Dr. Curt Storlazzi, Ph.D., is a prominent coastal scientist with a strong focus on coastal and marine research. He holds a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) and a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Delaware. Dr. Storlazzi has over two decades of experience and currently serves as a Research Geologist and Oceanographer in the USGS Coastal and Marine Hazards and Resources Program. Simultaneously, he is a Research Associate at UCSC's Institute for Marine Sciences.

Oral History Interview with Horace Byers, 1987.  Interviewed by Earl Droessler. 

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Cecil E. "Chuck" Leith was a renowned physicist, mathematician, and climate modeler, born in 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts. He spent his early life in Massachusetts, attending high school in Scituate, a town south of Boston. Leith's career took a significant turn during World War II when he was drafted into the Army at the age of twenty-one. Despite his young age, he was involved in a highly classified project, the details of which he was not allowed to disclose.

Michael Albano was born in Long Beach, California, on November 24, 1947, in Saint Mary’s Hospital. Mike’s grandfather and father were fishermen.  His father immigrated to the United States from Ischia, Italy, between the years 1939 and 1941. His father decided to come to America because of fishing opportunities near Catalina Island.

Oral history interview with Torrance Parker. 

Carroll Dee Brown was born in Henryetta, Oklahoma in 1927. In 1944, he moved to the port area of Los Angeles to work as a welder. He met his wife at a dance in Redondo and they were married for fifty-four years. After his initial three months at the port, Brown did not return to work there but continued working in construction and shipyards. 

Oral history interview with Lanny Nelms.

Oral history interview with George Griffith.

Oral history interview with James Hahn. 

Jerry Aspland was born in 1940 in Richmond, California. He first got involved with the Port of Los Angeles in the 1960s. As a young captain, he faced challenges due to his age, such as being passed over for a port pilot position because he was considered too young. As the president of ARCO Marine, he was involved in the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez incident and played a role in the advancement of tanker safety regulations, which had a significant impact on the Port of Los Angeles.