
Box 9 Folder 4-5
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1947-1952
Box 9 Folder 6
Hackett, Edward (NSF, re: Rainger's Revelle proposal), 1996
Box 9 Folder 7
Hall, Anita, 1983
Box 9 Folder 8
Hasselman, Klaus (Max-Planck Institut), 1980-1992
Box 9 Folder 9
Hitch, Charles, 1969-1971
Box 9 Folder 10
Hollister, Charles, 1986
Box 9 Folder 11
Huppert, Herbert E. (re: Australia National University), 1991
Box 9 Folder 12
Inamori, Kazuo, 2000

Includes photograph.

Box 9 Folder 13
Isaacs, Mary Carol (re: John Dove Isaacs Chair in Natural Philosophy and AMSOC award), 1982-1983
Box 9 Folder 14-17
JASON, 1974-1983
Box 10 Folder 1-3
JASON, 1984-2001
Box 10 Folder 4
Jones, James, 1983
Box 10 Folder 5
Keeling, Ralph, 1999
Box 10 Folder 6
Kennedy, John and Timothy Shriver, 1975
Box 10 Folder 7
Kennel, Charles, 1998-2005
Box 10 Folder 8
Kerr, Clark, 1959-1996
Box 10 Folder 9
Keynes, Richard O., 1992
Box 10 Folder 10
Knox, Robert, 1985-1986
Box 10 Folder 11
Kvammen, Ken (re: Han Li Mao), 1998
Box 10 Folder 12
LaFond, Eugene (re: Exodus and red sea tides), 1972
Box 10 Folder 13
Lancaster, Justin, 1981-1994
Box 10 Folder 14
Lazier, John (re: plankton distribution), 1988-1989
Box 10 Folder 15
Ledwell, Jim, 1999
Box 10 Folder 16
Loder, Anthony c/o Peter Y. Hong, Los Angeles Times re: Hedy Lamarr, 1997
Box 10 Folder 17
Luther, Douglas, 2001
Box 10 Folder 18
Mandelbrot, Benoit B., 1975
Box 10 Folder 19
Marine Technology Society, 1978-1985
Box 10 Folder 20
Marqueze, R. (French Syndicate, America's Cup), 1994
Box 10 Folder 21
McKisic, Mike, 1985
Box 10 Folder 22-23
Mikolajewics, Uwe (ATOC), 1990-1995
Box 11 Folder 1
Miles, John, 1982-1994
Box 11 Folder 2
Miller, Jack C., 1977-1984
Box 11 Folder 3
Moncur, Rex (Director, Antarctic Division), 1989
Box 11 Folder 4-5
Monin, Andrei S., 1969-1992

Includes correspondence relating to publication of Monin's book, Earth's Rotation and Climate.

Box 11 Folder 6
Moore, Dennis, 1968-1970
Box 11 Folder 7
Morawitz, Werner, 1989-1995
Box 11 Folder 8
Most, Nathan, 1995
Box 11 Folder 9
Munk, Alfred Otto (brother) re: James Schlesinger, 2000
Box 11 Folder 10
Murray, Bruce, 1982
Box 11 Folder 11
National Academy of Sciences re: "Ocean Engineering in the Federal Government" report review, 1980
Box 11 Folder 12
National Science Board re: Roger Revelle receiving Vannevar Bush Award, 1984
Box 11 Folder 13
Naval Underwater Systems Center, New London, CT, 1979
Box 11 Folder 14
Nierenberg, William A., 1968-1993
Box 11 Folder 15
Nystuen, Jeffrey A., 1982-1989
Box 11 Folder 16
O'Conner, John, 1983
Box 11 Folder 17
Patrinos, Aristides, 1991-1992
Box 11 Folder 18
Penner, Sol, 1968
Box 11 Folder 19
Phi Beta Kappa, 1988
Box 11 Folder 20
Planeix, J.M. re: ISSC '88 meeting, 1987
Box 11 Folder 21
Pleass, Charles M., 1976-1977
Box 11 Folder 22
Powers, Dennis, 1993
Box 11 Folder 23
President's Committee on the National Medal of Science, 1995
Box 11 Folder 24
Press, Frank, 1959-1977
Box 12 Folder 1
Radok, Rainer, 1965-1976
Box 12 Folder 2
Raleigh, Barry re: Continental Margins Workshop, 1987
Box 12 Folder 3
Rausing, Hans, 1999
Box 12 Folder 4
Rehder, Harald (Smithsonian Institution), 1970
Box 12 Folder 5-10
Revelle, Roger, 1942-1991
Box 12 Folder 11
Romm, Joseph, 1984-1987
Box 12 Folder 12
Rossby, H. Thomas, 1975
Box 12 Folder 13
Royal Astronomical Society, London, 1983
Box 12 Folder 15
Runcorn, S. Keith, 1963-1969
Box 12 Folder 14
The Royal Society, London, 1976-1980
Box 12 Folder 16
Ryan, Paul (ed. Oceanus), 1984
Box 12 Folder 17
San Diego Museum of Man, 1971
Box 12 Folder 18
Sanford, Thomas B., 1984
Box 12 Folder 19
Savit, Carl H., 1988
Box 12 Folder 20
Schauer, Charles and Peggy, 1979
Box 12 Folder 21
Send, Uwe, 1995-1996
Box 12 Folder 22
Shrock, Robert re: "Spring Stirring" diorite by D. Hord, 1985
Box 12 Folder 23
Singer, S. Fred re: Revelle Cosmos controversy, 1992, 1999
Box 12 Folder 24
Società Italiana di Fisica, 1979
Box 12 Folder 25
Spiess, Fred, 1985-1987
Box 12 Folder 26
Sproul, Robert G., 1953-1956
Box 12 Folder 27
Stevens, Raymond, 1979
Box 13 Folder 1
Stewart, R. W., Symposium in honor of - Planning, 1990
Box 13 Folder 2
Stewart, Robert H., 1975-1989
Box 13 Folder 14
Stommel Memorial Fund, 1994-1995
Box 13 Folder 15-16
Sverdrup, Harald, 1948-1957
Box 13 Folder 17-19
Sverdrup family, 1958-1980
Box 14 Folder 1
Taufa' ahau Tupou IV, Tonga, 1993
Box 14 Folder 2
Texas A & M University, 1982-1983
Box 14 Folder 3
Thursday Club, 1986-1987
Box 14 Folder 4
Tukey, John, 1959-1966, 1985
Box 14 Folder 5
Twelve-Thirty Club of La Jolla, 1986
Box 14 Folder 6-7
UC San Diego Chancellor correspondence, 1967-2006
Box 14 Folder 8
U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Oceanography, 1983
Box 14 Folder 9
U.S. Navy and Medea, 1984
Box 14 Folder 10
U.S. Navy. Defense Science Board of ASW, 1980, 1990
Box 14 Folder 11
U.S. Navy. Naval Research Advisory Committee, Ocean Science and Technology Task Force, 1979-1981
Box 14 Folder 12
U.S. Navy. Naval Research Advisory Committee, Visiting Committee, 1995-1997
Box 14 Folder 13
U.S. Navy. ONR correspondence, 1975-1979
Box 14 Folder 14
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, 1984
Box 14 Folder 15
University of Alaska, Fairbanks - Chapman Lecture, 1994
Box 14 Folder 16
Wadhams, Peter, 1988-1992
Box 14 Folder 17
Wallich, Henry C., 1979
Box 14 Folder 18
Washburn, Wilcomb E. re: Revelle/Singer Cosmos controversy, and Cosmos Club, 1995
Box 14 Folder 19
Welander, Pierre, 1958-1971
Box 14 Folder 20
Weiss, Ray, 1988
Box 14 Folder 21
Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Oceanic Division, 1967-1979
Box 14 Folder 22
Whitcomb, James H. (ISTAC, Inc.) re: seafloor positioning, 1984-1985
Box 15 Folder 1
Wilcox, Howard A. (Naval Ocean Systems Center), 1982

Includes copies of Wilcox's publications and technical memoranda on underwater acoustics.

Box 15 Folder 2
Wimbush, Mark, 1969-1976
Box 15 Folder 3
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1966-1973
Box 15 Folder 4
Woods, John
Box 15 Folder 5
Wunsch, Carl

Additional correspondence with Wunsch may be found in the WRITINGS and ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY series within related files.

Box 15 Folder 6
Wynn, Walter, 1977-1984
Box 15 Folder 7
Wyrtki, Klaus re: sea level data and Chandler wobble, 1986
Box 15 Folder 8
Yunwu, Li (VP, Institute of Oceanographic Instrumentation, National Bureau of Oceanography, China), 1982
Box 15 Folder 9-12
Zetler, Bernard, 1961-1991

Chronological

Box 15 Folder 13
1963, 1968-1979
Box 15 Folder 14-16
1980 January-June
Box 16
1980 July-1982 August
Box 17
1982 September-1984 October
Box 18
1984 November-1986 June
Box 19
1986 July-1988 February
Box 20
1988 March-1990 June
Box 21
1990 July-1992 June
Box 22
1992 July-2001

WAVE FORECASTING

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) WAVE FORECASTING: During World War II, Walter Munk and Harald Sverdrup conducted research for the Department of Defense and Hydrographic Office (HO), investigating the problem of accurate wave forecasting to support proposed Allied amphibious landings off the North African coast. Their first report, Wind waves and swell, a basic theory for forecasting was printed in 1943. It was the basis for HO 601, Wind, sea and swell: Theory of relations for forecasting (1947), which became the classic reference for the subject. This series includes preliminary, typescript reports and training materials from the SIO wave research program, reports from parallel programs at WHOI, and photographic plates of waves, beaches and coastlines taken at the various measuring stations. It also includes some photographs of training exercises for LCVP landing craft.

Arranged in three subseries: A) SIO Wave Project, B) WHOI Wave Project, and C) Photographs.

