UC San Diego

Selected documents from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Archives.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives

The California Smokers' Cohort (CSC) is a continuation of a series of triennial surveys, called the California Tobacco Survey (CTS), conducted from 1990 to 2008. The previous CTS is a series of cross-sectional studies to collect information about tobacco use and behaviors among Californians. In 2011, the survey design was modified to survey only smokers, and moreover to perform longitudinal surveys to investigate factors associated with quitting behavior.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Research Data Curation Program

The California Department of Public Health (Previously known as the California Department of Health Services until 2007) is required to conduct surveys of attitudes, behaviors, and media exposure regarding smoking and tobacco use as components of the smoking cessation evaluation effort required by California Assembly Bills AB75, AB99 and AB816. The objective of these surveys is to collect representative statewide data on cigarette smoking behavior, attitudes towards smoking, media exposure to smoking, and use of tobacco products other than cigarettes, from populations living in California. These surveys have been conducted approximately every three years through contracts with the University of ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Research Data Curation Program

Photographs and plans of Camp Matthews buildings after Camp Matthews closed operations in 1964, plus building modifications through 1967. Camp Matthews was a U.S. Army base; the land for the camp became part of the UC San Diego campus site. Images were digitized from originals held by the UC San Diego Library.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives

Single Particle Soot Photometer (SP2) measurements of aerosol refractory black carbon (BC) content for individual particles and Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopic analysis of organic functional groups of submicron particles at Parque Morelos during Cal-Mex 2010 from 15 May to 30 June.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Research Data Curation Program

At Look Rock, TN, aerosol instruments used for this study were housed in a 20’x20’x8’ container with air conditioning set to 21 °C. The nozzle of the inlet for air sampling was ~5 m AGL and the site was at an elevation of 802 m. Ambient air was pulled isokinetically through the inlet at about 900 L min-1 using a blower to provide sufficient bypass air to keep flow conditions constant [Bates et al., 2004]. Sampled air lines were dried by diffusion driers in the van before distribution to instruments. Teflon filters (Teflo, Gelman Sciences, Ann Arbor, MI) were collected ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Research Data Curation Program

Digital cameras are used to capture images in full stereo surround for use in virtual reality systems. These images can cover any field of view, including 360° by 180° spherical panoramas. Two photographic cylinders are created with identical dimensions, capturing the perspective as seen from each eye position. When these cylinders are mapped to a spherical surface, full stereo in all directions is achieved. This technique allows photographic imaging to create the virtual environment itself. The complete stereo image that is created by this technique can be viewed in any direction that is supported by the virtual reality system design.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Research Data Curation Program

A small collection of the family papers of American painter John Gadsby Chapman (1808-1898), consisting mostly of letters to Chapman from colleagues and associates, and correspondence with his son, Conrad Wise Chapman. Of special interest are Conrad Chapman's letters to his family, written while he served in the Confederate army during the Civil War. These letters, dating from the years 1861 to 1865, provide details on Conrad's experiences in the Confederate army, and include a set of undated drafts which form an extended diary in letter form. In his letters, Conrad writes of forced marches, sleeping on wet straw, the ...

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives

Charles Atwood Kofoid (1865-1947) was a noted zoologist at the University of California, Berkeley and early advocate for the development of a marine station in La Jolla that would later become the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Selected materials from his papers have been digitized. Digitized items include photographs of Charles and his wife, Carrie Winter Kofoid; their families, friends and colleagues; travel; the 1904-1905 Albatross Expedition; and many freshwater and marine biological research stations, some of which were included in Kofoid's book, The Biological Stations of Europe.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives

Film and color slides created for and used in a photographic documentary of early UCSD events from 1963 to 1967. The project documents the construction of Revelle College campus, various campus events, political and social activities of the first undergraduate classes. The original film and color slides are held by the UC San Diego Library.

Institution: UC San Diego, Library, Special Collections and Archives