Oral history interview with John and Betty Ewing 1997

 

Name
Ewing, John (Interviewee)
Doel, Ronald (Interviewer)
Ewing, Betty (Interviewee)
Title
Oral history interview with John and Betty Ewing 1997
Abstract
Childhood, Lockney, Texas: homesteading, growing up during the Depression; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute [WHOI], 1941-42: work with brother W. Maurice Ewing [M. Ewing], Anton Dohrn voyages, underwater photography work, Naval bathythermography building; World War II service, 1943-1946; Harvard University, B.S., physics, 1950; Lamont Geological Observatory [Lamont],1949-1976: Doc's move from WHOI to Lamont, SOFAR work, instrumentation development, sunk ship identification, international visitors, post-war international focus on science, sea voyages, ship equipment and regulations, SOSUS installation, Lamont departmental interactions, funding changes, Lamont's relations with other earth science research organizations, MOHOLE and JOIDES deep-sea drilling projects, M. Ewing's resistance to plate tectonics theory; M. Ewing's move to University of Texas, Galveston, 1972, choice of new director; Blue Hill Gulf project, 1981-1983; WHOI, 1976-1981, 1983- , chairman, department of geology and geophysics: multi-channeling seismic profile work, transitions affecting earth science research centers in the eighties; reminiscences of family and colleagues.
Collection Name
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory oral history collection
Subjects
Ewing, John; Ewing, Betty; Ewing, W. Maurice (William Maurice), 1906-1974; Columbia University; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
1997
Note (Biographical)
Geophysicist.
Note
Interviewed by Ronald Doel on May 26, 1996, and June 3 and June 28, 1997.
Note (Provenance)
John Ewing, Gift 1998
Language
English
Library Location
Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content
Catalog Record
13572119
Also In
Oral History Archives at Columbia
Time-Based Media
Time-Based Media
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-251f-v193
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.