SIO Wave Project

Box 23 Folder 1
Program for wave measurements proposed by Hydrographic Office, U.S. Navy at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Woods Hole - Proposal, memoranda, etc., 1943-1944
Box 23 Folder 2
Growth of wind waves - Figures
Box 23 Folder 3
Wind, Waves and Swell - Memoranda, drafts and corrections with Sverdrup, 1942-1944

Includes research on group velocity, decay of surface waves, wave trains, "the state of the sea," and damping of waves by oil.

Box 23 Folder 4
Wind, Waves and Swell (index and parts A-E, incomplete)
Box 23 Folder 5
Indices to SIO Wave Project reports
Box 23 Folder 6
Volume 1: Beach Erosion - Index and reports

Includes reports 40 and 46 on longshore currents; missing report 38, Effect of wave refraction on breaker heights.

Box 23 Folder 7
Volume 2: Breakers and Surf - Index

The collection is lacking the following Volume 2 reports: 9. Transformation of waves in shallow water: Introduction; and 24. Effect of bottom slope along SIO pier.

Box 23 Folder 8
Vol. 2, Report 13. Waves in shallow water
Box 23 Folder 9
Vol. 2, Report 9. The transformation of waves in shallow water
Box 23 Folder 10
Vol. 2, Reports 16 and 17. Waves in shallow water
Box 23 Folder 11
Vol. 2, Report 27. Observed changes in wave heights from deep to shallow water
Box 23 Folder 12
Vol. 2, Report 8. Height of breakers and depth at breaking: Preliminary report on results obtained at La Jolla and comparison with South Beach data and B.E.B tank results
Box 23 Folder 13
Vol. 2, Report 47. Height of breakers and depth of breaking: A re-examination of all available field and laboratory data
Box 23 Folder 14
Vol. 2, Report 6. Transformation of waves in shallow water: Theoretical aspect
Box 23 Folder 15
Vol. 2, Report 7. Discussion of wave observations: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, February 21 1944, Munk and Edmondson
Box 23 Folder 16
Vol. 2, Report 14. Transformation of waves in shallow water, part 2: Breaking of waves on gently sloping beaches
Box 23 Folder 17
Vol. 2, Report 43. New instructions for use of Plate III, H.O. 234
Box 23 Folder 18
Vol. 2, Report 49. Supplement to Breakers and Surf: Principles of forecasting
Box 23 Folder 19
Volume 3: The Boundary Layer - Index and parts 1-7

Missing report 24. Surface wind velocity and sea-air temperature difference.

Box 24 Folder 1
Volume 4: Depth Determination - Index and parts A-R
Box 24 Folder 2
Volume 5: Instruments and Observations - Index and parts 1A-7A
Box 24 Folder 3
Volume 5: Instruments and Observations (index and parts 8A-9A)
Box 24 Folder 4
Volume 6: Refraction, Diffraction, Laboratory: Landing Craft Characteristics
Box 24 Folder 5
Volume 7: Sea and Swell Codes, Miscellany (index and parts 1-11)
Box 24 Folder 6
Confidential papers issued to Navy classes in sea and swell forecasting (index and parts A-Q, incomplete), 1945
Box 24 Folder 7
Memorandum on a permanent swell recorder station at the Scripps Institution, 1945, 1948

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Reports

Box 25 Folder 1
WHOI reports index

Reports prepared by G. L. Clarke and W. T. Edmondson for Navy Bureau of Ships contract Nobs 17483.

Box 25 Folder 2
Photographic method for the measurements of surf (preliminary report), 1944 December 1
Box 25 Folder 3
Photographs of surf taken simultaneously from the ground and from the air during November and December 1944, 1945 January 10
Box 25 Folder 4
Aerial photographs of measured surf conditions, 1945 February 1
Box 25 Folder 5
Photographs of surf taken simultaneously from the ground and from the air during February 1945, 1945 March 15
Box 25 Folder 6
Photographic illustrations of the Steere Surf Code, 1945 April 15
Box 25 Folder 7
Steere Surf Code - Photographic plates 1-50, 1945 April 15
Box 25 Folder 8
Steere Surf Code - Photographic plates 51-115, 1945 April 15

Photographs

Box 25 Folder 9
Beach scenes - Setting up measuring stations, landing vehicles, etc., ca. 1939-1948
Box 25 Folder 10
Gifford Ewing - Aerial shots of breaking waves, impulsive trains, and the sea surface
Box 25 Folder 11
Beach breakers, primarily La Jolla, ca. 1945-1947
Box 25 Folder 12
LCVP landing craft training, 1944 June
Box 25 Folder 13
Air at sea surface
Box 25 Folder 14
Aerial shots of bays, 1945
Box 26 Folder 1
Oregon coastline, 1945
Box 26 Folder 2
Farallon Islands, aerial views, 1945
Box 26 Folder 3
Aerial views of Redondo Beach
Box 26 Folder 4
Aerial views of La Jolla coastline, 1944-1945
Box 26 Folder 5
Aerial views of La Jolla coastline, taken by or for Sverdrup, 1944 October 6
Box 26 Folder 6
Aerial views, miscellaneous, 1944-1946
Box 26 Folder 7
Aerial views of coastlines with submarine ridges, 1944-1946
Box 26 Folder 8
Aerial views of wave refraction on beaches and headlands, 1944-1945
Oversize MC-138-05
Panorama double-print of the SIO pier from directly above, 1944 June 2

WRITINGS AND TALKS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) WRITINGS AND TALKS: A selection of Munk's manuscript and typescript drafts of writings for publication, and lectures and/or public remarks. The writings are not comprehensive and do not include drafts of some important works. Munk often delivered remarks from roughly sketched outlines; a few additional outlines for public presentations can be found in the next series, embedded within his travel files for events, conferences and meetings (and are noted where they occur). Materials are arranged chronologically.

Box 27 Folder 1
Increase in the period of waves traveling over large distances: With applications to tsunamis, swell, and seismic surface waves - Dissertation for degree Doctor of Philosophy in Physical Oceanography, 1946 October
Box 27 Folder 2
Putnam, Munk, and Traylor. The prediction of longshore currents, 1948 May

Wave Report no. 74, Hydrographic Office of Naval Research contract N6ori-111. Includes wave refraction figures.

Box 27 Folder 3
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup: An appreciation / In memoriam, 1948, 1957
Box 27 Folder 4
Munk, Pierson, and Arthur. Convergence of wave energy along a refracted ray, 1950
Box 27 Folder 5
Munk and Gordon Groves. A note on decompression for Aqua-lung divers, ca. 1951
Box 27 Folder 6
Technical report ONRL-94-54. Oceanographic and Earth's Interior Program at the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics meeting, Rome, Italy, 1954 October 22
Box 27 Folder 7
Munk, Miller, Snodgrass and Barber. Directional recording of swell from distant storms, 1963
Box 27 Folder 8
Munk and Cartwright. Tidal spectroscopy and prediction (photocopy with annotations), 1966
Box 27 Folder 9
Eulogy for Donal Hord, 1966 July
Box 27 Folder 10
Low-frequency tail of the ocean wave spectrum (abstract). Presented at 6th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Washington, D.C., 1966 September-October
Box 27 Folder 11-12
Gallagher, B. and Munk. Tides in shallow water: Spectroscopy, 1966-1970

Published 1971. Includes correspondence and drafts.

Box 27 Folder 13
"Variability and prediction," lecture presented in Seattle, WA, 1968 January
Box 27 Folder 14
Ocean tides and waves (abstract). Paper presented at UC Centennial Symposium on Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, 1968 February 1
Box 27 Folder 15
AGU Bowie Medal citation for Roger Revelle, 1968 April
Box 27 Folder 16
Comments on UCSD, the Regents, and the students. Unitarian Church, La Jolla, 1968 December 1

Comments on Herbert Marcuse.

Box 27 Folder 17-18
Munk, Snodgrass and Wimbush. Tides off-shore: Transition from California coastal to deep-sea waters - Correspondence and data, 1968-1970

Published 1970. Correspondents include: Carl Wunsch, Gordon Groves, Steacy Hicks, Ali Nowroozi, Bernard Zetler, Maurice Ewing, and David Cartwright.

