|
Items in cart [0] |
Questions? Call 888-624-8373 |
HARDBACK PDF BOOK Free Resources |
||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Copyright © 2009. National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. Terms of Use and Privacy Statement |
Below are the first 10 and last 10 pages of uncorrected machine-read text (when available) of this chapter, followed by the top 30 algorithmically extracted key phrases from the chapter as a whole.
Intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text on the opening pages of each chapter.
Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.
Do not use for reproduction, copying, pasting, or reading; exclusively for search engines.
OCR for page 88
at:
o
~4
O ~
~ U)
O
O _
O ·~
_ _
.~ ~
O
.~
~7
C ~
._
i_ · ~
I Cot ~
OCR for page 89
JOHN DOVE ISAACS III
March 2S, Z 913-June 6, ~ 980
BY WILLARD BASCOM
T O H N D O V E ~ S A A C S ~ ~ ~ was born in Spokane, Washing-
~Jton, anct he was raised in Oregon where his maternal
grandparents had locater! after crossing the plains by wagon
train. His paternal grandfather, John D. Tsaacs, Sr., was chief
consulting engineer for the Southern Pacific and Union Pa-
cific systems, which was of particular import to John who
vastly enjoyed travels with his grandfather in his private rail-
roac! car. A bronze plaque at Stanford University credits the
senior Isaacs with conceiving ancT developing the principle of
making motion pictures; the first photographic experiments
were carried out with Edward Muybriclge at Leland Stan-
ford's farm in Palo Alto, California. Johns father, also a rail-
roac! engineer, client in a hunting accident when John was six.
During his chilclhooct, John liver! on the 20,000-acre Hay
Creek Ranch in central Oregon with his mother, his sister
Emily, and his favorite aunt ant] uncle. Later he movecT to his
pioneer grandparents' first ranch home near PendIeton, Or-
egon. Ranch life gave him a solid background in practical
ecology as well as an opportunity for his strong naturalist
instincts to clevelop.
Early in life John showoct intense scientific curiosity and a
capacity for invention. As a PencIleton High School student
in the early 1930s, he proposed to his physics teacher a way
89
OCR for page 90
go
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
of detecting ctistant objects by means of reflected ractio waves.
(Unfortunately, the fellow clict not grasp the possibilities anct
thereby lost an opportunity to become a coinventor of radar.)
To his chemistry teacher, he had to confess that his chemistry
lab was the scene of the procluction of the hydrogen-plus-
acetylene balloons that had recently been exploding over
PendIeton and that had even ripped the shingles off the min-
ister's roof.
Young John enjoyed reading encyclopedias, and he had
an excellent memory. As an aclult he would sometimes launch
into detailed dissertations on esoteric subjects such as the
complex life cycles of oriental parasites that he had read
twenty to thirty years earlier.
In 1933 he joiner! the new Civilian Conservation Corps.
He became a camp office manager and because there was
a good supply of logging and construction accidents as well
as stabbings anct shootings- an accident investigator. Two
years later John became camp manager at Cape Perpetua,
Oregon, a Resettlement Administration facility. (The Reset-
tlement Administration was a New Deal agency that resettled
low-income local families on more productive lands.) By the
following year he had saved enough money to return to col-
lege at Oregon State, where one of the attractions was Mary
Carol Zander.
When school was out, John got a job as a forestry service
lookout on Mt. Hebo in the Siuslaw National Forest. When it
wasn't raining, this meant twenty-four hours a day atop a
high tower accompanied only by Sampson, his trusty cat.
During the period Tsaacs spent in Oregon's coastal forest, he
Earned not only the names of all the trees and the under-
growth plants but also the intricate relationship among them
ant! how it changed with logging and fires. In later life when
he would drive along the highway, he would amuse himself,
OCR for page 91
JOHN DOVE ISAACS III
91
and sometimes his companions, by intoning the Latin names
of each species of passing tree. One of the monuments he
leaves behinct is the stand of one thousand trees he planted
on his estate in Rancho Santa Fe, California.
In 1938 he moved to Astoria, Oregon, just as a great run
of albacore tuna appeared offshore. It was said that everyone
in Oregon who tract a lettuce crate went after the albacore;
John was no exception. He joiner! with a friend who owned
a small boat just a little bigger than a lettuce crate. After long
hours of work to make it reacly for fishing, John took the
boat well out to sea for a test run. Coming back into the
Columbia River entrance always a scary experience in a
small boat events occurred] that almost proved fatal. The
boat's engine coughed ancI stopped dead in the turbulent
waters of the bar. After frantic work, John realizect there was
no chance of getting it running again and that the boat would
soon crash on the jetty. He stripper! off his shoes anct pants,
put on a life jacket, anct committed himself to the river. He
vaguely remembered seeing one large wave fling the boat on
the unforgiving rocks anc! watching splinters drift away.
