UC San Diego

The Ben Yellen Papers document grassroots social and political activism on the subjects of farm labor, commercial agriculture, and western water policy in Southern California. In 1942, Ben Yellen (1907-1994) settled in the town of Brawley in Imperial County, California, the center of one of the richest and most productive agricultural regions in the United States. In the late 1950s, Yellen initiated a protracted battle against the large-scale growers who dominated the region's economy and their representative institutions, including the Desert Growers Association and, especially, the Imperial Irrigation District (IID). The digitized portion of the collection focuses on Yellen's self-published …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

Audiovisual recordings from the collections of Los Angeles-based poet Bill Mohr. These recordings include poetry readings and events, as well as master recordings of Mohr's spoken word works "Chromozones" and "Vehemence." Mohr was an attendee of the Idyllwild Arts Summer Poetry Program, and full recordings from the 2005 and 2006 summers are included. This online selection also includes recordings of the show "Put Your Ears On," from items in his papers and the archive of Momentum Press. Put Your Ears On was a reading and performance show, hosted by Bill Mohr, and originally aired on local cable television. Prominent guests …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

This collection contains the data in BindingDB, a large database launched in 2000 that supports research, education and practice in drug discovery, pharmacology, computer-aided drug design, machine-learning and artificial intelligence, and related fields by collecting experimentally measured protein-small molecule binding data, as well as selected collections of other types of binding data, such as host-guest and protein-protein, chiefly from scientific articles and patents.

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

A selection of digital and digitized files from the Border Art Workshop/Tallér de Arte Fronterízo Records, collected by artist and organizer Michael Schnorr. As of 2024, the bulk of the files are short digital videos, with the addition of some images, that were all originally saved to optical disks. The presentation of online content from this collection is expected to grow.

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

The California American Indian Tobacco Initiative Evaluation (CAITIE) was tasked by the California Tobacco Prevention Program at the California Department of Public Health (CTPP-CDPH) to evaluate the American Indian Initiative, a state-funded program that directly funds California Native governments and organizations to develop locally effective commercial tobacco prevention programming. The evaluation aimed to assess the grant's effectiveness in: (1) building capacity and skills within Tribal communities for commercial tobacco prevention and reduction interventions, (2) mobilizing and engaging community residents and governments to support policy and system changes, and (3) enhancing the implementation, support, and evaluation of Tribal policy and system …

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) are a unique partnership of the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, NOAA Fisheries Service and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The organization was formed in 1949 to study the ecological aspects of the sardine population collapse off California. Today the focus has shifted to the study of the marine environment off the coast of California, the management of its living resources, and monitoring the effects of climate variability and climate change. CalCOFI conducts quarterly cruises off southern & central California, collecting a suite of hydrographic and biological data on station and underway. Data …

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

The California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) organization is a unique partnership of the California Department of Fish & Wildlife, NOAA Fisheries Service and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The organization was formed in 1949 to study the ecological aspects of the sardine population collapse off California. Today the focus has shifted to the study of the marine environment off the coast of California, the management of its living resources, and monitoring the indicators of El Nino and climate change. CalCOFI conducts quarterly cruises off southern & central California, collecting a suite of hydrographic and biological data on station and underway. …

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

Through a collaboration between NOAA Fisheries Service, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and California Department of Fish & Wildlife, a cooperative was formed in 1949 to study and document the California Current. This group was named California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI). It was initially charged with studying the collapse of the sardine population off California and has evolved over the years to study many aspects of oceanography and marine life. Four times each year, research cruises disembark from California to stop at prescribed sampling locations to monitor the ecology of fish populations and oceanographic parameters that can be used as …

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program

This collection consists of historical essays, research notes, and a small number of photographs created between 1936 and 1940 on select California landmarks, monuments and state parks. The California Department of Parks and Recreation, in conjunction with the Federal Writers' Project (a component of the federal Works Progress Administration), produced a series of descriptive historical essays and monographs on the state's important landmarks, monuments and state parks. Project editors were Clark Wing and Vernon Aubrey Neasham. Project writers included George Walcott Ames Jr., Christian Ecklon, Andrew Eggum, Russell C. Ewing, John Samuel Fox, Chester Lyle Gutherie, Esther Harlan, Oscar Houmann, …

Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

California local tax measure archive, 1986 to 2012.

Institution: UC San Diego, Research Data Curation Program