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3 benthoscope models, Santa Maria, Calif., 1949
1media/ahfimg39119001_thumb.jpg2020-04-23T16:14:22-07:00Sue Luftscheinc3da4f338cfb5c3d980919bd84c8fb083c380bd6372511Unidentified man stands beside workshop table on which sit three different sized models of the benthoscope. The full-size model is made of wood, workshop, College of Aeronautics, University of Southern California, Santa Maria, California, USA, 1949. Allan Hancock Foundation Collection, http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15799coll82/id/26383/rec/3plain2020-04-23T16:14:22-07:00Sue Luftscheinc3da4f338cfb5c3d980919bd84c8fb083c380bd6
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12020-04-23T11:28:58-07:00Foundation Scientists27plain2020-04-30T12:48:18-07:00The research trips sponsored by the Hancock Foundation were manned by a number of scientists on the faculty of the University of Southern California, or affiliated with the Foundation. Among them were Professors John Garth, Maurice Nelles, Irene McCulloch, and Waldo Schmitt. Every trip included a photographer and/or cameraman. One of the more interesting members of many of the Foundation's trips was Professor John Garth. Garth began his affiliation with the Foundation's research trips while an undergraduate at USC, where he was a music major. He was selected to accompany the first trip in 1931 as a musician, but soon began working as a research assistant, and as a result ended up pursuing a doctorate in marine biology and a lifelong affiliation with USC.
One of the important innovations made by Foundation scientists was the benthograph. These devices (manned and unmanned) were used to film along the ocean floor, specifically off the California coast, and in and around Santa Catalina Island.