After half an hour in the icy waters he was picked up by a
passing tug. The crew put him in a cold shower to warm him
up; he remembered it as scalding in relation to the river. It
was thought at the time that one couIc! not survive in those
rough frigid waters more than 10 minutes, but he knew by
his watch otherwise. His body was black and blue, totally
bruised from head to foot, anc} he was harcIly able to walk
for some time after the orcleal.
The next clay John ancT Mary Carol walkecI out on the
jetty. She found the only surviving relics of the wreck: his
trousers with his wallet in the pocket, and in it his social se-
curity caret. He carried the caret for the rest of his life as a
reminder of his good luck that near-tragic day. Later in that
OCR for page 92
92
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
year the two were married. The young pair occupied the
captain's cabin and officer's quarters aboard the sailing ship
William Taylor, which was moored in Young's Bay near Astoria.
As a young commercial fisherman working out of the Co-
lumbia River, Isaacs was outraged one day by a passing tourist
who said something to the effect that "these fishermen don't
know much about what they're doing." John—with a 6-foot
3-inch frame and one of the highest recorded I.Q.'s in the
state of Oregon rather firmly suggested that this unwary
soul sit down and observe while he dissected a salmon and
explained in detail the function of each organ and tissue.
John Isaacs was a fisherman throughout his life, and he
appeared to enjoy cold, wet, miserable weather as long as he
could fish. He felt he could think better with a fishing pole
in hand. Some of his best thoughts about who eats whom in
the sea, under what conditions, and how the sea's biological
energy is distributed were developed over fifty years of ran-
dom observations. These were set down finally in a landmark
piece in Scientific American entitled "The Nature of Oceanic
Life" illustrated, of course, with photos of deep sea crea-
tures taken by his monster camera. But that was much later.
As a commercial fisherman with a boat that was consid-
ered large for the pre-World War IT period, John and oc-
casionally Mary Carol would fish out of the Columbia River,
sometimes going north to Grays Harbor or the QuilIayute
River, or south to TilIamook Bay. It was the perfect school
for a future oceanographer and it left him with an ever-ready
bag of stories, as well as a good sense of the lore of the sea.
After two years of commercial fishing John and Mary
Carol returned to school and spent the academic year of
1940-41 at Oregon State University. Afterward John took a
job with a survey crew on the construction of Tongue Point
Naval Air Station near Astoria, Oregon. As various construc-
tion problems arose, John devised solutions that moved him
OCR for page 93
JOHN DOVE ISAACS III
93
rapidly up the job ladder. For example, the ceiling beams in
one of the buildings under construction flexed excessively
because of poor design. To solve the problem, Isaacs derived
the formula for computing bending stresses in beams and
redesigned the offending structure "so the plaster below
would stay on." When the chief engineer unexpectedly quit,
he was offered the job. In 1943-44 Isaacs studied at the Uni-
versity of California at Berkeley, receiving a B.S. in civil en-
gineering, his only degree. While at Berkeley he came to
know and appreciate Dean Morrough (Mike) O'Brien who
greatly influenced his life.
Thereafter he spent his life with the University of Cali-
fornia, beginning as a research engineer on the WAVES Proj-
ect at Berkeley, which is where ~ met him. {ohn's enthusiasm
for the sea and his sense of humor attracted me to him at
once. After listening to him for two hours on our first en-
counter in 1945, ~ switched immediately from mining to
oceanography. The following week we began surveying the
beaches of northern California, Oregon, and Washington
using amphibious trucks (DUKWS), seaplanes, radio-con-
trolled cameras, and a small party of men who didn't mind
daily dousings in cold seawater. In the late 1940s at Berkeley
he invented such things as a wave direction indicator using a
Rayleigh disc, several varieties of wave meters, a wave-
propelled "sea-sled" to carry surveying rods through the surf
zone, and a means of measuring and modeling stress in tor-
pedo nets. Later he and T worked together measuring the
effects of nuclear explosions in Eniwetok and Bikini.
John Isaacs was present at four nuclear test series; he es-
pecially distinguished himself during two of them. The first
was Crossroads in 1946 for which {ohn's job was to measure
waves from the blasts. For this purpose he arranged to have
large aerial cameras (with a film size of 9 by ~ ~ inches) set up
on two camera towers on Bikini Island. These cameras were
OCR for page 94
94
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
to be started a little before the explosion, simultaneously tak-
ing a picture every three seconds for several minutes. This
wave-measuring technique had previously been tested on the
northern California coast, but at Bikini the problem was a
little different.
Because the objective of that first test was to learn the
ejects of an airburst anc! an underwater burst on a fleet of
warships, it was necessary to know the exact distances be-
tween the explosions and specific parts of each ship. The
ships were to be anchored, and the original plan hacI been to
run aerial photo sorties over the fleet a day or two before the
shot. These were to have been assemblec} in a mosaic in order
to determine the distances from ship to shot. As any seaman
knows, however, ships at anchor move about in a "watch
circle" whose radius is the anchor line, which is at least three
times the depth of the water (some 200 feet in Bikini lagoon).
it. . .. . it. ~ .
