Title

Elliot Finkle, Senator Lowell Weicker, and Dick Touma standing in front of the "Aegir" underwater habitat

Creator

John C. Ogden, West Indies Laboratory-Fairleigh Dickinson University [at the time of the creation of these documents and slides]; University of South Florida [current affiliated institution]

Files

Preview

Creation Date

8-26-1985

Keywords

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

Type

Image

Date

August 1985

Abstract

Photograph of (from left to right): Richard Touma, Associate Dean of Science and Engineering at Fairleigh Dickinson Univeristy, 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.

Description

2 x 2 inches cardboard projector slide with 33mm photographic film in the center of the slide to produce an image. Seattle Film Works brand name is printed on the slide.

Subject: geographic

Virgin Islands of the United States -- Saint Croix

Genre

Slides (Photography)

Format

jpeg

Holding Location

University of South Florida

Physical Collection

Dr. John Ogden Caribbean and Coral Reef collection