Oral history interview with Gordon Jacoby 1996
Oral history interview with Gordon Jacoby 1996
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- Name
- Jacoby, Gordon (Interviewee)
- Doel, Ronald (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Gordon Jacoby 1996
- Abstract
- Childhood: born Fitchburg, Massachusetts, son of civil engineer, early education in northern New Jersey; short-term enrollment at Vanderbilt University, 1952; service in Marine Corps, 1953-1956; return to Vanderbilt University, 1956-1958; Massachusetts Institute of Technology: mechanical engineering, 1958-1960; Columbia University [CU]: B.S., geology, 1960-1962; CU, University of Arizona: Ph.D., hy drology; Dartmouth University: visiting professorship, meteorology; tree ring analysis: research in Alaska, Los Angleles, Colorado River Basin, Arizona, 1972-1975; association with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory [LDEO]: research on tree rings, water and energy, research at sea; controversy between paleohydrology and stochastic schools of thought: gradual acceptance of tree ring theory; development of tree ring instrumentation, facilities at LDEO; reminiscences of colleagues.
- Collection Name
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory oral history collection
- Subjects
- Tree-rings; Dendrochronology; Jacoby, Gordon; Columbia University; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1996
- Note (Biographical)
- Paleohydrologist.
- Note
- Interviewed by Ronald Doel on March 12, 1996.
- Note (Provenance)
- Gordon Jacoby, Gift 1998
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 13572969
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-1hda-fe17
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.