Elliot Finkle, Senator Lowell Weicker, and Dick Touma Standing in Front of the Aegir Underwater Habitat

Creator

John C. OgdenFollow

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Creation Date

8-26-1985

Abstract

From left to right: Richard Touma, Associate Dean of Science and Engineering at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Lowell Weicker, U.S. Senator from Connecticut, and Elliot Finkle, Head of the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) National Undersea Research Program (NURP). Senator Lowell was an advocate in the U.S. Congress for the funding of NOAA. The three men are pictured standing in front of the Aegir, a habitat structure and laboratory designed to be located on the seafloor which allowed scientists to live and work underwater for extended periods of time. Elliot Finkle holds a microphone with "ABC" written on it.

Keywords

Marine biology--Research, Marine biologists, Legislators--United States, United States Virgin Islands, Environmental laboratories, Scuba diving, Saturation diving

Extent

2x2 inches cardboard projector slide with Kodachrome 35mm color photographic film

Subject: geographic

United States Virgin Islands; St. Croix (United States Virgin Islands); Salt River Bay (United States Virgin Islands)

Physical Collection

Dr. John Ogden Caribbean and Coral Reef collection

Media Type

Color slides

Identifier

O19-00193

Recommended Citation

Ogden, John C., "Elliot Finkle, Senator Lowell Weicker, and Dick Touma Standing in Front of the Aegir Underwater Habitat" (1985). Binder 07: Photographs and Images. Image 105.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/ogden7_images/105