Adrian F. Richards Collection, ca. 1946-1988 (SMC 103)

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

Extent: 1.5 Linear feet (2 archives boxes and 1 shoebox), + 4.35 GB of digital files

Digital Content

Some volcano photographs have been scanned and are described in the container list.

The Adrian F. Richards Collection consists largely of photographic prints, negatives, and slides collected by the marine geologist, and includes one graduate-level paper by Richards.

Adrian F. Richards was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1929. He got a B.S. from the University of New Mexico in 1951 and a Ph.D. in oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1957. Since that time, he held positions with the U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office, the Department of Agriculture, the National Academy of Sciences, the U. S. Navy Electronics Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research, and the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway. In 1964 he was appointed Associate Professor of Geology (nine-tenths time) and Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (one-tenth time) on the faculty of the University of Illinois. He worked in academia, industry and the U.S. Navy as an oceanographer, submarine geologist and management consultant until his retirement in 1988. He published over 170 articles and participated in research expeditions to most of the oceans of the world.

The Adrian F. Richards Collection consists largely of photographic prints, negatives, and slides collected by the marine geologist, and includes one graduate-level paper by Richards. The images include the Volcán Bárcena (also known as Boqueron) eruption in the early 1950s on Isla San Benedicto, the subject of his doctoral dissertation, as well as pictures of ships and oceanographic instruments and equipment. It also includes a few photographs of Richards at work.

Richards donated his copies of government footage of the Volcán Bárcena eruption in 1952 to the Library. The films are cataloged and available online: https://search-library.ucsd.edu/permalink/01UCS_SDI/ld412s/alma991002821779706535

Container List

Collection materials

Box 1 Folder 1
Adrian F. Richards. Dielectric mineral grain separation problem, 1951

Prints and negatives - Scientific instruments and work aboard ships

Box 1 Folder 2
Geotechnical Ocean Engineering (GOE) corer, 1982
Box 1 Folder 3
4-bbl corer and hydroplastic corer, designed by Richards, 1975
Box 1 Folder 4
Sound-velocity probe of German Hydrographic Institute, Kiel, 1965
Box 1 Folder 5
Designs from MGL, Lehigh University
Box 1 Folder 6
Alvin probes
Box 1 Folder 7
Miscellaneous equipment

Sea Cliff; Norwegian Geotech gas-operated seafloor sampler; results of in-situ shear strength aboard Researcher.

Box 1 Folder 8
Richards/Keller plastic-bbl corer
Box 1 Folder 9
In-situ vane testing machine
Box 1 Folder 10
Deep Quest, ca. 1985

Prints and negatives - Places, people and landscapes

Box 2 Folder 1
Myojin-sho eruptions, 1946, 1952, 1953
Box 2 Folder 2
Rocas Alijos, 1952-1953
Box 2 Folder 3
Isla Socorro, 1963
Box 2 Folder 4
Richards - Portraits and with others, between 1955 and 1975
Box 2 Folder 5-7
Volcán Bárcena (Boqueron), Isla San Benedicto eruption, 1925, 1952-1955

Digital images

Digital file 1
Volcán Bárcena (Boqueron), Isla San Benedicto eruption; Capelinhos Volcano, Faial Island eruption - Tifs
Digital file 2
Volcán Bárcena (Boqueron), Isla San Benedicto eruption - Slide show with captions
Digital file 3
Capelinhos Volcano, Faial Island eruption - Slide show with captions

Slides

Box 3
Volcán Bárcena, ca. 1952-1953
Box 3
Capelinhos Volcano, Faial Island, Azores, 1958
Box 3
Marine Geotechnical Laboratory (MGL), Lehigh University - In situ equipment
Box 3
Penetrators, British Research Establishment (BRE), England, ca. 1970
Box 3
Ships and ocean tools, ca. 1959-1969
Box 3
Drill rig chronology
Box 3
Deep Quest - Lecture set
Box 3
Deep Quest - Bottom photos
Box 3
Deep Quest - Misc.
Box 3
Deep Quest - Dive results
Box 3
Deep Quest - Dives
Box 3
Deep Quest - Misc.
Box 3
Alvin
Box 3
Submersibles
Box 3
Hughes Glomar Explorer
Box 3
Torpedo and other corers
Box 3
DeepStar, 1972
Box 3
Pore-pressure loading / ONR power Piezometer, misc.
Box 3
Salvage of a lost 1944 F6F Hellcat, recovered from 3,400 feet of water, 1970
Box 3
Glomar Challenger
Box 3
ALCOA Seaprobe (WHOI), ca. 1970
Box 3
THUMS Islands, Long Beach, 1973-1974
Box 3
Hitachi underwater bulldozer
Box 3
ALVIN, Wilkinson Basin