This Dynamic Planet - World Map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plate Tectonics (Map)
Creator::
National Museum of Natural History. Department of Mineral Sciences Search this
Extent:
29 cu. ft. (29 record storage boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Brochures
Clippings
Manuscripts
Newsletters
Picture postcards
Maps
Ephemera
Black-and-white photographs
Black-and-white transparencies
Color photographs
Black-and-white negatives
Place:
Galapagos Islands
Date:
1956-2004
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of the professional correspondence of Tom Simkin, Curator of Petrology and Volcanology, 1972-2003, and Senior Geologist and Volcanologist, 2003-2009.
Simkin also served as Geologist, Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center, 1967-1972. Major topics covered in this accession include the creation and revision of This Dynamic
Planet - World Map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, and Plate Tectonics; manuscripts, articles, and other publications; research projects, especially in the Galapagos Islands
and on the Island of Skye; and revisions to exhibitions, including the Physical Geology Hall, the Hall of Mineralogy and Meteorites, the Glacial Geology Hall, Volcano Watch:
Maurice and Katia Krafft and the Smithsonian, Our Changing Land, and those reviewed by the Exhibits Committee.
A large portion of the records also document the Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galapagos Isles, an international not-for-profit organization that provides scientific
research and technical information and assistance to ensure the proper preservation of the Galapagos Islands. The Smithsonian Institution is an institutional member and Simkin
served as Secretary of the Americas. In addition to his own correspondence, Simkin was often copied on the correspondence of other officers as well Smithsonian Institution
staff, including Secretary Sidney Dillon Ripley, one of three founding council members, and Marsha E. Sitnik, Program Manager, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Science,
who also served as Executive Secretary of the Foundation.
Some records were created while Simkin was assigned to the Division of Petrology and Volcanology within the Department of Mineral Sciences. Other records were created prior
to Simkin's career at the Smithsonian Institution.
Materials include correspondence, memoranda, notes, reports, meeting materials, exhibition scripts, clippings, manuscripts, brochures, maps, research images, object images,
bibliographies, postcards, newsletters, ephemera, and related materials.
