Research Materials, 1943-2002

Series 2 documents the research Dr. Blanchard conducted while he was working at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the State University of New York at Albany. The work that he did while at General Electric is mentioned but not specifically covered. The main focus of Dr. Blanchards research was on the nature of bubbles and water drops but he also conduct studies on volcanic electricity and its effects. To conduct this research, he travelled throughout the Northeast and Hawaii. Along with the research he did in the United States, Dr. Blanchard also traveled internationally to collected data. A large part of his international research was done around Surtsey Volcano in Iceland.

The documents included in this series are photographs, projection slides, negatives, newspaper and magazine clippings, journal articles, correspondence, journals, notes (both handwritten and typed), graphs, figures, drawings, and data (both printouts and handwritten). Folders are arranged and titled to reflect Dr. Blanchards own arrangement scheme. To help maintain his arrangement, the series is sub-divided into titled sections. Since all the sections are related to one topic, they have not been divided into sub-series. Along with this, many of the folders have the same titles that Dr. Blanchard used in his own filing. The titles were only changed if they were redundant and did not provide the researcher with a clearer understanding of what the folder contained.