CONTENTS OF BEN OOSTDAM's


AUTOBIOGRAPHY

as per November 6, 2002

page 11


Year(s) Link-Title Description Page REMARKS
1960 Sep Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), 1960-63: PREFACE i USA
1960 Sep first days in La Jolla: Cabrillo Hotel; La Valencia Hotel; Georgina O' Reilly 1 USA
1960 Sep first day at Scripps: Doug Inman, Helen Flanders, Tijuana, Andy Soutar, Ritter Hall occupants, SIO pier 2 USA
MEXICO
1960 Sep first days at Scripps: names of graduate students, new and old 3 PACIFIC
USA
1960 Sep first semester at SIO: introductory courses and profs: Knauss, Johnson, Goldberg, Inman, Shepard, Stewart, Menard 4 USA
1960 Fall first semester: Baja California, Punta Banda, sailfish, sampling, sandwaves 5 MEXICO
1961 Jan Cabo San Lucas, Brubo d'Anglejan, Shepard, submarine canyon, Conrad Limbaugh's "sandfall" ; CABO SAN LUCAS 6 PACIFIC
MEXICO
1961 Feb-June second semester courses and profs: Arthur, Isaacs, Goldberg, Inman , guest-lecturers, fieldtrips, Ewing Flight 1961,class project and sample 3 x 5 lecture notes 7 USA
1961 Spring FLIP, CUSS I, Experimental Mohole, Bascom, my "roundness" project 8 USA
1961 Spring social life: Heather Hislop, Janet Manley, Ernestine, Barbara Park, X2-Y3, Pomona: AMSTERDAM CONCERTGEBOUW ORCHESTRA , talcum ;o( 9 USA
1961 Spring second semester party life: scenario of banker's wife's party 10 USA
1961 Spring Helen & Russ Rait, "Spencer F. Baird", "CAPRICORN" 11 USA
PACIFIC
1961 June Fieldtrip with Inman to Upper Gulf of California, tidal range exceeds 10m (33ft), Earl Murray, links to Gulf: geology, Colorado River Delta, plankton, chlorophyll-a, diatoms, Steve Calvert 12 USA
GULF OF CALIFORNIA
1961 June "JAPANYON", Ron Gibbs, flying MATS to Tokyo, train to Kyoto, Gravitas, students, ryokan 13 Japan
PACIFIC
SEA OF JAPAN
1961 July JAPANYON Expedition, Francis & Elizabeth Shepard, R.V. "Umitaku Maru", SCUBA diving, horizontal sextant angles, "Aye Aye" 14 Japan
GULF OF TOKYO
1961 July aboard Fisheries R.V.: "Umitaka Maru"; discipline, 'singing psalms', swimming, dredges 15 Japan
GULF OF TOKYO
1961 July Ascent of Mount Fuji Yama 16 Japan
1961 August Diving with the amas off Onjuku, part 1 17 Japan
PACIFIC
1961 August Diving with the amas off Onjuku, part 2 18 Japan
1961 August Kamakura 19 Japan
1961 August last week of Japan: food, Kamakura, Kobe, Nikko, Onjuku 20 Japan
1961 August by MATS to Hawaii, Oahu, jeep, SCUBA dive, "Topless Revisited" 21 Japan,
USA (Hawaii)
PACIFIC
1961 August Main Island, Hawaii, black beaches, Kilauea and the key to magma 22 USA (Hawaii)
PACIFIC
1961 August back at SIO, Ron Gibbs, Bob Mason, Andy, Joan and David Soutar, Harold Urey, Nomad 23 USA
PACIFIC
1961/2 Sep through Jan First Semester, courses, professors,
Bramlette, van Andel, Postma ,
24 USA
PACIFIC
1961/2 Sep through Jan jeep expenses, term papers, Problems of Marine Geology, Marine Micropaleontology,
Sedimentary Petrology, Zonation of Atolls
25 USA
PACIFIC



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