Box 28 Folder 1
Munk, Snodgrass and Wimbush. Tides off-shore: Transition from California coastal to deep-sea waters - Figures and data, 1968-1970
Box 28 Folder 2
Waves and turbulence, ca. 1970
Box 28 Folder 3
Deep-sea tides (abstract). Presented at 8th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Rome, Italy, 1970 August
Box 28 Folder 4
Concluding remarks and abstract, Joint Oceanographic Assembly on Physical Oceanography, Tokyo, Japan, 1970 September
Box 28 Folder 5-6
Garrett, Christopher and Munk. Space-time scales of internal waves - Draft and related correspondence, 1970-1972
Box 77 Folder 1
Garrett, Christopher and Munk. Space-time scales of internal waves - Data printouts (oversize), 1970-1972
Box 28 Folder 7
Irish, Munk and Snodgrass. M₂ amphidrome in the Northeast Pacific, 1971
Box 28 Folder 8
Charney, J. and Munk. The applied physical sciences. Prepared for symposium in honor of John von Neumann on "The influence of the computer on science and learning," Princeton University, 1971
Box 28 Folder 9
On Columbus O'Donnell Iselin, published in Oceanus , 1971 June
Box 28 Folder 10
Turbulence in a stratified ocean. Proceedings of a symposium at UC San Diego, 1971 July
Box 28 Folder 11
Asmus, Wuerker, and Munk. Lasers and holography in art preservation and restoration, 1972
Box 28 Folder 12
Intermittent temperature and salinity inversions by internal wave straining and their role in double-diffusion, 1972
Box 28 Folder 13
Nierenberg and Munk. Sea spectra and radar scattering. Institute for Defense Analyses, JASON Summer Study Note N-817, 1972 August
Box 28 Folder 14
Morse, Andrews and Munk. Report on exploratory development programs in the ocean sciences (Navy SysComs report), 1973
Box 28 Folder 15
Brown, Munk, Snodgrass and Zetler. Bottom pressures in the mode region, 1973 August 3
Box 28 Folder 16
Munk, Snodgrass and Zetler. Oceanography from the bottom up. Published in Naval Research Reviews , 1973 September
Box 28 Folder 17
Hendershott, Munk and Zetler. Ocean tides from SEASAT-A, 1974
Box 28 Folder 18
Citation for Sir Edward Bullard on receipt of the William Bowie medal, 1974-1975
Box 28 Folder 19
Spiess, Munk, Isaacs and Liebermann. Carl Eckart obituary, 1974-1975
Box 28 Folder 20
The painful task of measuring low-frequency geophysical processes with drifting instruments ("clock problems"), ca. 1975
Box 28 Folder 21-22
Cairns, Munk and Winant. On the dynamics of neutrally buoyant capsules: An experimental drop in Lake Tahoe, 1975-1977
Box 28 Folder 23
Oral testimony at Congressional hearings, Oceanography Subcommittee, 1975 June 4
Box 29 Folder 1
Munk and Worcester. Monitoring the ocean acoustically. Prepared for ONR's 30th anniversary publication, Science Perspectives , 1976
Box 29 Folder 2
Response to award of Maurice Ewing and Agassiz medals, 1976 April
Box 29 Folder 3
Munk and G. Williams. Acoustic oceanography, 1976-1977
Box 29 Folder 4-6
Sound transmission through a fluctuating ocean ed. Stanley M. Flatté, ca. 1976-1979

Includes extensive correspondence and drafts.

Box 29 Folder 7
Freak waves: Can they be avoided?, 1977

Includes copy of MPL report on FLIP casualty in 1969 400 miles north of Oahu.

Box 29 Folder 8
Visit to Tsingtao [China], based on notes by Jack Bryant and Walter Munk, 1977

General Scientific Delegation (1977 trip) sponsored by Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (CSCPRC).

Box 29 Folder 9
Personal diary of journey to People's Republic of China, 1977 June-July

General Scientific Delegation (1977 trip) sponsored by Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (CSCPRC).

Box 29 Folder 10
Revelle model for the CO₂ pulse associated with the industrial revolution, 1977
Box 29 Folder 11
Munk and Wunsch. Ocean acoustic tomography: A scheme for large scale monitoring, 1977-1978
Box 29 Folder 12
Global noise/10 Hz transmitter [research file] - Scientific correspondence with Douglas Webb, 1977-1986

Includes lengthy technical memoranda regarding underwater acoustics.

Box 30 Folder 1
Munk, Worcester, and Zachariasen. Scattering of sound by internal waves: The role of particle velocities, 1977-1981

Published as "Scattering of sound by internal wave currents: The relation to vertical momentum flux."

Box 30 Folder 2
Garrett, Christopher and Munk. Internal waves in the ocean, for Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics , 1978
Box 30 Folder 3
AIP volume dedication to Sir Edward Bullard, 1978
Box 30 Folder 4
Citation for Sir Edward Bullard on receipt of the Maurice Ewing Medal, 1978
Box 30 Folder 5
Sabbatical leave report - Australia; and oceanographic delegation sponsored by Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (CSCPRC), 1978 November
Box 30 Folder 6
Miscellaneous untitled lecture notes, 1978-1979
Box 30 Folder 7-8
Affairs of the sea, prefatory chapter for Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol. 8, 1979-1980

Autobiographical essay (two versions; second version includes a biographical statement and bibliography for Munk). First folder includes a letter to Bullard.

Box 30 Folder 9
Horizontal deflection of acoustic paths by mesoscale eddies, 1979
Box 30 Folder 10
Munk and Zetler. Tidal effects on long-range sound transmission - Correspondence and research notes, 1979-1980
Box 30 Folder 11
Joint venture to study ocean acoustic tomography. Presented at OARS workshop, Seattle, WA, 1980 January
Box 30 Folder 12
Internal wave spectra at the buoyant and inertial frequencies, 1980
Box 77 Folder 3
Internal wave spectra at the buoyant and inertial frequencies - Graphs and plots (oversize), 1980
Box 31 Folder 1
Oceanic variability: How not to measure it. Presented at CIMAS, University of Miami, FL, 1980

Includes transcript of discussion following lecture.

Box 31 Folder 2-3
Acoustics and ocean dynamics. Presented at Woods Hole Symposium on The Future of Oceanography, 1980
Box 31 Folder 4
Global noise/A state-switched acoustic source, 1980-1981
Box 31 Folder 5
Ocean acoustic tomography: Hybrid analysis using rays and normal modes, 1981
Box 31 Folder 6
Why is the Earth a poor timekeeper? Comments on The Earth's variable Rotation: Geophysical Courses and Consequences by Kurt Lambeck, 1981-1982
Box 31 Folder 7
Behringer, D. et al. A demonstration of ocean acoustic tomography, 1981-1982
Box 31 Folder 8
Munk and Wunsch. Observing the ocean in the 1990s, 1982
Box 31 Folder 9
Munk and Wunsch. Up/down resolution in ocean acoustic tomography, 1982
Box 31 Folder 10
Outline of Munk's IGPP retirement speech, 1982
Box 31 Folder 11
Dashen, Munk and Zachariasen. Letter to Andreassen and Harper (JASON document JSN-83-01), 1982 December
Box 31 Folder 12-13
Dashen and Munk. Three models of global ocean noise, 1982-1983
Box 77 Folder 4
Dashen and Munk. Three models of global ocean noise - Data (oversize), 1982-1983
Box 32 Folder 1
Munk and Wunsch. Ocean acoustic tomography: Rays and modes, 1982-1983
Box 32 Folder 2
Briefing on state of science and technology understanding ocean circulation, 1983 April 15
Box 32 Folder 3
Wave predictability: Short range and long range. Presented at Symposium on the Safety of Life Offshore, International Assoc. of Drilling Contractors (IADC), La Jolla, 1983
Box 32 Folder 4
Acoustic sources. Presentation at Workshop on Transducers for Acoustic Tomography, Woods Hole, 1983 August
Box 32 Folder 5
Remarks at Symposium in Honor of W. A. Nierenberg's 65th Birthday, 1983-1984

Includes supporting materials.

Box 32 Folder 6
Talk on satellite observations given at International Ocean Technology Workshop, Nantucket Island, 1984
Box 32 Folder 7
Memo on Test-Ban Treaty to Frank Press, President National Academy of Sciences, 1984 August 27
Box 32 Folder 8
Cornuelle et al. Tomographic maps of the ocean mesoscale, 1984
Box 32 Folder 9-11
Munk and Wunsch. Biases and caustics in long-range acoustic tomography, 1984-1985
Box 33 Folder 1
Methods for exploring the large scale ocean turbulence. Prepared for Symposium on Perspectives in Fluid Dynamics in honor of Hans Liepmann, Cal Tech, 1985
Box 33 Folder 2
Munk et al. Planning for the Ocean Science and Technology Directorate (JASON document JSR-85-208), 1985 July
Box 33 Folder 3
Introductory comments and rough transcript of oral history for ONR 40th Anniversary Symposium, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986
Box 33 Folder 4
Munk, Revelle, Worcester and Zumberge. Strategy for future measurements of very-low-frequency sea-level change, 1985-1989
Box 33 Folder 5
Acoustic monitoring of ocean gyres. Presented at IUTAM Symposium on Fluid Mechanics in the Spirit of G.I. Taylor, Cambridge, England, 1986
Box 33 Folder 6-7
1986 Bakerian Lecture: Munk, Scully-Power, and Zachariasen. "Ships from space," paper for the Royal Society, London, 1986-1987

Includes photographs and correspondence.

Box 33 Folder 8
1986 Bakerian Lecture: "Acoustic monitoring of ocean gyres," talk for the Royal Society, London, 1986
Box 33 Folder 9
"The IGPP mug shots: a Halloween surprise" - Notes and slides for a Geophysics Seminar on personal and architectural history of IGPP, 1986 October 31

For a recording of this talk, see the AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS series.

Box 34 Folder 1-2
Munk and Wunsch. Acoustic tomography by Hamiltonian methods including the Adiabatic Approximation, 1986-1987

Includes notes entitled, "Adiabatic case à la Wunsch."

Box 34 Folder 3
Citation for Gordon Hamilton, and luncheon remarks, Baltimore, MD, 1987
Box 34 Folder 4
Munk and Melbourne Briscoe. Sea-going measurements: Diminished by satellites and super-computers?, 1987
Box 34 Folder 5
Munk and Worcester. Ocean acoustic tomography, 1988
Box 34 Folder 6
Cornuelle, Munk and Worcester. Ocean acoustic tomography from ships, 1988
Box 34 Folder 7
Munk, O'Reilly and Reid. Australia-Bermuda sound transmission experiment (1960) revisited, 1988
Box 34 Folder 8
Munk and Forbes. Global ocean warming: An acoustic measure?, 1989
Box 34 Folder 9
Refraction of acoustic modes in very long-range transmissions, 1990
Box 34 Folder 10
The Heard Island Experiment. Inaugural lecture of the International Science Series, Washington, D.C., 1990 November 2
Box 34 Folder 11
Remarks for Roger Revelle memorial services, 1991 July
Box 34 Folder 12
Scripps Institution of Oceanography: The Revelle Years, 1991 August
Box 34 Folder 13
Untitled paper on Roger Revelle and ONR, 1991 September 25
Box 35 Folder 1
Global ocean warming. Presented at Roger Revelle Memorial Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1992 October 23-24
Box 35 Folder 2
Acoustic tomography of ocean climate. Presented at OECD Megascience Forum Expert meeting on Oceanography, Tokyo, Japan, 1993

Includes planning materials and visit to JAMSTEC.

