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The University of Chicago 
Chicago 37, Illinois 
THE DEPARTMENT OF THE GEOPHYSICAL SCIENCES 
The University of Chicago is expanding its activities in oceanography 
and hopes to offer more courses in marine science than at present. However, 
the principal emphasis will be on thorough preparation in basic disciplines 
with opportunities to apply them to marine research through affording students 
opportunity to participate in research at marine laboratories. 
At the present time research at the University is being conducted on 
storm surges, near-shore oceanic circulation, interaction of waves and bottom, 
geochemistry of marine sediments, interactions between marine organisms and 
their environment and the organization of marine communities. Facilities at 
the University include a wave tank, flume, wind tunnel, paleoecology labora- 
tory, sedimentology laboratory, geochemistry laboratories, hydrodynamics labor- 
atory, electron probe, x-ray diffraction equipment and several high speed com- 
putors (7090 IBM, 1620, MANIAC, UNIVAC). Field facilities are available at the 
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Pacific Marine Station. 
Instructional Staff 
SVERRE PETTERSSEN, Ph.D., Professor of Meteorology 
GEORGE W. PLATZMAN, Ph.D., Professor of Meteorology 
DAV FULTZ, Ph.D., Professor of Meteorology 
ROBERT L. MILLER, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Marine Geophysics 
and Geology 
RALPH G. JOHNSON, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Paleontology 
ROBERT A. BERNER, Ph.D., Assistant Professor 
JOEL W. HEDGPETH, Ph.D., University of the Pacific, Marine Station, 
Lecturer in Paleozoology 
JOHN ZEIGLER, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Lecturer 
in Marine Geology 
Degrees Offered: 
None in Oceanography. The M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Geophysical 
Seiences are offered with specialization in areas included in 
oceanography . 
Courses Offered: 
131, 132, INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOPHYSICAL SCIENCES STAFF 
133. 
Broad problems of the planet, the earth's magnetic and 
gravitational fields, physical and biological oceanography, 
sediments, physical processes and circulation in the 
atmosphere, climatology, erosion processes, volcanology, 
the earth's interior, and mountain-building. 
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