Portrait of Dr. Ursula Marvin in Antarctic Gear

Summary

Dr. Ursula Marvin, geologist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is part of the 1978-1979 United States Antarctic Research Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation, and will search for meteorites from the base at McMurdo Station, the American Antarctic research center located on the southern tip of Ross Island on the shore of McMurdo Sound. The nine week expedition from December 1978 to January 1979 will include Japanese and American scientists. Until 1970, only 2,000 different meteorites had ever been identified, but that year a Japanese expedition located a large concentration of meteorites on the White Continent. Since then more than a thousand new specimens have been added to world collections.

Subject

• Marvin, Ursula B
• Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs

Notes

Featured in the "Torch," December 1978.

Cite as

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 02, Folder: December 1978, Image No. 96-1022

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

• 1978
• December 1978

Restrictions & Rights

• No access restrictions Many of SIA's holdings are located off-site, and advance notice is recommended to consult a collection. Please email the SIA Reference Team at osiaref@si.edu
• No Known Copyright

Topic

• Women
• Discovery and exploration
• Geology
• Portraits
• Meteorology

Place

• Antarctica
• Polar regions

Form/Genre

Black-and-white photographs

Local number

SIA RU000371 [96-1022]

Physical description

Gelatin silver prints; 5 x 4;

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