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Roger Randall Dougan Revelle
Roger Randall Dougan Revelle
Pages 288-309
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in the stucly of global warming, en c! brought a fresh approach to issues of population, woric!
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Vaughan, director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) , who were seeking a graduate student to stucly sediment cores taken on a cruise of the vessel Carnegie.
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Collaboration with marine chemists stimulates! his interest in the buffering capacity of sea water through its contents of carbonic en c!
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He remainec! in Washington when the war ended and was assigned to Joint Task Force One, the military command supervising the first postwar atomic test on Bikini Atoll (Operation Crossroacis)
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the argument of Darwin that atolls are sunken volcanic isTancis on which enormous layers of skeletons of reef-builcling organisms accrete cluring the sinking process. While still with Operation Crossroads, Revelle was transferrec!
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the survey constituting the heart of the Marine Life Research Program (MLR)
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the circumPacific geophysical studies, which playact a crucial role in the clevelopment of plate tectonics. Among the discoveries were the extreme thinness of cleepsea sediments, the similarity of heat flow on the ocean floor en c!
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Suess have gone well beyond a "global geophysical experiment." The developing nations of the worIc! are clemancling special treatment in the adoption of mitigating measures by the countries of the clevelopec!
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National Committee for the International Biological Program in 1961. Revelle playact a key role in the creation in 1970 of the Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
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As the first president of SCOR, he participated in planning the International Indian Ocean Expedition. As president of the first International Oceanographic Congress at the Uniter!
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He then accepted an appointment as Richard Saltonstall Professor of Population Policy at Harvard University, served as Director of the Center for Population Studies from 1964 to 1974, and continued in the chair until 1978. · , , ~ ~ WASHINGTON, D.C., AGAIN Before taking up his duties at Harvard, Revelle, as the first science advisor to the Secretary of the Interior, had become directly involved in a broad set of resource problems.
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Director of the Center for Population Studies, Revelle brought together a team of colleagues cleclicatec! to unclerstancling the problems of population change en c!
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No cloomsciay prophet, he wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 1966 that "in the foreseeable future, there shouIc! be no serious clifficulty in maintaining the quantity and improving the quality of food supplies per person in the cleveloping countries ...." with the provision that inordinate population growth be reclucecI, eclucational opportunities be enhanced, inclustrialization proceed, social patterns change, agricultural acreage en c!
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them to his critical yet sympathetic questioning. SIO director Edward!
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the biological effects of racliation in the marine environment, en c! studies for population growth and global food supplies." To a reporter asking why he receiver!
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be to cliscreclit his most formiciable strengths. Here we refer to Revelle's own words of critical self-appraisal (three transcripts of "Oral History with Roger Revelle," Roger Revelle papers MC6 and MC6A, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego)
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One can be sure that his judgment was very much his own en c! that prejudice, self-interest, or seeking popular approval played no part.
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Those words from this uniquely Homeric figure of the twentieth century were an inspiring legacy for future generations. WE ARE INDEBTED TO Deborah Day for providing us with extensive material from the archives of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and for reviewing this memoir.
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1944 Marine bottom samples collected in the Pacific Ocean by the Carnegie on its seventh cruise. Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication no.
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1967 International Biological Program. Science 155:957.
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New York: Wiley and Sons. 1982 Carbon dioxide and world climate.
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