.
AS a result, matching successive lines ot pictures was impos-
sible; between photo runs some ships had moved several hun-
cirect feet. Weapons effects decrease as the cube root of the
distance; thus such errors in position were unacceptable.
At the uncomfortable moment when this funciamental
flaw in the great test was discoverecI, Isaacs' proposal to use
the wave-measuring cameras to triangulate ship positions was
gratefully accepted. For months afterward he had a group
of people using a traveling microscope mounted on a large
steel micrometer stage measuring photos and precisely com-
puting the position of ships in the test fleet. The wave mea-
surements became almost inciclental. Using automatic cam-
eras that fire every three seconds he had the fantastic luck to
get a picture of the Baker shot's lightect bubble breaking the
surface.
During the Castle series at Bikini in 1954, John became
very concerned about the possibility of the shots causing a
tidal wave that wouIc} wash over some of the islets on which
OCR for page 95
JOHN DOVE ISAACS III
95
people were intending to stay during the shot. Some of us
thought there was little likelihoocT of that happening because
John was jokingly known as a "calamatologist" (who often
foresaw unlikely calamities). Nevertheless, he tract the ear of
the acimiral, and at the last minute, just to be on the safe sicle,
that worthy orderer! everyone except the firing team off the
atoll.
The first shot of the series (Bravo) went with about twice
the expected yield. When it diet, it destroyed many camp
builctings on the islancts and dumped heavy radioactivity on
the atoll. The firing party was trapped in the bunker for a
time, ant! no one went back ashore for several days. There
was no substantial ticial wave, but ~ am convinced that if
Isaacs' hunch tract not been followed, lives would have been
lost both to the blast and the subsequent radioactivity.
John Isaacs likect to think, ant! the more complex the sub-
ject, the better he liked it. Some of his favorite topics were
far from oceanography. They incluclect such diverse matters
as black holes in space, the groun(lwaters of the upper Indus
valley, growing foot] plants in saline water, and esoteric as-
pects of mine warfare. He clip not think in mathematical
terms, but in later fire he wrote equations for ideas that to
him were self-eviclent.
.
John philosophizect about a great many diverse subjects
~nclucting economics ("The more money is expended for
nothing, the more it approaches nothing as a value," and
Whiteheact's universe where "the possibilities are not only in-
finite but actually. He revitalizect Epimetheus, the hincI-
thinker, rampant on a field of greenbacks, who proposed
panaceas for vaguely clefined scientific problems. Ant! he
worried about the communications disjuncture between
those who possess scientific unclerstancting and those who are
responsible for the direction of governmental action.
John was a big man with quick reactions, but he was not
OCR for page 96
96
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
especially athletically inctinecI. Insteact he playecI games like
"slaphancts" in which two persons face each other and extend
their hands, each parallel to the other's, but with the hancts
below, palms up. The object is for the hands below to slap
the back of the hancis above. No one came close to beating
Isaacs at this. He was also expert at ping pony and clelightect
in "teaching" it to graduate students who had an overly high
opinion of their prowess. He lovect chess, including blind
chess, Kriegspiel, and triple cylinclrical chess, but he often
had a hard time fincting worthy opponents.
Isaacs tract a marvelous sense of humor that began with
outrageous puns and extencled upward to jokes that were so
sophisticated that almost no one wouIct get the point. Having
deliverecl some such witicism he would cautiously look
arounc! the audience to see if anyone had caught on. On such
occasions ~ would just perceptibly move my head from sicle
to side to show that his remarks tract not gone completely
unnoticed but as a matter of principle ~ never cracked a
smile. Isaacs was in his glory when it became fashionable to
devise a horrid form of joke known as a Tom Swifty. As with
puns he was always trying to invent ones with double anct
triple meanings. These were marvelously idiotic, and when
we all laughed he would be encoura~er1 to attempt an even
more outrageous version.
John Isaacs moved from Berkeley to the Scripps Institu-
tion of Oceanography in 1948. From this vantage point he
conic! involve himself wholly in all aspects of sea studies.
About that time he heard of the existence of huge fresh-
water icebergs in the Antarctic, some ten miles long and a
mile wicle. He promptly set about thinking of ways in which
they could be used to increase California's water supply.
Isaacs posited that they could be towed into the Peru current,
which wouIct move them north to the equatorial currents,
which wouIc! carry them westward] and into the Kuro Siwa,
OCR for page 97
JOHN DOVE ISAACS III
97
which would move them eastward toward Vancouver and
eventually south along the California coast. The ice wouIct
take on a streamlinecl form as it moved, powered by a tem-
perature-di~erence "engine"; and it would produce more
water from rain than from ice melt. Eventually somehow-
the berg would be parked behinct Catalina Islanct. The worst
objection to this plan was that it would change the weather
in southern California. In a year or so we founct that this idea
hac! been invented several times before, but by then Isaacs
had gone on to bigger schemes.
