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February 21, 2001
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PUBLIC LECTURE AT
SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY
HIGHLIGHTS HISTORY OF DEEP-SEA OCEAN RESEARCH
Scripps
Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
Deep-sea exploration and the history of 19th century ocean discoveries will be
the focus of a free public lecture by Dr. Helen M. Rozwadowski, a
world-renowned oceanography historian, at 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 8, in
Sumner Auditorium at UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography, 8602 La Jolla
Shores Drive, in La Jolla.
The public is invited.
Rozwadowski was awarded Scripps Institution's William E. and Mary B. Ritter
Memorial fellowship given biennially to a recognized scholar of marine
sciences history. Her public lecture is titled "No longer 'For ever
closed to human gaze': 19th century discovery of the deep sea."
An interest in Herman Melville and other maritime authors combined with her
interest in biology as an undergraduate sparked Rozwadowski's interest in
oceanography. As a graduate student in history of science, she studied the
origin of oceanography as a scientific discipline, especially 19th century
explorers of the ocean depths. Her academic publications have considered the
changing cultural meaning of the oceans over time and the interweaving of many
disciplines which created the modern science of oceanography.
Rozwadowski received her doctorate in the history of science from the
University of Pennsylvania in 1996. Her dissertation is entitled,
"Fathoming the Ocean: Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea,
1840-1880." She was appointed historian for the International
Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) in 1996 and has written a
history of this first intergovernmental marine science organization. She
is a member of the School of History, Technology and Society at Georgia
Institute of Technology.
The William E. and Mary B. Ritter Memorial Fellowship is an international
research award made biennially by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography to
encourage scholarship in the history of marine science. The fellowship
is named in honor of the institution's founding director and his wife and is
funded by a gift from Robert L. and Bettie P. Cody. This honor requires the
recipient to spend time at Scripps Institution to interact with scientists and
scholars.
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