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Hannes Leetaru papers

 Collection
Identifier: IHRC3708

Abstract

Scholarly work, scientific articles by Hannes Leetaru.

Dates

  • Creation: 1990-2000

Language of Materials

English

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS

Open for use in the Elmer L. Andersen Library reading room.

OWNERSHIP & LITERARY RIGHTS

This collection may be protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S. Code). It is the user's responsibility to verify copyright ownership and to obtain all necessary permissions prior to the reproduction, publication, or other use of any portion of these materials. Researchers may quote from the collection under the fair use provision of the copyright law.

HISTORICAL SKETCH

Geologist, Ph.D.Leetaru has worked in Illinois Geological Survey Bedrock Geology Industrial Minerals and Resource Economics Energy and Earth Resources Center. Leetaru has a BS degree in geology from the State University of New York at Fredonia, an MS degree from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He has worked as a petroleum geologist with Getty Oil Company and Union Pacific Resources in Houston, Texas. He has been involved in exploration and development projects in the East Texas and West Texas basins, and the Hugoton Embayment of Kansas. Has been a petroleum geologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey for the last 15 years. During his tenure at the ISGS, he has published more than 40 articles, workshop notes, and state survey publications and has also been an author or co-author on more than 50 abstracts and contract reports.Father: Edmund Leetaru (20.03.1910 Tallinn, Estonia – 13.07.1995 New York, USA)Mother: Ilse Leetaru (nee Kõpper)Published:Digenesis and reservoir quality of the Upper Mississippian Aux Vases Sandstone, Illinois Basin / Janet K. Pitman, Mitchell Henry, Hannes Leetaru. Denver (Colo.) : U.S. Geological Survey, 2000.

Extent

3 linear inches

ORGANIZATION OF MATERIALS

Archive consists of 3 folders.

PROVENANCE

Collection transferred to the IHRC from the Estonian Archives in the U.S.A. (EAU) in 2003-2005. It was processed as part of a collaborative project between the Estonian Archives in the USA (Lakewood, New Jersey), the National Archives of Estonia (NAE), and the IHRC in March 2012. Gristel Ramler and Tiina Trumberg of the National Archives in Tallinn, Estonia, worked with IHRC staff on the project.

RELATED COLLECTIONS

IHRC 3720 Leetaru, EdmundIHRC 3730 Leetaru, Ilse

Title
Inventory of the Hannes Leetaru papers.
Author
IHRC Archives
Date
2016
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
Finding Aid in English

Collecting Area Details

Contact The Immigration History Research Center Archives Collecting Area

Contact:

612-625-4800