Research Catalog

Title

A collection of instrumentation papers presented at the Marine Sciences Conference held September 11-15, 1961, at Woods Hole, Mass., sponsored by the Instrument Society of America and the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography; and, papers from the marine sciences sessions of the 1961 Instrument Society of America Symposia, held at Toronto and Los Angeles. Editors: Roy D. Gaul [and others]

Author

Marine Sciences Instrumentation Symposium (1961 : Woods Hole, Mass.)

Publication

New York, Distributed by Plenum Press [1962]

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Gaul, R. D.
• Instrument Society of America.
• American Society of Limnology and Oceanography.
• Instrument Society of America Symposia (1961)

Description

354 p. illus.; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Marine sciences instrumentation ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Marine sciences instrumentation ; v. 1.

Subject

• Oceanographic instruments
• Oceanographic instruments > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The design and installation of the fixed acoustic buoy / Richard P. Oberlin -- The quiet platform, key to successful oceanographic acoustic research / A. Donn Cobb -- Instrumentation for the measurement of hydrodynamic flow-noise / Chester L. Wakamo and Robert C. Fitzpatrick -- Acoustical noise measuring buoy with digital data recording / T.F. Hueter, D.M. Baker and J.T. Shaw -- Deep transducer design / R.P. Delaney -- Location of underwater or surface sound sources by means of computer-linked cabled-hydrophone fields / James H. Morrissey -- Effects of the spectral composition of random thermal variations on phase and amplitude fluctuations of a sound wave propagating in the sea / Aimo Salenius -- A telemetering thermometer / Angelo J. Campanella -- A long-range, oceanographic telemetering system / Robert G. Walden and David H. Frantz Jr. -- A data acquisition and reduction system for oceanographic measurements / David D. Ketchum and Raymond G. Stevens --^
• The problems of reliable long-range transmission of remote oceanographic measurements / C. McLoon -- A data processing and display instrument for oceanographic research / Joseph T. Laing -- Timing control methods available for self-contained recording systems / Alexander L.M. Dingee Jr. and A. Fred Feyling -- A concept for a remotely interrogated synoptic oceanographic data sampling buoy / Richard A. Zlotky -- Data recording device for underwater instrumentation / Jay W. Harford and Earl D. Van Reenan -- Progress report on transit / R.B. Kershner -- Influence of a high hydrostatic pressure environment on electronic components / Chester L. Buchanan and Matthew Flato -- Internal waves and their measurement / E.C. LaFond -- Quantitative multiple opening-and-closing plankton samplers / Allan W.H. Bé -- Long-range outlook for oceanographic telemetering / James M. Snodgrass -- The SVTP instrument and some applications to oceanography / J.R. Lovett --^
• The world's longest salt bridge / Paul C. Mangelsdorf Jr. -- An instrument for the direct measurement of the speed of sound in the ocean / F.J. Suellentrop, A.E. Brown and Eric Rule -- An acoustic ocean-current meter / F.J. Suellentrop, A.E. Brown and Eric Rule -- A Doppler-shift ocean-current meter / J.D. Chalupnik and P.S. Green -- High-accuracy, self-calibrating acoustic low meters / R.A. Lester -- Current measurements from moored buoys / William S. Richardson -- Deep current measurements near Bermuda / Raymond F. McAllister -- Sea state -- effects and problems / Lee M. Hunt -- The bathypage / A.A. Mills -- An external core-retainer / A.A. Mills -- Some new mechanical devices for oceanographic research / Shale J. Niskin -- Use of the precision graphic recorder (PGR) in oceanography / S.T. Knott -- Inverted echo sounder / Willard Dow and Stephen L. Stillman -- A bottom strip map camera / Angelo J. Campanella --^
• Some recent advances in underwater camera equipment / Harold E. Edgerton and Samuel O. Raymond -- A complete sonar thumper seismic system / Earl D. Van Reenan -- Thermoelectric power for oceanographic research / Melvin Barmat -- Application of modern remote handling techniques to oceanography / John W. Clark -- Porpoise -- oceanographic research vehicle / W.L. Cannon -- Scuba as a tool for scientists / Eugene K. Parker -- Equipment for observation of the natural electromagnetic background in the frequency range 0.01-30 cycles per second / W.N. English [and others] -- Oxygen and carbon dioxide instrumentation / John W. Kanwisher -- An analysis of a class of pattern recognition networks / Laveen Kanal -- An adaptive correlator for underwater measurements / Alfred A. Wolf and J.H. Dietz.

LCCN

^^^62005915^//r63

OCLC

511945

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library