Oceanography at Oregon State University: The First Two Decades 1954-1975

[Corvallis, Oregon]: Printed by Department of Printing, Oregon State University, 1998. Hardcover. Very Good. Signed by Author(s). Signed by Miriam Ludwig on title page. Dark blue leatherette boards with gilt lettering; color pictorial on the front cover. From a non-public residential library (small rubber stamp on ffep; pocket on rear paste down; light label residue on spine, else clean). Illustrated. Index. pp. xiv, 225. Scarce. Signed by co-author Miriam Ludwig, who served as the oceanography librarian at OSU from 1968 to 1988. A history of the Department (later School) of Oceanography at Oregon State University between 1954 and 1975, describing its founding, development, research and education, programs, technical developments, personnel, funding, buildings, and ships. Includes lists of the faculty, regular staff, and administrative assistants during those years, the names of advanced degree graduates (providing year, field, degree), and the titles and authors of research/contract reports produced within each discipline (physical oceanography, chemical oceanography, biological oceanography, geological oceanography, and geophysics). More than twenty pages are devoted to the ships utilized by the department.