Isaacs' curiosity about the animals that live in the depths
lee! to the development (with Lewis Kidd) of the Isaacs-Kictd
mic~water trawl. This net had a hyctrodynamic depressor
across the bottom to hold it down while being towoc! at a
depth of several hundrecI meters. He was also keen on mak-
ing photos of the animals that live on the creep-sea bottom.
In the late 1960s, in association with Richard SchwartzIose,
Richard Shutts, anct others, he developed baited automatic
cameras that were freely released in water as much as 7 km
deep and recovered a clay later. In several places he photo-
graphec3 a surprisingly large number of active invertebrates,
fishes, and some gigantic sharks that changed man's thinking
about the sparsity of life at such depths. The nets anct the
cameras were extensions of his senses as he sought to fincI
out: What's going on down there?
In ~ 958 he became head of the Marine Life Research Pro-
gram, which was concerned! with discovering whether man's
overfishing or pollution hac] caused sarclines to disappear
from California waters in the early 1950s. His unconven-
tional approach was to examine (with Andrew Soutar) the
yearly layers of unclisturbed sediment layers in the Santa Bar-
bara Basin. These layers contained the scales of fish species
going back for some 1,200 years. Counting the scales, year
by year, showed that sardines tract for natural reasons-
OCR for page 98
98
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
come anct gone many times before man arrived. This led to
a new question: Why were sardines so plentiful when they
were present? The answer is not yet known.
In 1950 ~ invented the deep taut-moorect buoy and usect
it for wave measurements at the nuclear shots. The buoy was
helc! about 100 feet beneath the sea surface by a slencler steel
wire some 6,000 feet long; the wire connected the buoy to a
heavy anchor clump installed on a sea-mount, which fur-
nishec! a steady platform for instruments in creep water. John
always wanted to "go me one better," and in 1966 he devisecI
the "sky hook." The sky hook was a taut-moored earth sat-
ellite that was to be helct just beyond synchronous orbit by a
wire. If it couic! be built it wouIc! permit large amounts of
material to be moved into space without the use of rockets.
Aside from the problem of actually constructing this device,
however, the wire into space required a tensile strength far
beyond any known material. Someday it may be possible; in
the meantime the idea has been duly credited in Arthur
CIarke's book, The Fountains of Paract~se.
While thinking about how to deal with sea mines activated
by a ship's pressure signal, Isaacs also devised a ship hull that
trapper! its own waves. This was basically an ordinary hull,
"sliced" clown the midctle, with the pieces transposed and
separated by a closed bottom so that only straight sides were
exposed. The propeller was between the hulls, and the ship
carried a substantial breaking wave just inside the stern, the
forward] part being a raceway. ~ pilotect a mocle! of it through
a number of test runs without disturbing the surface of a
glassy reservoir.
Later, Isaacs anct Hugh Bradner proposed that the earth
might be appreciably heated by neutrinos. John Isaacs also
gave a good clear of thought to the matter of extracting power
from the sea. In 1954 he studiect the CIaucle thermal differ-
ence process and started to build a resonant wave pump for
OCR for page 113
J
fOHN DOVE ISAACS III
113
1961
Underwater inspection methods. In: Syllabus of On-Site Inspection of
Unidentified Seismic Events, pp. 141-50. Stanford, Calif.: Stan-
ford Research Institute.
Capacity of the oceans. Int. Sci. Technol. (prototype):38-43.
With G. B. Schick. Underwater remote programming. Undersea
Technol., 2~6~:29-32.
1962
With L. M. K. Boelter, D. M. Bonner, L. A. Bromley, D. E. Carritt
(chairman), B. F. Dodge, E. Epstein, H. P. Gregor, G. A. Jeffrey,
J. J. Katz, K. A. Kraus, G. W. Murphy, and T. K. Sherwood.
Desalination Research and the Water Problem. (Presented at Desal-
ination Research Conference, Woods Hole, Massachusetts,
June-July 1961.) NAS-NRC Publ. no. 941. 85 pp.
Note on an association of cumulus clouds and turbid water. I. Geo-
phys. Res., 67~5~:2076-77.
Editor. Disposal of Lozo-Level Radioactive Waste into Pacific Coastal
Waters. (A report of a working group of the Committee on
Oceanography.) NA~NRC Publ. no. 985. 87 pp.
Mechanism and extent of the early dispersion of radioactive prod-
ucts in water. (Revision of 1955 report.) Operation Wigwam,
MA 1955, Proj. 2.6-1. Defense Atomic Support Agency Report
WT-1014.
1963
With I. L. Faughn, G. B. Schick, and M. C. Sargent. Deep-sea
moorings: Design and use with unmanned instrument stations.
Bull. Scripps Inst. Oceanogr., 8~3~:271-312.
Deep-sea anchoring and mooring. In: The Sea, vol. 2, ed. M. N.
Hill, pp. 516-27. New York: Interscience; John Wiley & Sons.
