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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla 92093-0175
Title: Lanna Cheng Papers
Creator:
Cheng, Lanna
Identifier/Call Number: SMC 0095
Physical Description:
12 Linear feet
(30 archives boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1938-2005
Abstract: This collection consists of the professional papers of Lanna Cheng, marine biologist and faculty member at UC San Diego, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography.
Languages:
English
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Scope and Content of Collection
This collection consists of the professional papers of Lanna Cheng, marine biologist and faculty member at UC San Diego, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography. Materials include manuscript drafts by Cheng and others, correspondence, insect collection data,
expedition reports, and photographs. The collection was received in two accessions (2006 and 2007) and processed in 2024 by
Alex McGrath.
Arranged in four series: 1) WRITINGS, 2) WORK WITH SCIENTISTS IN CHINA, 3) RESEARCH FILES, 4) CORRESPONDENCE.
Lanna Cheng was a marine entomologist researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography beginning in the 1970s, where
she stayed for several decades. Her work focused on the open-ocean sea-skater Halobates, and she also published on marine
insects, algae, and climate change. She received her M.S. degree from the University of Singapore in 1966 and her PhD from
Oxford University in 1969. In the 1980s, Cheng worked extensively with scientists in the People's Republic of China (PRC),
both hosting international workshops at SIO and traveling to develop laboratories in China. Between 1988-1990, she served
as the Chief Technical Officer on the United Nations Development Project (UNDP) Brine Biotechnology Project with the Salt
Research Institute in Tanngu, China.
In 1969, she married Ralph Lewin, marine biologist at SIO. Cheng and Lewin collaborated frequently over their careers, publishing
together and traveling internationally to host seminars. Cheng often worked as a translator for Lewin, although Lewin was
fluent in Esperanto.
Cheng's brief professional CV and bibliography is available on on the Scripps Profiles website at: https://lcheng.scrippsprofiles.ucsd.edu/
Lanna Cheng Papers. SMC 95. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Acquired 2006-2007
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women entomologists -- California
Halobates -- Research
Marine insects -- Research
Cheng, Lanna -- Archives