Oral history interview with Kenneth L. Hunkins [electronic resource], 1998

Biographical Note

Geophysicist, oceanographer.

Scope and Contents

Childhood: born Lake Placid, New York, son of gasoline distributor; Yale University, physics, 1946-1950; three years United States Army, second lieutenant, infantry, 1950-1953; Stanford University, geophysics, 1954-1960; association with Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; participation in International Geophysical Year, IGY, program: research of seismics, magnetics, ice core samples, Fairbanks, Alaska, Arctic Circle, 1957-1958; doctoral thesis: seismics, Arctic Ocean floor, Stanford University, 1960; oceanographic research for United States Air Force, Navy, Arctic Research Station, Cambridge Research Lab, 1958-1970; development of satellite navigational receivers; research for Bureau of Land Management: effects of oil spills on earth and water, Hudson Canyon, Baltimore Canyon; chief scientist, physical oceanography, Fram project, Greenland; oceanographic work, nuclear research submarine, NR1, Puerto Rico; reminiscences of colleagues.

Subjects

• Columbia University
• Doel, Ronald, interviewer.
• Hunkins, Kenneth L. (Kenneth Leland), 1928---Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
• Oceanography--Research
• Oral histories.
• Sfraga, Michael, interviewer.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1998