The water dilemma. In: The Impact of Science, pp.41-49. (Proceed-
ings of conference no.4 of the conference series, California and
the Challenge of Growth, San Diego, University of California,
Berkeley, June 1963.)
With W. R. Schmitt. Resources from the sea. Int. Sci. Technol.,
~une:39-45.
Atmospheric jet streams. Science, 141~35851: 1045-46.
OCR for page 114
4
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
World Book Encyclopedia contributions (since 1958~: Aegean Sea, Sea
of Azov, Bay of Biscay, Bosporus, Caspian Sea, River Derwent,
English Channel, Fiord (Fjord), Inchcape Rock, Ionian Sea, Sea
of Marmara, Strait of Messina, North Sea, Ruhr River, Scapa
Flow, and White Sea. New York: McGraw-Hill.
1964
Discussion of "Considerations on the siting of outfalls for the sea
disposal of radioactive effluent in tidal waters" by R. T. P. Whip-
ple. In: Advances in Water Pollution Research, vol. 3, ed. E. A.
Pearson, pp. 26-35. (Proceedings of the International Confer-
ence, London, September 1962.) Oxford: Pergamon Press.
California and the world ocean. In: Proceedings of the Governor's Con-
ference, Colloquy, and Forum. Los Angelo T~n,,~rv .31_ F~hr'~nrv
1, pp. 97-106.
Explosively created harbors. In: Engineering with Nuclear Explosives,
pp. 335-54. (Proceedings of the Third Plowshare Symposium,
University of California, Davis, April 1964.) U.S. Atomic Energy
Commission, Division of Technical Information no. TID-7695.
Washington, D.C.
Night-caught and day-caught larvae of the California sardine. Sci-
ence, 144~3622~: 1132-33.
The planetary water problem. In: Proceedings of the First Interna-
tional Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, New York,
June, pp. II-1 to II-13.
With H. Bradner. Neutrino and geothermal fluxes. I. Geophys.
Res., 69~181:3883-87.
~ o ~ ~ a ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ^ ~
1965
Possible oceanographic and related observations from satellites. In:
Oceanography from Space, ed. G. C. Ewing, p.51. (Proceedings of
Conference on the Feasibility of Conducting Oceanographic
Explorations from Aircraft, Manned Orbital, and Lunar Lab-
oratories, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, August 1964.) Woods
Hole Oceanographic Institution Reference no. 65-10.
With B. Polk. New techniques, new esthetic. Landscape, 14~31:3-
5.
Larval sardine and anchovy interrelationships. Calif. Coop. Oce-
anic Fish. Invest. Rep., 10: 102-40.
OCR for page 115
JOHN DOVE ISAACS III
115
With R. A. Schwartzlose. Migrant sound scatterers: Interaction
with the sea floor. Science, 150~37051:1810-13.
With G. B. Schick, M. H. Sessions, and R. A. Schwartzlose. Devel-
opment and testing of taut-nylon moored instrument stations
(with details of design and construction). Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, SIO Reference no. 65-5.
An historical study of the eastern North Pacific. In: Final report,
Junior College Workshop in Biology, pp. 23-29. California De-
partment of Education.
1966
With A. C. Vine, H. Bradner, and G. E. Backus. Satellite elongation
into a true "sky-hook." Science,151~37111:682-83. (Further dis-
cussion in: Science, 152~3723]:800 and 158~3803l:946-47.)
The sea and man. Portal (first edition), pp. 18-28.
With I. L. Reid, fir., G. B. Schick, and R. A. Schwartzlose. Near-
bottom currents measured in 4 kilometers depth off the Baja
California coast. J. Geophys. Res., 71~18~:4297-303.
With D. M. Brown. Isaacs-Brown opening, closing trawl. Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, SIO Reference no. 66-18.
1967
Food from the sea. Int. Sci. Technol., April: 61-68.
Large-scale anomalous sea surface conditions in the North Pacific.
In: Proceedings of the Fourth U.S. Navy Symposium on Military
Oceanography, Washington, D.C., May.
With R. Radok and W. Munk. A note on mid-ocean internal tides.
Deep-Sea Res., 14: 121-24.
Remarks on some present and future buoy developments. In:
Transactions of the Second International Buoy Technology Symposium,
Washington, D.C., September, pp. 503-29. Marine Technology
Society.
The oceans and man. Ariz. Eng. Sci., December:4, 6.
1968
With G. B. Schick and M. H. Sessions. Autonomous instruments
in oceanographic research. In: Marine Sciences Instrumentation,
vol. 4. ed. F. Alt, pp. 203-30. (Proceedings of the Fourth Na-
OCR for page 116
116
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
tional ISA Marine Sciences Instrumentation Symposium, Cocoa
Beach, Florida, January.) New York: Plenum Press.
With M. H. Sessions and R. A. Schwartzlose. A camera system for
the observation of deep-sea marine life. In: Proceedings of the
Underwater Photooptical Instrumentation Applications Seminar, San
Diego, California, February. Society of Photooptical Instrumen-
tation Engineers.