Box 35 Folder 3-6
Ocean Acoustic Tomography - Correspondence re: comments and publication, 1994-1995
Box 35 Folder 7-8
Malone, Goldberg, and Munk. Roger Randall Dougan Revelle (NAS biographical memoir, published 1997 December), 1994-1997
Box 35 Folder 9
Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC). Presented at ASA Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1995
Box 35 Folder 10
Remarks prepared for 10th Anniversary Meeting of the OSB, Woods Hole, RI, 1995
Box 35 Folder 11
Remarks for Edward Frieman Symposium, 1996 July 26
Box 35 Folder 12
The moon and mixing: Abyssal recipes II, 1997 March-April
Box 35 Folder 13
"The changing ocean climate." Carnegie Institution lecture, Washington, D.C., 1997 April
Box 35 Folder 14
"Sampling the oceans from above and beneath." IAPSO President's Invited Lecture, 1997 June
Box 35 Folder 15
Munk and Wunsch. The moon, of course..., 1997 December
Box 36 Folder 1
Remarks on Fred Zachariasen, 2000 January 9
Box 36 Folder 2
"People, institutions, and discovery." Remarks at ONR's Oceanography: The Making of a Science colloquium, 2000 February

Includes correspondence on ocean drilling with Jerry Winterer, and historical notes on ONR/Navy support for SIO by Deborah Day. Presentation includes reminiscences on Maurice Ewing, Columbus Iselin, and Roger Revelle.

Box 36 Folder 3
"Ocean greats." Remarks, at ONR's Oceanography Greats Gala, Washington, D.C., 2000 March
Box 36 Folder 4
"Listening to climate change." Reimer Lüst Lecture, Max Planck Institute of Meteorology, 2000 March-April
Box 36 Folder 5
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup (1888-1957): Celebrating the return of the MAUD seventy-five years ago. Presented at Fram Museum, Oslo, 2000 September 21
Box 36 Folder 6
Munk et al. Monitoring the ocean acoustically: A review and strategy for the future, 2001
Box 36 Folder 7
"Tides and the climate." Remarks prepared for IAPSO/SCOR meeting, Victoria, B.C., 2004

Includes information on Otto Pettersson, Harald Sverdrup, and internal tide research.

Box 36 Folder 29
Lindberg Field transfigured (floating airport concept), 2003

EVENTS, CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) EVENTS, CONFERENCES AND MEETINGS: Munk's professional engagement files, arranged chronologically. Files include correspondence and materials relating to events and conferences, including travel itineraries, research agendas, and occasionally outlines of Munk's contributions. With one early (1962) exception, the files begin in the 1969, indicating Munk generally did not retain materials relating to professional travel and conference attendance prior to that date.

Box 36 Folder 8
Pugwash Conference (9th) on Science and World Affairs - Agenda for working groups, 1962
Box 36 Folder 28
Ocean Wave Radio Backscatter Group meeting, 1969
Box 36 Folder 9
Fliers for Munk speaking events, ca. 1971
Box 36 Folder 10
Physics Department Colloquium, UC Irvine, 1973 January 12
Box 36 Folder 11
Aerospace Corporation - Scientific Data Potential of Military Satellites meeting, 1977
Box 36 Folder 12
Naval Ocean Research and Development Activity (NORDA) lecture series, 1979 November, 1984
Box 36 Folder 13
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) winter meeting, Los Angeles, 1980 January
Box 36 Folder 14
WHOI events - 3rd International Congress on the History of Oceanography, and Symposium on the Future of Oceanography, 1980 September-October
Box 36 Folder 15
Nonlinear Properties of Internal Waves workshop, 1980
Box 36 Folder 16
U.S. Navy. Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) Steering Committee meeting, Voss, Norway, 1980
Box 36 Folder 17
3rd Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Waves and Stability, 1980-1981
Box 36 Folder 18
World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). Committee on Climatic Changes and the Ocean (CCCO) and Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) study conference on Large-scale Oceanographic Experiments, Tokyo, Japan, 1981-1982
Box 36 Folder 19
AGU annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 1982
Box 36 Folder 20
Naval Research Laboratory, John W. Wright Memorial Lecture, 1982
Box 36 Folder 21
4th Biennial Ewing Symposium, "Climate processes: Sensitivity to solar insolation and CO₂", New York, 1982
Box 36 Folder 22
UC Berkeley, Ocean Engineering graduate seminar, 1982-1983
Box 36 Folder 23
PSAG meeting, Washington, D.C., 1983
Box 36 Folder 24
Celebration for Jule Charney, MIT, 1983
Box 36 Folder 25
Alfred C. Redfield Memorial, Woods Hole, 1983
Box 36 Folder 26
Integrated Global Ocean Monitoring (MONOC) symposium, Tallin, USSR, 1983
Box 36 Folder 27
Scripps Anniversary Celebration: 80 years of Science and Service, 1983

Includes introductory remarks for Nierenberg and Frautschy, delivered by Munk.

Box 37 Folder 1
Alfred Wegener Konferenz on Air-Sea-Ice Interaction, Bremerhaven, 1983
Box 37 Folder 2
Integrated Global Ocean Observing System (IGOSS) subject experts meeting, 1983
Box 37 Folder 3
12-meter Design/Technology meetings for SAIC (re: America's Cup conditions off Perth), 1984
Box 37 Folder 4
Conference on the TOGA Scientific Programme, UNESCO, Paris, 1984
Box 37 Folder 5
Frank Press 60th birthday symposium, Cambridge, MA, 1984
Box 37 Folder 6
DOD Research Topical Review on Environmental Science, Annapolis, MD, 1984
Box 37 Folder 7
AGU. Geophysics Research Forum Panel on Sea-Level Change (Chair, Roger Revelle), San Francisco, CA, 1984
Box 37 Folder 8
CRP Review of Ocean Sciences Division of ONR, Washington, D.C., 1984
Box 37 Folder 9
U.S. Navy. Office of Naval Research (ONR) - Site reviews, 1984-1990, 1994
Box 37 Folder 10
"Suess-Fest" to celebrate Hans Suess' 75th birthday, La Jolla, CA, 1985
Box 37 Folder 11
CIMAS Visiting Scientist appointment, with trip to Haiti, 1985
Box 37 Folder 12
American Statistical Association Symposium in Honor of John Tukey; Bell Laboratories Defense Policy and Technology Colloquium, New Jersey, 1985
Box 37 Folder 13
H. Burr Steinbach visiting scholar at WHOI, 1985
Box 37 Folder 14
ISFARS. 3rd Symposium on Acoustic Remote Sensing of Atmosphere and Ocean, Paris, 1985
Box 37 Folder 15
PSAG, ONR, and NRC-OSB meetings, Washington, D.C., 1985
Box 37 Folder 16
Oceans 85. 10th anniversary joint MTS/IEEE Conference on Ocean Engineering and the Environment, San Diego, CA, 1985
Box 37 Folder 17
Bell Laboratories General Research Colloquium, 1985
Box 37 Folder 18
SIO-IEEE 4th Working Symposium on Oceanographic Data Systems, San Diego, CA, 1986
Box 37 Folder 19
Honorary Degree ceremony, Cambridge University, followed by travel to Italy, 1986

Includes logistics and congratulatory correspondence; the Munk's visited Milan, Venice and Trieste and made arrangements with Giuseppe N. di Scara, Munk's aunt Hilda Brunner, and cousin Mark Brunner.

Box 37 Folder 20
International WOCE Core-3 project meeting, London, 1986 September 2-5
Box 37 Folder 21
UK Oceanography 86, Southampton, England, 1986 September 14-19
Box 37 Folder 22
Victor Starr Memorial Lecture, MIT, MA, 1986
Box 38 Folder 1
National Academy of Sciences - 25th Anniversary of Deep Ocean Drilling symposium, 1986
Box 38 Folder 2
National Academy of Sciences - Ocean Lithosphere Genesis and Ridge Crest Processes workshop, 1986-1987
Box 38 Folder 3
Gifford C. Ewing Memorial, SIO, La Jolla, 1987
Box 38 Folder 4
7th Joint Working Group Meeting for the U.S.-PRC (China) Marine and Fishery S & T Cooperation Protocol, Catalina, CA, 1987
Box 38 Folder 5
Ocean Principals Meeting (with Munk's introductory remarks), Washington, D.C., 1987
Box 38 Folder 6
NATO Advanced Research Workshop, France, 1987
Box 38 Folder 7-8
Tomography celebration and review meeting at SIO, La Jolla, 1987

Includes Munk's slide presentation.

Box 38 Folder 9
IUGG - IAPSO General Assembly, Vancouver, Canada, 1987
Box 38 Folder 10
PRC (China) Delegation visit for Ocean Resources Research, Development and Protection, 1987
Box 38 Folder 11
Oceans 87, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1987

Includes Munk's outline of remarks for plenary session.

Box 38 Folder 12
Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) building dedication, Seattle WA, 1987
Box 38 Folder 13
Visit to Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, USSR, 1987

Includes photograph.

