Munk, Walter H. (Walter Heinrich), 1917-
Walter Heinrich Munk papers, 1944-1988.
Includes Munk's scientific papers and speeches, computer programs, and data files, graphs, raw data, correspondence and papers, itineraries, memoranda, notes, conferences and symposiums, as well as slides and photographs. The people series consists of correspondence exchanged with sir Edward Crisp Bullarad, Cecil H. Green, Andrei Monin, Frank Press, Roger Randall Dougan Revelle, Henry Stommel and Harald Ulrik Sverdrup. The committee series includes material concerning the American Miscellaneous Society. The travel series documents Munk's trips to the Peoples's Republic of China (1977 and 1978). The series also documents Munk's participation in expedition to the Arctic (1949), Bikini Atoll (Crossroads, 1946), and his work on the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Capricorn Expedition (1952). The slides consist of 602 images of waves, acoustics, breakers, tsunamis, tides and the campus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Geophysicist and oceanographer. Munk received his B. S. and M. S. degrees from the California Institute of Technology in 1939 and 1940 and his Ph. D. in 1947. Munk served as assistant and associate professor of geophysics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1947 to 1954 when he became professor of geophysics in the University of California Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics. Munk founded the Instittue and served as its director from 1959 to 1984. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Philosphical Society, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society. He has served on several panels of the President's Scientific Advisory Council. Munk's work concentrates on the study of ocean waves and currents, air-sea interaction and the prediction of surf conditions. His more recent studies have investigated the role of ocean processes in determing the variability of sound transmission through the ocean. Munk is the recipient of many awards and medals including the National Medal of Science.
Operation Crossroads, 1946.
Scripps Institution of Oceanography -- Photographs.
Marine sciences.
Ocean -- Research.
Ocean -- Research -- Data bases.
Ocean waves -- Photographs.
Oceanographers -- Travel -- China.
Oceanography -- Congresses.
Oceanography -- Research.
Scientific expeditions -- Arctic regions.
Tides -- Photographs.
Tsunamis -- Photographs.
Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands).
Computer files. aat
Graphs. aat aat
Itineraries. aat
Geophysicists. lcsh
Oceanographers. lcsh
Physicists. lcsh
Computer programs. lcsh
Sound -- Photographs.
Bullard, Edward Crisp, Sir, 1907-1980.
Green, Cecil Howard, 1900-2003-
Monin, A. S. (Andrei Sergeevich), 1921-
Press, Frank.
Revelle, Roger, 1909-
Stommel, Henry M., 1920-
Sverdrup, H. U. (Harald Ulrik), 1888-1957.
American Miscellaneous Society.
Capricorn Expedition (1952-1953)
AIP-ICOS
University of California, San Diego. Archives of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. University of California, San Diego Mail Code C-075-C. La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, USA