With D. M. Brown. "Bootstrap" corer. I. Sediment. Petrol., 38~1~:
159-62.
The North Pacific study. In: Proceedings of the Third Marine Systems
and ASW Meeting, San Diego, California, April 29—May 1. Am.
Inst. Aeronaut. Astronaut., AIAA Paper no. 68-475.
Oceans without megohms (a twenty-year baptism of electronics by
seawater—a report). In: Electronics Serving Mankind, pp. 1-5.
(Proceedings of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics En-
gineers, Region Six Conference, Portland, Oregon, May.) New
York: IEEE.
General features of the ocean. In: Ocean Engineering, ed. I. F.
Brahtz, pp. 157-201. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Science and technology: The driving force. In: Revolution, ed. M.
D. Generates and {. D. Kitchen, pp. 218-35. (Proceedings of
the Twenty-Sixth Annual Institute on World Affairs, San Diego,
California, August.) San Diego, Calif.: San Diego State College
Press.
Probing the birthplace of American weather. Naval Res. Rev.,
2 1(1 1-12): 1-13.
The sea and man. Explor. J., 46~41:260-65.
With M. W. Evans and R. A. Schwartzlose. Data from deep-moored
instrument stations. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, SIO
Reference no. 68-17.
1969
With A. Soutar. History of fish populations inferred from fish
scales in anaerobic sediments off California. Calif. Coop.
Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rep., 13:63-70.
With R. F. Devereux and F. D. Jennings. Long-distance telemetry
of environmental data for the North Pacific study. In: Proceed-
ings Oceanology International 69, First International Oceanology
OCR for page 117
JOHN DOVE ISAACS III
117
Conference, Brighton, England, February. London: BPS Exhi-
bitions Ltd.
The North Pacific study. (Revision of 1968 AIAA paper.) J. Hy-
dronaut., 3~2~:65-72.
With M. W. Evans and R. A. Schwartzlose. Atmospheric effects on
the ocean as measured from deep-moored instrument stations.
In: Proceedings of the Marine Temperature Measurements Symposium,
Miami Beach, June, pp. 71-93. Marine Technology Society.
With A. Fleminger and J. K. Miller. Distributional atlas of zoo-
plankton biomass in the California current region: Spring and
fall 1955 - 1959. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Atlas, 10:
i-xxv; 1-252.
Role of the NDBS in future variability studies of the North Pacific.
In: Proceedings of the First National Data Buoy Systems Scientific
Advisory Meeting, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, New London,
Connecticut. May, pp. 62-78.
With R. A. Schwartzlose. Transient circulation event near the deep
ocean floor. Science, 165~3896~:889-91.
The nature of oceanic life. Sci. Am., 221~3~: 146-62. (Also in: Read-
ings from Scientific American: "Oceanography," 1971, pp. 214—
27; see also pare. 4, p.208, for review; "Ecology, Evolution, and
Population Biology," 1973, pp. 239-52; see also pare. 2, p. 191,
for review; "Life in the Sea," 1981, pp. 4-17; see also pare. 6 et
seq., p. 2, for review. Available as Sci. Am. Of~print no. 844.)
With W. R. Schmitt. Stimulation of marine productivity with waste
heat and mechanical power. I. Cons. Int. Explor. Mer,33~11:20-
29.
1970
With R. F. Devereux, M. W. Evans, R. F. Kosic, and R. A. Schwartz-
lose. Telemetering of oceanographic data for the North Pacific
study. Telemetry J., 5~2~:19-23, 36.
With R. A. Schwartzlose. The operational results from the North
Pacific study. In: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Meeting, Marine
Technology Society, Washington, D.C., Tune 29 - July 1, vol. 1, pp.
551-60.
Editor. Symposium on population and fisheries. Calif. Coop.
Oceanic Fish. Invest. Conf., Avalon, Catalina Island, California,
OCR for page 118
118
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
December 1968. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rep.,14:21-
70.
With R. M. Born, D. M. Brown, R. A. Schwartzlose, and M. H.
Sessions. Deep-moored instrument station design and perfor-
mance, 1967 - 1970. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, SIO
Reference no. 70-19.
1971
With M. R. Clarke. Other resources of the deep sea. In: Deep
Oceans, ed. P. J. Herring and M. R. Clarke, pp.270-76. London:
Arthur Barker, Ltd.
With W. R. Schmitt. Enhancement of marine protein production.
In: Fertility of the Sea, ed. I. D. Costlow, vol. 2, pp. 455-62. Lon-
don: Gordon & Breach.
With D. M. Brown and M. H. Sessions. Continuous temperature-
depth profiling deep-moored buoy system. Deep-Sea Res.,
18:845-49.
Engineering problems in monitoring the ocean. (Abstract.) In: The
Ocean World, ed. M. Uda, pp. 123-24. (Proceedings of the Joint
Oceanographic Assembly, Tokyo, September 1970.) Tokyo: ~a-
pan Society for the Promotion of Science.