Box 38 Folder 14
Scientific Advisory Committee meeting of the Max-Planck-Institut, Hamburg, 1987
Box 38 Folder 15
Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) Technical Review meeting, San Diego, 1987-1988
Box 38 Folder 16
WOCE and POEM workshop, European Geophysical Society, Bologna, Italy, 1988
Box 38 Folder 17
Institute of Acoustics Spring Conference, Cambridge, England, 1988
Box 38 Folder 18
ONR Distinguished Speaker Colloquium, Washington, D.C., 1988
Box 38 Folder 19
Summer School of Theoretical Physics, "Tomography in geophysics" session, Le Houches, France, 1988
Box 38 Folder 20
Tsunami Society Conference on Natural and Man-made Disasters in the Marine Environment, La Jolla CA, 1988
Box 39 Folder 1
Ocean-Acoustic Modeling Interface Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1989
Box 39 Folder 2
SCOR-IOC Committee on Climatic Changes and the Ocean (CCCO), Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1989
Box 39 Folder 3
WOCE Core Project 3 (CP3) meeting, Woods Hole, RI, 1989
Box 39 Folder 4
The Oceanography Society (TOS) inaugural meeting, 1989
Box 39 Folder 5
Tomography review meeting, Washington, D.C., 1989
Box 39 Folder 7
Symposium on Tactical Oceanography. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, 1990
Box 39 Folder 8
NOAA-Navy Global Ocean Observations Workshop, 1990
Box 39 Folder 9
Bermuda Shadow talk, Florida State University; ASA meeting and lecture, Penn State; Robert W. Stewart Symposium, Victoria, B.C.; Europe travel, 1990 May-June
Box 39 Folder 10
NATO Conference on Ocean Variability and Acoustic Propagation, La Spezia, Italy, 1990 June
Box 39 Folder 11
ONR/U.S. and Indian Academy of Science - Sponsored visit to India, 1990
Box 39 Folder 12
Fondazione San Paolo di Torino. "Oceans, Climate and Man" international workshop, Italy, 1991
Box 39 Folder 13
Harold Jefferys Centenary Lecture, Cambridge, England, 1991
Box 39 Folder 14
IUGG meeting - IAPSO Symposium 6 on Global Warming, Vienna, Austria, 1991
Box 39 Folder 15
IUGG meeting - SCOR Working Group 96 (WG96) informal meeting, Vienna, Austria, 1991
Box 39 Folder 16
IUGG meeting - Brunner and Steger (personal/family) correspondence, Austria, 1991
Box 39 Folder 17
"The Bay Today" Monterey Bay Research Symposium, Ricketts Lecture, 1991
Box 39 Folder 18
Strategies for Future Climate Research Symposium, in honor of K. Hasselmann's 60th birthday, Hamburg, 1991
Box 40 Folder 1
ASA meeting, Houston, TX, 1991
Box 40 Folder 2
ISCBR, AJ Jeff Holter Memorial Lecture, San Diego, CA, 1992
Box 40 Folder 3
Royal Meteorological Society, Symons Lecture, London, 1992
Box 40 Folder 4
PACON, Hawaii, 1992
Box 40 Folder 5
IOC Blue Ribbon Panel for GOOS meeting, La Jolla, CA, 1992
Box 40 Folder 6
Dec-Cen Workshop on Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales, Irvine, CA, 1992
Box 40 Folder 7
Roger Revelle Memorial Symposium, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1992
Box 40 Folder 8
GOOS workshop, Woods Hole, RI, 1992
Box 40 Folder 9-10
Environmental Task Force meetings, McLean, VA, 1992-1993
Box 40 Folder 11
5th International Congress on the History of Oceanography (ICHO V), 1993

Includes abstract of Munk's remarks on Sverdrup.

Box 40 Folder 12
Vice President Gore briefing; ATOC/GAMOT Program review, 1993
Box 40 Folder 13
SCOR Working Group 96 (WG96) meeting on Acoustic Monitoring of Ocean Climate, Brest, France, 1993
Box 40 Folder 14
OSB reception honoring Carl Wunsch, Washington D.C., 1993
Box 40 Folder 15
Walter Munk Award for Distinguished Research in Oceanography Related to Sound and the Sea - The Oceanography Society (TOS) meetings, 1993-1994, 1997

Includes outlines of Munk's prepared remarks.

Box 41 Folder 1
The Changing Climate, lecture appearance by Munk. Leif J. Sverdrup Visiting Scientist Program, Augsburg College, 1994
Box 41 Folder 2
Sea Surface Sound conference, Lake Arrowhead, CA, 1994
Box 41 Folder 3
SCOR Working Group 96 (WG 96) meeting on Global Acoustic Monitoring, Kona, HI, 1994
Box 41 Folder 4
European Acoustical Society meeting, Denmark, 1994
Box 41 Folder 5
SOSUS Working Group meeting, Washington, D.C., 1994
Box 41 Folder 6
Summary report, "Acoustic techniques for measuring ocean variables: A review" - Joint Workshop on Acoustical Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, 1994
Box 41 Folder 7
U.S. Navy/NOAA. Acoustic techniques meeting with Captain Bob Smart, 1994
Box 41 Folder 8
R/V Roger Revelle launch, 1995
Box 41 Folder 9
ERIM/ONR Deep Ocean Convection Workshop, La Jolla, CA, 1995
Box 41 Folder 10
Joint U.S.-Russian Ecological/Environmental Seminar, Washington, D.C., 1995
Box 41 Folder 11
GLOBE USA Oceans Conference, with Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) luncheon with Admiral Boorda, 1995

Includes a talking points paper prepared for the Navy luncheon briefing.

Box 41 Folder 12
H. Burr Steinbach visiting scholar at WHOI, 1995
Box 41 Folder 13
Bioacoustical Oceanography Workshop, Santa Cruz, 1995
Box 41 Folder 14
GEFD Summer School lectures, Cambridge, England, 1995
Box 41 Folder 15
National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Revelle Colloquium on Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change, Irvine, CA, 1995 November
Box 41 Folder 16
MEDEA Ocean Panel Workshop, Stennis Space Center, MS, 1996
Box 41 Folder 17
AGU Ocean Science meeting, San Diego, CA, 1996
Box 41 Folder 18
SCOR Working Group 96 (WG96) meeting on Acoustic Monitoring of the Global Ocean, Hobart, Tasmania, 1996
Box 41 Folder 19
Palomar College Oceanography Lecture Series, 1996 April
Box 42 Folder 1
Vice President Gore-Medea Round Table - Polar and Ocean Session, 1996 May
Box 42 Folder 2
Office of Naval Research (ONR) 50th Anniversary Symposium, 1996 May
Box 42 Folder 3
U.S.-Korea Conference on Ocean Science and Technology, 1996 June
Box 42 Folder 4
3rd European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, Crete, Greece - Munk awarded Honorary Doctorate from University of Crete, 1996 June
Box 42 Folder 5
Pacific Ocean Remote Sensing Conference (PORSEC), Victoria, British Columbia, 1996 August
Box 42 Folder 6
Fram Strait Workshop, Boulder, CO, 1996 September
Box 42 Folder 7
ASA-ATJ 3rd joint meeting - Papers on ATOC, 1996
Box 42 Folder 8-9
Tidal Science conference, London (includes research-related correspondence on tidal mixing), 1996-1997
Box 42 Folder 10
Oceanology International 97 Pacific Rim conference, Singapore, 1997
Box 42 Folder 11
Cuernavaca, Mexico trip planning (visit with Eveylyn Lambert and University of Mexico), 1997
Box 42 Folder 12
Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Award Luncheon for Ed Horton, 1997
Box 42 Folder 13
SCOR meeting on Acoustic Monitoring of the World Ocean, Goa, India, 1997
Box 43 Folder 1
Oceanography Society's Scientific Meeting, Reno, 1999
Box 43 Folder 2
ASA-European Acoustical Association (EAA) joint meeting - Session in honor of Leonid Brekhovskikh, 1999
Box 43 Folder 3
36th European Marine Biology Symposium (EMB), Vienna, 1999
Box 43 Folder 4
DEOS Global Working Group meeting, Dallas, 1999
Box 43 Folder 5
North Pacific Acoustic Laboratory (NPAL) Experiment workshops, 1999-2001
Box 43 Folder 6
IAPSO-IABO Joint Assembly 2001, Argentina, 1999-2002

Includes material in Munk's award of the inaugural Prince Albert I Medal.

Box 43 Folder 7
AGU meeting, 2000
Box 43 Folder 8
Geophysical & Environmental Fluid Dynamics (GEFD) seminar series, 2000
Box 43 Folder 9
Venice, Italy and Monaco trip planning, 2000
Box 43 Folder 10
12th 'Aha Hulik'o Hawaiian winter workshop, 2001
Box 43 Folder 11
AGU meeting - Ocean observations: A session in celebration of Russ Davis' 60th birthday, 2001
Box 43 Folder 12
Oceanology International Americas, Miami, 2001
Box 43 Folder 13
Warren College Honors Banquet, with outline of remarks, 2001

NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL

Scope and Content of Series

Series 6) NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL: For many years, Walter Munk served on one or more of the National Research Council's major commissions or boards, including the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources (CPSMR) and the Ocean Studies Board (OSB). In the early 1980s, the CPSMR sought to consolidate efforts related to ocean science and policy, and voted to merge the Ocean Science Board with the Ocean Policy Committee to form the OSB. In 1985, Munk became the OSB chair. In this capacity, he guided and influenced the national research agenda for the fields of oceanography and climate science, and served on joint review panels for NOAA, NASA, and the U.S. Navy. This series contains Munk's files from his years of service on boards, panels, and commissions for the NRC, and it includes correspondence, agendas, reports, and notes. Arranged in approximate chronological order.

Box 44 Folder 1-3
CPHMR (Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Resources) - Correspondence, Biennial Program Plan, and meeting agendas, 1982-1985

Includes correspondence on the formation/merging of the Ocean Science Board and the Ocean Policy Committee, which was discussed at a June 1982 meeting.

