Childhood: Brooklyn, New York, son of retail salesman; Hunter College, geology, 1957-1961; Columbia University, doctoral degree, oceanography, 1961-1965; association with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO]: assistant to Georg Wust, physical oceanographer; cruises to Indian Ocean, Antarctic, Carribean, research, physical oceanography; lectures, oceanography, Institutes of Kiel and Hamburg, Germ any; chairman, Department of Geological Sciences, LDEO, 1976; reminiscences of colleagues.