Oral history interview with Lynn R. Sykes 1997 ...
Childhood: born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, son of meteorologist; early education in Fairfax County, Virginia; Massachusetts Institute of Technology: B.S., M.S., geology, geophysics, 1955-1960; U.S. Geological Survey: pressure research, summer, 1956; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute: geophysical res...
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Columbia University
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-q3xv-js33 https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/catalog/cul:r2280gb7fw |
| Summary: | Childhood: born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, son of meteorologist; early education in Fairfax County, Virginia; Massachusetts Institute of Technology: B.S., M.S., geology, geophysics, 1955-1960; U.S. Geological Survey: pressure research, summer, 1956; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute: geophysical research in Europe, at sea, 1959-1960; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO]: PhD., geophysics 1960-1965, restructuring of LDEO, Columbia administration, member, executive committee of LDEO, 1968, fundraising issues, succession of LDEO directors; seismological research in California, East Africa, Greenland, South Pacific, Fiji, Japan; funding of research projects; development of seismological instrumentation; introduction of computers into recording of seismological data; development of continental drift theory, transform faulting, plate tectonics; Columbia University: assistant professorship, geology, formation of Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences; effort to improve environmental science curriculum, ... |
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