Box 44 Folder 4
Committee on Global Change, 1987
Box 44 Folder 5
Naval Studies Board - Classification of NOAA survey data in the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), 1984-1989

Ocean Studies Board (OSB), aka Ocean Science Board, or Board on Ocean Science Policy (BOSP)

Box 44 Folder 6
OSB - NASA study on satellites and oceanography, 1979-1982
Box 44 Folder 7-8
OSB - International Ocean Studies Policy (IOSP), 1984-1988
Box 45 Folder 1
OSB - Notes, ca. 1985
Box 45 Folder 2-4
OSB - Correspondence and agendas, 1985
Box 45 Folder 5
OSB/Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate joint meeting agenda, 1985 November
Box 45 Folder 6-7
OSB - NOAA review/NOAA Panel, 1985-1986
Box 46 Folder 1-2
OSB - NOAA review/NOAA Panel, 1987-1990
Box 46 Folder 3
OSB - Ocean Climate Research Committee, 1985-1986
Box 46 Folder 4-7
OSB - Navy Panel, 1985-1988
Box 46 Folder 8
OSB - NASA briefing, 1986
Box 47 Folder 1-6
OSB - Correspondence and agendas, 1986
Box 47 Folder 7
OSB - Ocean research "Priorities Report" by Jim Baker, reviewed by Ocean Principals Group, 1986-1987
Box 47 Folder 8
OSB - CO₂ Panel with Roger Revelle, 1987
Box 47 Folder 9
OSB - Dinner meeting with remarks by Chairman Munk; 1987 annual report, 1987-1988
Box 48 Folder 1-8
OSB - Correspondence and agendas, 1987-1988
Box 49 Folder 1
OSB - Sponsored meeting on Heard Island at NAS; Navy Review Panel, 1989
Box 49 Folder 2-6
OSB - Correspondence and agendas, 1989-1991

1991 June file includes reports on "New opportunities in Ocean Acoustics" and "Directions for Physical Oceanography."

ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY

Scope and Content of Series

Series 7) ACOUSTIC TOMOGRAPHY: Ocean acoustic tomography is an area of study focused on measuring ocean temperature through acoustics. Munk studied underwater acoustics for many years, engaging in several major research and experimental programs, including the Heard Island Feasibility Test (HIFT) and the Acoustic Tomography of the Ocean (ATOC) project. Munk consistently referred to these experiments as the most exciting of his career. His earliest files on ocean acoustics were simply labelled "OAT" for Ocean Acoustic Tomography; later files were organized by major project or experiment name. Munk originally organized the OAT files chronologically within binders; they include correspondence, meeting agendas, proposals, funding correspondence, and plans for further research. When the collection was processed, any additional OAT material discovered elsewhere in the papers was interfiled into the existing arrangement.

Arranged in four subseries, in approximate chronological order: A) OAT, B) Greenland Sea, C) Heard Island, and D) ATOC.

OAT

Box 49 Folder 7-10
OAT research - Correspondence, proposals and notes, 1977-1979 March
Box 50 Folder 1-7
OAT research - Correspondence, proposals and notes, 1979 April-1982
Box 51 Folder 1-5
OAT research - Correspondence, proposals and notes, 1983-1988
Box 51 Folder 6-7
Ocean Acoustic Tomography: A method for measuring large-scale variability - Proposals for NSF, 1978-1980
Box 51 Folder 8
Proposal reviews, 1980
Box 51 Folder 9
Charles Stark Draper Laboratory (CSDL). Ocean acoustic tomography engineering technical proposal, 1980

Proposal number 0-350.

Box 51 Folder 10
Spindel/WHOI. Ocean Acoustic Tomography - Proposal for NSF, 1980
Box 51 Folder 11
Wunsch/MIT. Research on acoustic tomography - Proposal for NSF and ONR, 1981
Box 52 Folder 1-6
OAT: A gyre-scale experiment and related research - Proposal, reviews, research plans and summaries, ca. 1982-1984

Joint project of the "Ocean Tomography Group," comprised of SIO, MIT, University of Michigan, and WHOI.

Box 52 Folder 7
Research on imploding devices for sourcing acoustic energy, 1982
Box 52 Folder 8
Office of Naval Research (ONR) - Background and notes for discussion, 1982-1983
Box 52 Folder 9
Proposals and bids for hydroacoustic sources, 1983-1985
Box 52 Folder 10
Wunsch and Rizzoli/MIT. Studies of ocean variability by acoustic methods - Proposal for NSF and ONR, 1983
Box 52 Folder 11
Riser/U. of Washington. RAFOS floats and acoustic tomography in the North Pacific - Proposal for NSF, 1985
Box 52 Folder 12
Spiesberger/WHOI. Basin-scale acoustic tomography in the North Pacific - Proposal for NSF, 1985
Box 52 Folder 13
Gyre-scale reciprocal transmission experiment, 1985-1988

Contains summaries, correspondence, and shipboard activity information.

Box 52 Folder 14
Spiesberger/WHOI. Tomographic studies of the Northeast Pacific, 1987

Greenland Sea Project

Box 53 Folder 1
Early correspondence, 1980
Box 53 Folder 2-6
Project files, 1984-1989
Box 53 Folder 7
Summaries and Greenland Sea diary, 1988-1989

Heard Island Feasibility Test (HIFT)

Box 54 Folder 1
Map of Heard Island, 1949
Box 54 Folder 2-7
General documents - Correspondence, notes, presentation information and supporting materials, 1988-1994
Box 54 Folder 8-9
Acoustic sources - Research material and product information, 1987-1993
Box 54 Folder 10
Electromagnetic source development - Proposal by Hydroacoustics Incorporated, 1988
Box 54 Folder 11
Technical capabilities of Actran Systems - Low frequency projector systems, 1988
Box 54 Folder 12
Effects of noise impacts on marine mammals, whales - Notes, correspondence, data and reports, 1988-1991
Box 55 Folder 1
Lister generators, 1989
Box 55 Folder 2
Sonar equation, 1989
Box 55 Folder 3
Washington, D.C. meetings, 1989
Box 55 Folder 4
Munk, Spindel, and Birdsall (co-principal investigators). Acoustic Global Warming Feasibility Experiment - Proposal to NOAA, 1989
Box 55 Folder 5
Considerations and planning for use of the ship MV Cory Chouest , 1989-1991

Includes correspondence, notes, schedules, and plans.

Box 55 Folder 6-9
SIO meetings, 1989-1991
Box 55 Folder 10
Funding and budget planning, 1989-1991
Box 55 Folder 11
Cables, 1990
Box 55 Folder 12
Fisher, Fred. Large vertical array deployment to receive signals from Heard Island - Proposal to DOE, 1990
Box 55 Folder 13
Equipment shipment to Goa, India, 1990
Box 55 Folder 14
Greenpeace, 1990-1991
Box 56 Folder 1-18
[Pre-HIFT] Receivers correspondence, by location, 1988-1991
Box 56 Folder 19
Receivers correspondence, 1990-1991
Box 56 Folder 20-26
[Post-HIFT] location report files, by location, ca. 1990-1991

Includes: Nova Scotia, Bermuda, India, Cape Town, Mawson Station, and Tasman Sea (New Zealand).

Box 57 Folder 1-7
[Post-HIFT] location report files, by location, ca. 1990-1991

Includes: N. Atlantic (USSR), Christmas Island, Kergulen, Maatsuyker Island (Tasmania), Monterey, DREP, and Hawaii.

Box 57 Folder 8
Heard Island: An Experiment in Sound - Film script and production correspondence, 1990-1991

For the video, see the AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS series.

Box 57 Folder 9
Press release materials and interview correspondence, 1990-1991

Includes two photographs of Jacques Cousteau.

Box 57 Folder 10
Transmission loss (TL) data and calculations, 1990-1991
Box 57 Folder 11
SCOR Working Group 96 (WG96), Acoustic Monitoring of Global Ocean Warming (AGLOW) - Correspondence and proposals, 1990-1991
Box 57 Folder 12
Cohen, John, 1991

Includes correspondence and Roger Revelle's response to Cohen's Science article, claiming that sound transmissions could damage marine mammals.

Box 57 Folder 13
Dworski, George and Munk. A ship note on Heard Island intensities, 1991
Box 57 Folder 14-15
Incoming shipboard correspondence, 1991
Box 58 Folder 1-2
Outgoing shipboard correspondence, 1991
Box 58 Folder 3
Phase I proposal for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), 1991-1993
Box 58 Folder 4
Briefing materials for presentation to the NAS, 1991
Box 58 Folder 5
Refraction figures - Transparencies
Box 58 Folder 6
Tomography figures - Transparencies
Box 58 Folder 7
Miscellaneous figures - Transparencies and photocopies
Box 58 Folder 8-11
Photographs - Heard Island, F. Snodgrass, ships and equipment

Includes figure transparencies, and photographs of Frank Snodgrass, ships, and equipment.

Box 58 Folder 12
Negatives

ATOC

Box 59 Folder 1
ATOC project overview, 1994-1996

Includes purpose statement, outline of tasks, and statements of work.

Box 59 Folder 2-8
ATOC - Correspondence, hearings, and agendas, 1991-1999

General chronological files of ATOC-related documents including correspondence, memoranda, hearing information, meeting agendas and press releases.

Box 59 Folder 9
DARPA - Project file with correspondence, notes, and planning documentation, 1991-1992
Box 59 Folder 10
DARPA - "Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate" proposal, 1992
Box 60 Folder 1
Effects of low frequency sound on marine mammals, ATOC/GAMOT - OSB meeting, National Research Council, 1993
Box 60 Folder 2
Kauai source deployment and installation, 1994

Includes cruise plan, correspondence, cruise reports, and diary entries (typed).

