B.Vaughn Marshall Hist. 1957-1958

B. VAUGHN MARSHALL

1957 - 1958

Our second child and playing

Our second baby was a girl born in 1957. Of course she was the prettiest baby girl in the world. Our son had turned three years old the November before. I have fun memories of watching Vaughn play with him. Before he was a year old I remember how Vaughn loved to toss him in the air and catch him. It used to scare me but somehow he never dropped him and our son would laugh and laugh. He loved to have his dad play this game with him all the time. By the time he was three they were into the” wrestling and rolling around the floor game”. By the time our lbaby girl was a year old, and all three of them were into the “ wrestling and rolling game”. They would all be laughing so hard. Vaughn enjoyed this kind of activity with each of the children especially when they were young.

U.S. Geological Survey

In March of 1957 Vaughn left on his first field trip for the U.S. Geological Survey. He was gone for two and a half months doing magnetic surveys (ground) in the Minneapolis and Duluth areas. On July 15th he left again for just a couple of days to do some gravity surveys in Lee Vining, California. Then in August he was gone for a couple of weeks doing gravity surveys again in Nevada and Idaho. In September he spent a couple of days in Sequoia Park doing field work. He used one of the available government vehicles for the last three trips mentioned. Sometimes I would stop off at the survey and visit with him at work. I remember his showing me some of the vehicles he had to use on his field trips. I developed a warm respect for his driving abilities after seeing them. I was able to go with him on one of these trips and saw first hand how talented he was handling these monsters. They were more like tanks than trucks. They must have had 15 gears forward. Of course they were built for very rugged terrain and they looked like that’s where they’d been – a lot! They were also built to accommodate heavy drilling and coring equipment. But they were not built for comfort, either for sitting in or for driving. I found Vaughn to be a very knowledgeable driver --- something I hadn’t known. It turned out to be a very busy year for field work.

Work

Now to continue with his work narrative. 1958 was another busy year for Vaughn doing field work. He left to work in the Point Barrow, Alaska area on March 25th and was away till August 1st. He stayed over in Fairbanks for a week getting familiar with government installations and did some field work in the Brooks Range then went on to Point Barrow. The government operated a camp (Ogotoruk Creek Camp) there where a number of studies were being done. The study that Vaughn worked on was Arctic Ice and Permafrost in Alaska, it’s depth and distribution, the effects of heated buildings, lakes etc. on the permafrost and so forth. This was his first trip up north. Much of the time went slowly but he was very interested in the work and the area. He was able to visit the Eskimo village of Inupiat, which was close to Barrow. It was interesting to watch the Eskimo celebrations and dances and he was able to get some good pictures of them. He took some very outstanding pictures during the years he did work up north. He was a very talented photographer. Most of his pictures still exist in the form of slides. I hope to include some in his history. (I hope to upload them this year 2012) Vaughn left again the first week of August for work in southern Washoe Co., Nevada and then on up to northern Eureka Co., Nevada till August 22nd.

Places and Times

One of the interesting things I found among Vaughn’s papers was a copy of a Personal Security Questionnaire that he filled out soon after he started working for the U.S. Geological Survey. It was kind of interesting because it put in a nutshell all his work experience and some of the places where he had lived up to that time. I thought that this would be a good place in his history to share that information.

Date Name of Employer Type of Work Address Reason for Leaving

1945-47 Marshall Tree Service cut &split wood 733 San Carlos Ct Just part time

1949-50 Palo Alto, work with father

Aug 55-Nov 55 trimming trees California when in school

Sep 47-Sep 48 Co-Op Grocery beginning clerk California Ave part time work

Sep 1954 Palo Alto joined navy

1948-49 U.S. Navy Airman Apprentice San Diego, C.A Enlistment completed

1951-53 Church of Jesus Christ of missionary Salt Lake City, Utah 2 year mission

Latter Day Saints This actually was not

Employment since I Received no money

Feb 1953

–Sep 1953 Southern Pacific Co . Jr. Blue printer 65 Market Street returned to school San Francisco, Calif.

Sep 53 to Various part time jobs while going to school

Summer 56 SUCH AS;

Bi-Wise Grocery Beginning clerk Middlefield Rd. Palo Alto return to school

Willow Rd. Market Beginning clerk Willow Rd., Menlo Park same

Marshall Tree Service Palo Alto business dissolved

Feb 56 to U.S. Geological Survey Physical & Science 4 Homewood Place Dept. of Interior Aid & Geophysicist Menlo Park, Calif.

The above was submitted in July of 1959.

I have decided that this is probably a good place to include the following information, which comes from his Personnel records at the U.S. Geological Survey and kind of continues from where the other record left off.

1956-1963 U.S. Geological Survey Physical Science Aid;

Geophysicist; Branch of Theoretical Geophysics.

a) Member of Arctic Ice and Permafrost Project; Involved in the collection of thermal data and determination of pertinent physical properties of soils and rock to calculate heat flow and permafrost depth and distribution at the Barrow and Ogoturuk Creek (Cape Thompson) areas of Alaska; Additional specific questions investigated included effects on permafrost of heated buildings, lakes, lagoons, and ocean shoreline movements.

b) Other fieldwork measuring gravity and magnetic fields in Nevada, Washington, and Minnesota on short-term assignments.

c) (FYI, there was nothing entered here)

1963-1976 U S Geological Survey Geophysicist

Geothermal Studies Project Heat Flow & Thermal Studies

a) Oceanic heat-flow investigations from Ice Island T-3 in the Artic Ocean. Three-hundred fifty-six heat flow values were obtained. The first nineteen values collected the first year, were published in 1966. These were located in an area covering the Canada Basin – Alpha Rise boundary and provided constraints for different models of this boundary. The remaining data have not yet been published.

b) Oceanic heat-flow measurements from Ice Island Arlis II in the Denmark Strait. Eleven holes showed the heat-flow distribution along ~280 km traverse. Detailed temperature measurements in the water column, especially near the bottom, provided additional data to suggest the occurrence of a “bolus” of cold water during the time of traverse.

c) GLOMAR CHALLENGER Cruise, Leg 25. Three heat-flow values between Africa and Madagascar added to Growing bank of data for Indian Ocean heat flow. Thermal conductivities measured on the core were from some of the deepest sub-bottom depths then tested.

d) Offshore drilling project in Beaufort Sea at Prudhoe Bay. Thermal regime studies to find permafrost boundaries and possible inferences on present shoreline movements.

1976-1978 U.S. Geological Survey Geophysicist,

Pacific Artic Branch of Marine Geology.

Member of Advanced Geopotential Modeling Group.

Bering Sea oceanographic studies including heat-flow

measurements in the Aleutian Basin.

1978-1983 U.S. Geological Survey Geophysicist,

Geothermal Studies Project. Continental heat-flow studies,

primarily of the western United States and Alaska.

Assignment concentrates on computer applications for

data reduction, modeling and interpretation.

1984-1987 U.S. Geological Survey Geophysicist,

Geothermal Studies Project. Continued same as above

June 1987 Retired

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