- Title Pages
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The Stephen Bechtel Fund
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- Foreword
- Introduction
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One Discovering the Ocean -
Two A Portrait of the Ocean Planet -
Three Life at the Edge of a Fertile Sea -
Four Of Coral Reefs and Atolls -
Five The Zen of the Beach -
Six Unraveling the Gulf Stream Puzzle -
Seven Sardines and the California Current -
Eight Meadows and Deserts of the Sea -
Nine Of Whales and Sharks and Giant Squid -
Ten The Deep, the Cold, the Dark -
Eleven Seeing in the Dark -
Twelve Mountains, Trenches, Sunken Islands -
Thirteen The Ocean’s Memory of the Ice Ages -
Fourteen Abyssal Memories -
Fifteen Global Warming and the Ocean - Epilogue
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Appendix One Units Used in the Ocean Sciences -
Appendix Two Aspects of Ocean Chemistry -
Appendix Three Overview of Major Groups of Important Marine Organisms -
Appendix Four Geologic Time Scale -
Appendix Five Topographic Statistics - Figure Sources and References
- Index
Discovering the Ocean
Discovering the Ocean
Of Fish and Ships and People
This chapter discusses the impact of human activities on the ocean and provides a brief history of the expansion of ocean research. It begins by discussing the major causes of fishery decline in the North Atlantic. This is followed by a discussion on the history of early oceanography and the contributions of the Challenger Expedition and other expeditions that led to the progress of oceanographic science. The chapter then describes the history of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a research center concerned with the study of nearshore and deep-sea organisms, as well as the geophysics of the seafloor and life-support systems of the planet.
Keywords: human activities, ocean research, fishery decline, oceanography, Challenger Expedition, Institution of Oceanography
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- Title Pages
-
The Stephen Bechtel Fund
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Foreword
- Introduction
-
One Discovering the Ocean -
Two A Portrait of the Ocean Planet -
Three Life at the Edge of a Fertile Sea -
Four Of Coral Reefs and Atolls -
Five The Zen of the Beach -
Six Unraveling the Gulf Stream Puzzle -
Seven Sardines and the California Current -
Eight Meadows and Deserts of the Sea -
Nine Of Whales and Sharks and Giant Squid -
Ten The Deep, the Cold, the Dark -
Eleven Seeing in the Dark -
Twelve Mountains, Trenches, Sunken Islands -
Thirteen The Ocean’s Memory of the Ice Ages -
Fourteen Abyssal Memories -
Fifteen Global Warming and the Ocean - Epilogue
-
Appendix One Units Used in the Ocean Sciences -
Appendix Two Aspects of Ocean Chemistry -
Appendix Three Overview of Major Groups of Important Marine Organisms -
Appendix Four Geologic Time Scale -
Appendix Five Topographic Statistics - Figure Sources and References
- Index