Box 60 Folder 3
"Ocean Acoustic Observatories" proposal to ONR, 1994 November
Box 60 Folder 4
Scripps, NRCD, SCLDF joint meeting on California and Hawaii MMRP and ATOC Projects, 1995
Box 60 Folder 5
California Coastal Commission - Public hearing, San Mateo County/Carmel, 1995
Box 60 Folder 6
Hawaii Dept. of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) Board hearing, Kauai, 1995
Box 60 Folder 7
ATOC Engineering Test (AET) meeting, 1995
Box 60 Folder 8
Joint Ocean Climate Initiative, with outline and statement on ONR's role, 1997-1998

SUBJECT/RESEARCH FILES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 8) SUBJECT/RESEARCH FILES: A modest assortment of unrelated subject and research files, arranged alphabetically by folder title. The series includes both committees and topical subjects. Highlights include Munk's notes from the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests conducted at Bikini Atoll, and subsequent Capricorn Expedition research; and Munk's extensive documentation of his visits to China and the Soviet Union.

Box 60 Folder 9
Acoustical monitoring of tidal vorticity, 1982

Includes correspondence with Andrew Bennett, David Cartwright, Carl Wunsch and Bernie Zetler

Box 60 Folder 10-12
Bermuda - Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) / Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS), 1994-1996
Box 61 Folder 1
Bermuda Biological Station for Research, 1974-1976
Box 61 Folder 2
Bikini - Notes on diffusion of radioactive material for Operation Crossroads, 1946
Box 61 Folder 3
Bikini - Reef diffusion, 1946
Box 61 Folder 4
Bikini - Coral reef breakwater photographs, 1946
Box 61 Folder 5
Bikini - Tentative program proposal by Munk and Traylor, with notecards for prepared remarks, 1946-1947
Box 61 Folder 6
Bikini - Reports, summaries, and data on wind and currents, 1946
Box 61 Folder 7-9
Capricorn Expedition - Correspondence and miscellaneous, 1951-1956
Box 61 Folder 10-11
Capricorn Expedition - Research notebooks, 1952
Box 61 Folder 12
Cavitation and ferrofluids, 1978-1982
Box 62 Folder 1
China - Scientific exchanges, 1974-1977
Box 62 Folder 2-4
China - Scientific Delegation (1977 trip) sponsored by Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China (CSCPRC), 1977

Includes handwritten travel notebook. See WRITINGS series for additional material.

Box 62 Folder 5
China - Scientific Delegation (1977 trip) sponsored by CSCPRC - Original color slides, 1977
Box 62 Folder 6
China - Report to Canadian Dept. of External Affairs as Scientific Exchange Visitor, by Anthony Bidwell, 1977
Box 62 Folder 7-12
China - Oceanographic Delegation (1978 trip) sponsored by CSCPRC, 1978-1979

Includes photograph album.

Box 62 Folder 13
China - Oceanographic Research Vessels Delegation from Chinese Academy of Sciences (visit to SIO), 1978 March-April
Box 62 Folder 14
China - Marine Sciences Delegation from PRC (visit to SIO), 1978 May
Box 62 Folder 15
China - Visiting scholars, 1978-1982
Box 63 Folder 1
China - Briefing notes from World Bank on fisheries; Inman letter re: NAS report on China, 1980
Box 63 Folder 2
China - Trip to tour oceanography institutes in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Quingdao and Beijing, 1986
Box 63 Folder 3-4
CSIRO Marine Laboratory 4-month sabbatical, Hobart, Tasmania, 1989

Includes a folder of correspondence re: visits by Admiral Wilson ("Smoke" Wilson) and Commander Higgins.

Box 63 Folder 5
Deep Sea Drilling Steering Committee
Box 63 Folder 6
Exponential horn, undated
Box 63 Folder 7
Flextensional transducers, 1982
Box 63 Folder 8
Frontier Challenger Expedition, 1981
Box 63 Folder 9
Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS), 1991-1994
Box 63 Folder 10
Hydroacoustics, Inc.

Correspondence and water gun research proposal by John Bouyoucos.

Box 63 Folder 11
Institute for Naval Oceanography, 1986-1987
Box 63 Folder 12
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) budget, 1985-1986
Box 63 Folder 13
Judith bottom capsule - History by Jim Cairns, 1976
Box 63 Folder 14
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation Visiting Committee for Earth Sciences, 1977-1982
Box 63 Folder 15
Max Planck Institute of Meteorology - Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), 1987-1990
Box 64 Folder 1-6
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI). Program Planning Committee and Board of Directors, 1986-2001
Box 64 Folder 7
MBARI - Ocean Acoustic Observatory proposal, 1996
Box 64 Folder 8
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA Advisory Council (NAC), 1979-1980, 1988

Includes material from NAC's Ad Hoc Informal Advisory Subcommittee on Weather, Climate, and Oceans, and Space and Terrestrial Applications Advisory Committee (STAAC).

Box 64 Folder 9
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 1990-1991
Box 65 Folder 1
National Science Foundation. Advisory Committee for Ocean Sciences, 1985
Box 65 Folder 2
Ocean Color Imager (OCI), 1985-1987
Box 65 Folder 3
Perth-Bermuda sound propagation experiment, 1983-1987
Box 65 Folder 4
Pulse engines, 1982
Box 65 Folder 5
Russia - Soviet scientists from R/V Vityaz visit Scripps, 1958
Box 65 Folder 6
Russia - Academies of Sciences of USSR and USA, 1962 trip planning
Box 65 Folder 7
Russia - Academies of Sciences of USSR and USA, 1968 trip planning

Includes extensive travel journal by Judith Munk describing time in Moscow.

Box 65 Folder 8
SAIC-MHI collaboration on a Pacific Ocean tomography network, 1998
Box 65 Folder 9
SEASAT project (ship wakes from space), 1983-1985

Includes correspondence and research with Roger Dashen.

Box 66 Folder 1-3
Sverdrup, Harald - Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) security clearance files

Includes a letter from Judith Morgan with an annotated draft of comments about Sverdrup's file.

Box 65 Folder 10
Tasman Sea experiments, 1984-1986
Box 65 Folder 11
Thames Barrier, London, 1983
Box 65 Folder 12
University of Delaware, Physical Ocean Sciences and Engineering - Planning Committee, 1997
Box 67 Folder 1-4
Venice, Italy, 1972-1976
Box 67 Folder 5
Whales and air guns/seismic blasts, 1982
Box 67 Folder 6
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) - Educational Committee, 1965-1966

Includes report by Norris W. Rakestraw.

UC SAN DIEGO AND SIO

Scope and Content of Series

Series 9) UC SAN DIEGO: Walter Munk was affiliated with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, IGPP, and UC San Diego for the entire duration of his career. He kept a small, but important, series of files relating to his administrative role at the University, documenting his position in the development of the campus. Munk chaired the Academic Senate in the tempestuous year of 1969, and his Senate files contain notes, memoranda, and correspondence received during this time relating to various campus controversies. He kept files for only a small selection of the campus committees and task forces on which he served; these folders form a record of campus climate over time. Highlights include a file on the Central Library with letters from Roger Revelle, and other materials relating to new program development or architecture on campus. Materials are arranged alphabetically by folder title, with a small assortment of Munk's UC San Diego teaching materials consolidated at the end of the series.

Box 67 Folder 7
Academic Senate - Herbert Marcuse file, 1968
Box 67 Folder 8-9
Academic Senate, 1969-1970

Include Munk's files and notes from his time as chair of the UC San Diego Division; includes topics such as Herbert Marcuse, Angela Davis, student protests and strikes, and military (classified) funding on campus.

Box 67 Folder 10-11
Academic Senate - Committee on Community Environment (Campus/Community Planning Committee), 1975-1977
Box 68 Folder 1-4
Academic Senate - Committee on Community Environment (Campus/Community Planning Committee), 1978-1980

1980 folder includes detailed timeline of documents pertaining to acquisition of La Jolla Farms and Stables property.

Box 68 Folder 5
Academic Senate - Committee on Academic Freedom, 1984-1985
Box 68 Folder 6
Academic Senate - Committee on Campus and Community Environment, 1987-1988
Box 68 Folder 7
California Space Institute - Ad Hoc Committee, 1979
Box 68 Folder 8
Center for Art/Science Studies - Advisory Committee, 1976-1978
Box 68 Folder 9
Central Library - Correspondence with Mary Galbraith, Roger Revelle and others re: naming and expansion, 1987
Box 68 Folder 10
Dynes, Robert C. Remarks, Council on Competitiveness Symposium on National Security, 2002 October 8
Box 68 Folder 11
Energy Center - Ad hoc Committee for 5-Year Review, 1985
Box 68 Folder 12
Engineering Research Center proposal, 1984
Box 69 Folder 1
Graduate Program Review Visiting Committee for Scripps - Report, 1993 May
Box 69 Folder 2
Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club, 1987
Box 69 Folder 3
Joint Institute for Marine Observations - MOU between NOAA, UC Regents and SIO, undated
Box 69 Folder 4
Joint NOAA/SIO Institute for Ocean and Atmosphere Observations proposal, 1990
Box 69 Folder 5
La Jolla Institute - UCSD
Box 69 Folder 6
La Jolla Town Council - UCSD Committee, 1967-1968
Box 69 Folder 7-8
Museum of Oceanographic Instruments / Scripps Historical Oceanographical Instruments Collection, 1986-1989
Box 69 Folder 9
Oceanids Pavilion - Dedication to Ellen Revelle, 1986
Box 69 Folder 10-11
Old Scripps Building, 1977-1982
Box 69 Folder 12
Old Scripps Building Advisory Committee, 1988-1989
Box 69 Folder 13
Organized Research Unit (ORU) for Study of Global Change Processes proposal, ca. 1987
Box 69 Folder 14
Physical oceanography - Outline of major Scripps contributions, undated
Box 69 Folder 15-17
SIO business - Committees, correspondence and memoranda, 1971-1979
Box 70 Folder 1-3
SIO business - Committees, correspondence and memoranda, 1980-2007
Box 70 Folder 4
SIO Directorate - Short- and Long-range Planning Committees, 1986-1987
Box 70 Folder 5
SIO Policy Council, 1987-1991
Box 70 Folder 6
Secretary of the Navy Research Chair in Oceanography at SIO - Grant proposals, 1985
Box 70 Folder 7-8
Secretary of the Navy Research Chair in Oceanography at SIO - Correspondence, 1984-1996
Box 70 Folder 9
Revelle College Dedication Committee, 1965
Box 70 Folder 10
Robert Paine Scripps Conference Center, 2003-2005
Box 70 Folder 11
UCSD School of Architecture Planning Committee, 1985-1987

