The Eugene LaFond and Katherine LaFond Oral History, dated 1958-1959 and 1992-2001, contains audiocassettes, administrative information, and transcripts of the interview between Eugene LaFond, Katherine La Fond, and Brian Shoemaker of the American Polar Society, which took place on February 27, 2000. Some of the newspaper clippings and correspondence found in the administrative information date from 1958-1959. The oral history focused on Eugene LaFond's experiences as an oceanographer in the Arctic regions and the Indian Ocean and on Katherine LaFond's assistance with her husband's oceanographic research of the Indian Ocean. Major topics of the oral history interviews include accounts of Eugene's LaFond's oceanographic research during four Arctic Expeditions in the 1950s, the Bikini Atoll atomic tests, sailing to the North Pole and beyond in the atomic submarine United States Ship (USS) Skate, and personal reflections from Katherine LaFond.