With A. Fleminger and J. K. Miller. Distributional atlas of zoo-
plankton biomass in the California Current region: Winter
1955-1959. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Atlas, 14:)-xxiv;
1-122.
1972
With R. R. Hessler and E. L. Mills. Giant amphipod from the abys-
sal Pacific Ocean. Science, 175~4022) :636 -37.
Unstructured marine food webs and "pollutant analogues." Fish.
Bull., 70~3~:1053-59.
With H. Bradner. Overpressures due to earthquakes project. Final
technical report to Advanced Research Project Agency (ARPA),
December 15, 1968-December 31, 1972. Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, SIO Reference no.72-18, AOEL Report no.72.
1973
The ocean margins. (Seminar, University of Washington, Seattle,
February 21, 1968.) In: Ocean Resources and Public Policy, ed.
OCR for page 119
JOHN DOVE ISAACS III
119
T. S. English, pp. 76-93. Seattle: University of Washington
Press.
With R. I. Seymour. The ocean as a power resource. Int. I. Environ.
Stud., 4:201-5.
With G. L. Wick. Optimized tactics for open-water marine preda-
tors. I. Mar. Biol. Assoc. India, Spec. Publ., May:193-99.
Potential trophic biomasses and trace-substance concentrations in
unstructured marine food webs. Mar. Biol., 22:97-104.
With D. R. Young, I. N. Johnson, and A. Soutar. Mercury concen-
trations in dated varved marine sediments collected off South-
ern California. Nature, 244~5415) :273 -75.
1974
With G. L. Wick. Tungus event revisited. Nature, 247~5437~: 139.
With A. Soutar. Abundance of pelagic fish during the 19th and
20th centuries as recorded in anaerobic sediment off the Cali-
fornias. Fish. Bull., 72~2~:257-74.
With R. T. Seymour. Tethered float breakwaters. In: Proceedings
of the Floating Breakwaters Conference, Newport, Rhode Island,
April, ed. T. Kowalski, pp. 55-72. University of Rhode Island
Marine Technical Report Series no. 24. (Also, in: University of
California Institute of Marine Resources, IMR Reference no.
74-9, Sea Grant Publ. no. 30.)
With S. A. Tont and G. L. Wick. Deep scattering layers: Vertical
migration as a tactic for finding food. Deep-Sea Res., 21:651-
56.
With A. Fleminger and i. G. Wyllie. Zooplankton biomass mea-
surements from CalCOFI cruises of July 1955 to 1959 and re-
marks on comparison with results from October, January and
April cruises of 1955 to 1959. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest.
Atlas,21:i-xx;1-118.
1975
With H. Bradner. A tentative hazard chart for submarines in earth-
quake zones. Naval Res. Rev., 28~1~:21-25.
With I. W. Stork, D. B. Goldstein, and G. L. Wick. Effect of vorticity
pollution by motor vehicles on tornadoes. Nature, 253 (54891:
254-55.
With W. R. Schmitt and C. K. Stidd. Ice ages and northern forests.
OCR for page 120
120
B I O G RA P H I C A L M EM O I RS
In: Climate of the Arctic, ed. G. Weller and S. A. Bowling, pp.
117-19. (Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Alaska Science
Conference, August 1973.) College: Geophysical Institute, Uni-
versity of Alaska.
With R. A. Schwartzlose. Biological applications of underwater
photography. Oceanus, 18~3~:24-30.
With R. A. Schwartzlose. Active animals of the deep-sea floor. Sci.
Am., 233(4):84 - 91.
With S. L. Costa. Anisotropic sand transport in tidal inlets. In:
Proceedings, Symposium on Modeling Techniques, pp. 254-73. New
York: American Society of Civil Engineers.
With G. L. Wick. Salinity power. Report based on a study group
convened by the University of California Institute of Marine
Resources and Oregon State University, San Francisco, Septem-
ber 1974. IMR Reference no. 75-9.
. ~ .
Assessment of man's impact on marine biological resources. In:
Marine Pollution and Marine Waste Disposal, ed. E. Pearson and E.
Frangipane, pp. 329-40. (Proceedings of the Second Interna-
tional Study Congress on Marine Waste Disposal, Sanremo,
Italy? December 1973.) London: Pergamon Press.
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project findings. In:
Marine Pollution and Marine Waste Disposal, ed. E. Pearson and E.
Frangipane, pp. 463-71. (Proceedings of the Second Interna-
tional Study Congress on Marine Waste Disposal, Sanremo,
Italy, December 1973.) London: Pergamon Press.
1976
Sanity and other factors in aquatic resource development. (Plenary,
address.) In: Mankind's Future in the Pacific, ed. R. F. Scagel, pp.
72-85. (Plenary and special lectures of the Thirteenth Pacific
Science Congress, Vancouver, B.C., August 1975.) Vancouver:
University of British Columbia Press.
