Bernard D. Zetler Papers, 1956-1989 (SMC 182)

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Extent: 1.6 Linear feet (4 archives boxes)

Papers of Bernard D. Zetler, a research oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who studied tides and tsunamis.

Bernard David Zetler (1915-1991) was a research oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) who studied tides and tidal current analysis and prediction, hydrodynamics, acoustic tomography and tsunamis. He graduated from Brooklyn College with a B.S. in mathematics in 1936 before joining the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1938, where he worked as a mathematician and oceanographer until 1965. During World War II he was involved in tide and surf forecasting for the U.S. military which guided Pacific Fleet landings. He then worked as a Senior Research Oceanographer for the NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory before joining the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at SIO in 1972. Zetler was awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Silver Medal in 1966 for his research on tides and life-saving tsunami warning systems.

A small collection of the papers of Bernard D. Zetler, a research oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography who studied tides and tsunamis. Subjects of note include acoustic tomography, hydrodynamics, tidal analysis and prediction, and sea level.

Arranged in four series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL FILES, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) SUBJECT FILES and 4) WRITINGS.

Container List

BIOGRAPHICAL FILES

Box 1 Folder 1
Who's Who biographical summaries, 1981-1984
Box 1 Folder 2
Annual academic biography, 1983-1984
Box 1 Folder 3
Bibliography, undated
Box 1 Folder 4
Miscellaneous photographs of Zetler, undated

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Includes correspondence exchanged with Walter D. Lambert, Harold Jeffreys and Robert Stonley. The correspondence with Harold Jeffreys is dated 1956-1962 and discusses his work on the theory of diurnal earth tides.

Box 1 Folder 5-20
1956-1978
Box 2 Folder 1-16
1978-1991

SUBJECT FILES

Box 3 Folder 1
Acoustic gauges, ca. 1970-1980

Miscellaneous color slides of acoustic gauge at sea.

Box 3 Folder 2
Acoustic tomography, 1981-1984
Box 3 Folder 3
Hydrodynamics, undated
Box 3 Folder 4
Earth Sciences 242: Geophysical Measurements, 1965

Class notes and informational material.

Box 3 Folder 5-6
Earth Sciences 244: Gravity and Tides, 1963

Class notes and informational material.

Box 3 Folder 7-8
Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) acoustic experiments, 1977-1983

Includes correspondence, notes and general material from assorted acoustic experiments, including the IGPP-WHOI Southern California Acoustic Experiment and the ONR "Variability in Sound Transmission Through the Ocean Interior" project.

Box 3 Folder 9
International Tsunami Symposium, 1981
Box 3 Folder 10
Least-squares tidal analysis, undated
Box 3 Folder 11
Manuscript reviews, 1978-1984
Box 3 Folder 12
National Geodetic Survey (NGS) - Annotated notebook, undated
Box 3 Folder 13
Ocean Acoustic Tomography: A Gyre-Scale Experiment and Related Research, 1983-1986, 1982
Box 3 Folder 14
Permanent Service for Mean Sea Level (PSMSL), 1977-1979

Sea-Level Rise Project, 1983

Box 4 Folder 1
Sea-Level Rise Project, 1983

WRITINGS

Papers

Box 4 Folder 2
State of the Art in Tide Predictions, 1982

Paper prepared for the 18th International Conference on Coastal Engineering.

Box 4 Folder 3
Zetler, B.D., E.E. Long and L.F. Ku. "Tide Predictions Using Satellite Constituents", 1983-1984
Box 4 Folder 4-5
Zetler, Bernard D. and Reinhard E. Flick. "Predicted Extreme High Tides for California: 1983-2000", 1983-1985
Box 4 Folder 6
Predicted Extreme High Tides for Mixed-Tide Regimes, 1984-1985
Box 4 Folder 7
Arctic Tides by Rollin A. Harris (1911) Revisited, 1985-1986
Box 4 Folder 8
Military Tide Predictions in World War II, 1989

Notes

Box 4 Folder 9-10
Miscellaneous notes, 1960-1971

From folders entitled "Materials used in papers and presentations."

Box 4 Folder 11
George Hext lecture on time series analysis, 1963
Box 4 Folder 12
Unidentified math notes, 1964-1965
Box 4 Folder 13
BOMM System, 1965

Notes on BOMM, a system of computer arithmetic programs developed by IGPP.

Box 4 Folder 14
Roger Revelle's sea-level theory, 1983
Box 4 Folder 15
Ship position calculations, 1985
Box 4 Folder 16
Pelagic tidal computations, undated