Teaching

Box 70 Folder 12-13
TSIO 225 - Tides and rotation of the Earth, 1970-1972
Box 70 Folder 14
SIO 219 - Oceanic microprocesses, 1971
Box 70 Folder 15
SIO 211A - Ocean waves (Munk, Davis and Hendershott), 1973
Box 71 Folder 1
SIO 90 - Freshman seminar, 1974
Box 71 Folder 2-8
SIO 219 - Case histories and methods in physical oceanography (Cox, Munk and Davis), 1973-1983
Box 71 Folder 9
SIO 219 - Acoustic oceanography, 1982
Box 71 Folder 10
Physical Oceanography Student Ad Hoc Committee evaluations, 1981-1986

IGPP

Scope and Content of Series

Series 10) IGPP: This small, two-box series contains the only archived copies of early correspondence, memoranda, and proposals relating to the founding of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at UC San Diego. This material is found at the beginning of the series, followed by a folder of historical summaries and an IGPP timeline compiled by Orson Anderson. Other materials document the Munks' generous funding and planning for the expansion of IGPP and the Scripps Crossing bridge in the 1980s and early 1990s. Files are arranged in approximate chronological order.

Box 71 Folder 11
Photographs of original IGPP site, prior to construction
Box 71 Folder 12-17
Founding documents and early correspondence, 1959-1969
Box 72 Folder 1
Proposals, 1960-1961
Box 72 Folder 2
First annual report and summary of research activities, ca. 1961, 1970
Box 72 Folder 3
Building personnel and equipment summary for FY 1962-1963, ca. 1961
Box 72 Folder 4
Summer Noon Series talk on "History of IGPP", 1975
Box 72 Folder 5
Planning retreat at Meling Ranch, 1981
Box 72 Folder 6-7
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1982-1996
Box 72 Folder 8
"Significant dates" timeline and IGPP history documentation compiled by Orson Anderson, 1982-1990
Box 72 Folder 9
Physical Oceanography Building, 1981-1983
Box 72 Folder 10
Building extension and Scripps Crossing bridge - Outline and model photographs, undated
Box 72 Folder 11-15
Building extension and Scripps Crossing bridge, 1981-1990 August
Box 73 Folder 1-7
Building extension and Scripps Crossing bridge, 1990 September
Box 73 Folder 8
Building extension and Scripps Crossing bridge - Dedication and awards, 1993-1995
Box 73 Folder 9
Brief history of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP), 1989
Box 73 Folder 10
Corrections to Director's Report, 1990
Box 73 Folder 11
IGPP Annual Meeting and institutional review, UC San Diego, 2000
Box 73 Folder 12
Orcutt, John. Statement on Program to Enhance the Strength of Cecil H. and Ida M. Green Foundation for Earth Sciences, 2001
Box 73 Folder 13
Division of Geosciences proposal, 2001

WORKS BY OTHERS

Box 74 Folder 1
Shugart, Erika. Sounding out the ocean's secrets, 1998
Box 74 Folder 2
Spofford, C. W. (for SAI). Ray and mode characteristics for ocean acoustic tomography, 1981
Box 74 Folder 3
Stommel, Henry. Works on tidal estuaries and estuary dynamics, with cover letter, 1950
Box 74 Folder 4-5
Stommel, Henry. Various articles, drafts, and reprints, lightly annotated/addressed to W. Munk
Box 74 Folder 6
Titus, Harold A. Conditional sampling for unusual events. Unpublished paper, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, 1970 August
Box 77 Folder 2
Titus, Harold A. Conditional sampling - Graphs and plots (oversize)
Box 74 Folder 7
Waltner, Alan. The regulation of marine scientific research: The experience of the SIO's Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climates (ATOC) experiment, 1997

PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 12) PHOTOGRAPHS: A very small selection of photographs, including only a few portraits of Munk and his wife Judith. There are several good black and white digital (scanned) images of Munk teaching, probably taken by a University photographer in the mid-1960s. Photographs of people and Munk are at the beginning of the series, while the latter half includes miscellaneous images, including a large assortment of slides. Photographs from WWII-era wave forecasting research are in series 3, and slides and a photograph album from the Munks' 1977 and 1978 trips to China are in series 8 with other materials documenting those travels. An additional donation of photographs was made in 2022; these form the end of the series.

People

Box 74 Folder 8
Portraits of Munk
Munk teaching - Digital scans of UCSD photos, ca. 1965

12 images. To review the images, click on the orange "View Online" link at the top of the finding aid; then, on the Munk digital collection page, search the phrase, "Walter Munk teaching."

Box 74 Folder 9
Samoan party at the Munks' home (photographs by Hugh Bradner), 1964
Box 74 Folder 10
Maurice Ewing, ca. 1948
Box 74 Folder 11
Edward Teller, ca. 1958

Includes print of Teller with Roger Revelle on television, during what was probably testimony at a hearing on science and the environment. Original source unknown; image was used as Figure 1 in "Ivy-MIKE," by Munk and Deborah Day, 2003.

Box 74 Folder 12
Unidentified people

Other

Box 77 Folder 5
"Punahawi S7 at Kamehameha [Ave.]" - People fleeing tidal wave in Hilo, Hawaii, by Cecilio Licas, 1946 April 1
Box 74 Folder 13
Tsunami/tidal wave damage in Hilo, Hawaii, 1946
Box 74 Folder 14
Scientific instruments and equipment
Box 77 Folder 6
Munk and Tucker - Figure 1. Aerial shot of sun refraction at sea, 1951
Box 74 Folder 15
Wave refraction over and near Scripps Canyon
Box 74 Folder 16
Operation Glitter
Box 74 Folder 17
William von Arx - Rotating trough
Box 74 Folder 18
"Waves on Lake Chelan," Chelan series no. 437 by L. D. Lindsley, 1908
Box 74 Folder 19
Ships and storms at sea, compiled by Charles C. Dixon
Box 74 Folder 20
Sea floor

Sea spiders and brittle starfish, image taken by David M. Owen with Ewing undersea camera; images of Sylvania seamount.

Box 74 Folder 21
R/V E.W. Scripps off Guadalupe Island, 1946
Box 74 Folder 22
Avalon Bay with large breaking waves, Catalina Island, 1939
Box 74 Folder 23
Ripples and internal waves
Box 77 Folder 7
Ripples (oversize)
Box 74 Folder 24
"Spring Stirring" Hord sculpture installation, with Cecil and Ida Green, 1963
Box 74 Folder 25
Eruption from Myōjin-shō submarine volcano, Izu Islands, Japan (glass lantern slide), 1952 September 53
Walter Munk slide collection - Scientific figures, graphs, and images of IGPP campus, "Spring Stirring" sculpture, etc.

Ca. 600 slides, primarily images of published figures, assembled for lecture presentations. Only a tiny minority are photographic images of Munk or the Scripps Institution of Oceanography campus. Slides have been digitized; see Digital Collections for searchable descriptions, titles, and cover sheets for each grouping of slides.

2022 Accession

Box 78 Folder 1
Bowie Medal - Presentation to Judith Munk, 1989 December 6
Box 78 Folder 2
Walter Munk's 80th birthday party at IGPP, 1997
Box 78 Folder 3
Kyoto Prize - Negatives, 1999 November
Oversize FB-424 Folder 12
Kyoto Prize - Photo album, 1999 November
Box 78 Folder 4
Researchers - Harald Sverdrup, David Ziskind, Leonard Mandel, and Alfred Redfield, ca. 1940-1985
Box 78 Folder 5-6
Walter Munk portraits, and in group settings, 1950-2003

AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS

Box 75 Folder 3
Walter Munk interviewed by Laurence Armi - VHS and audiocassette, 1994 September 28

Interview by Armi sponsored by NCAR and the American Meteorological Society.

Box 75 Folder 4
Waves Across the Pacific (McGraw Hill Films) - Betacam video copy of original 16mm film print, 1967

Educational film documents an oceanographic experiment conducted by Walter Munk in 1963. Munk describes the use of wave stations to track waves from the southern storm belt. Includes footage of SIO, IGPP, and Frank Snodgrass.

Box 76 Folder 1
"Wave of the future." Walter Munk, Scripps Aquarium Associates evening lecture - Audiocassette, 1986 July 11

The sound quality is poor and sometimes difficult to understand. Opening remarks were presented by Donald W. Wilkie, followed by Edward A. Frieman and UCSD Chancellor Richard C. Atkinson. Dr. Atkinson is followed by William A. Nierenberg, who introduces Dr. Munk.

Box 76 Folder 2
"The IGPP mug shots: a Halloween surprise." Geophysics Seminar on personal and architectural history of IGPP and SIO - Audiocassette, 1986 October 31

For the related notes and slides, see the WRITINGS AND TALKS series.

Box 76 Folder 5
Heard Island: An Experiment in Sound - Videocassette, 1991

Master broadcast videocassette copy of "Heard Island: An Experiment in Sound," was produced by Liane Young, featuring research and interviews with Walter Munk of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography regarding ocean acoustic tomography.

Digital file bb4647066h
Walter and Judith Munk on "The Lounge" (KPBS radio show), interviewed on the occasion of SIO 100th anniversary, 2003 September 9
Box 76 Folder 6
Walter at Cambridge - Videocassette, 1986 December 9

Silent color video clip of honorary degree recipients at Cambridge University, 1986. Walter and Judith Munk can be seen in the procession. 4 minutes.