With J. W. Stork and G. L. Wick. Tornado forum. Isaacs, Stork &
Wick reply to Kessler, Morton, Smith, McIntyre, Manton, Lilly,
Darkow & Court. Nature, 260~55501:457-61.
Reproductive products in marine food webs. Bull. South. Calif.
Acad. Sci. (Carl L. Hubbs Honorary Issue), 75~21:220-23.
With D. Castel and G. L. Wick. Utilization of the energy in ocean
waves. Ocean Eng., 3:175-87.
OCR for page 121
JOHN DOVE ISAACS III
121
The sea, the marine mystique, and the challenge to the scientific
paradigm. In: Literature and the Sea, ed. R. Astro, pp. 25-30.
(Proceedings of a conference at the Marine Science Center,
Newport, Oregon, May.) Oregon State University Sea Grant
College Program, Publ. no. ORESU-W-76-001.
Some ideas and frustrations about fishery science. (Presented at a
symposium of the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries In-
vestigations Conference on Fishery Science, "Fact, Fiction, and
Dogma," San Clemente, California, November 1973.) Calif.
Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rep., 18 :34 - 43.
With G. Wick. Salinity power. In: Symposia of Expo '75, pp. 153-65;
in Japanese, pp. 320-33. (Official Report: Symposium Section,
Japan Association for the International Ocean Exposition, Oki-
nawa, 1975.)
1977
With P. F. Tooby and G. L. Wick. The motion of a small sphere in
a rotating velocity field: A possible mechanism for suspending
particles in turbulence. J. Geophys. Res., 82~15~:2096-100.
The life of the open sea. Nature (ocean sciences supplement),
267~56141:778-80.
With S. L. Costa. The modification of sand transport in tidal inlets.
In: Coastal Sediments '77, pp. 946-65. (Proceedings of the Fifth
Symposium of Waterway, Port, Coastal and Ocean Divisions,
American Society of Civil Engineers, Charleston, South Caro-
lina, November 2-4.)
Threshold of the future, pp. 58-59; The new resource, pp. 96-
97; and Power from the sea, pp. 98-99. In: The Mitchell Beazley
Atlas of the Oceans, ed. M. Bramwell. London: Mitchell Beazley
Ltd. (Reprinted in 1979 as The Rand McNally Atlas of the Oceans.
Skokie, Ill.: Rand McNally & Co. 208 pp.)
1978
With G. L. Wick. Salt domes: Is there more energy available from
their salt than from their oil? Science, 199~4336~: 1436-37.
With V. M. V. Vidal, F. V. Vidal, and D. R. Young. Coastal sub-
marine hydrothermal activity off northern Baja California. I.
Geophys. Res., 83(B4~:1757-74.
Power from the sea forms and prospects. In: Proceedings of the
OCR for page 122
122
BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS
Spring MeetinglS TAR Symposium, Society of Naval Architects and
Marine Engineers, New London, Connecticut, April, pp. 5-1-
5-14.
With S. Loeb and M. R. Bloch. Salinity power, potential and pro-
cesses, especially membrane processes. In: Advances in Ocean-
ography (papers presented in general symposia at the Joint
Oceanographic Assembly, September 13 -24, 1976, Edinburgh,
Scotland), ed. H. Charnock and G. Deacon, pp. 267-88. New
York: Plenum Press.
With G. L. Wick. Utilization of the energy from salinity gradients.
In: Proceedings of the ERDA Wave and Salinity-Gradient Energy
Conversion Workshop, University of Delaware, May 1976, ed. R.
Cohen and M. E. McCormick. ERDA Report no. C00-2946-1,
Conf. 760564. (Also in: University of California IMR Reference
no. 78-2 "revision of 76-91.)
With G. L. Wick and W. R. Schmitt. Utilization of the energy from
ocean waves. In: Proceedings of the ERDA Wave and Salinity-
Gradient Energy Conversion Workshop, University of Delaware,
May 1976, ed. R. Cohen and M. E. McCormick. ERDA Report
no. C00-2946-1, Conf. 760564. (Also in: IMR Reference no. 78-
3 Erevision of 76-10~.)
1979
With M. Olsson and G. L. Wick. Salinity gradient power: Utilizing
vapor pressure differences. Science, 206~44171:452-54.
1980
With W. R. Schmitt. Ocean energy: Forms and prospects. Science,
207(4428~:265-73.
Challenges of a wet planet. Paper presented at Technology and
Ocean Space Conference, Oregon State University Sea Grant
Program, April 29, 1978. (Edited version published in Chem-
tech, 1 0~31: 14 1-43.)
1981
With V. M. V. Vidal and F. V. Vidal. Coastal submarine hydrother-
mal activity off northern Baja California. 2. Evolutionary his-
tory and isotope geochemistry. J. Geophys. Res.,86(B 10~:9451-
68.
OCR for page 123
Representative terms from entire chapter:
dove isaacs
