Discover! Oceanography
Title | Discover! Oceanography PDF eBook |
Author | Avaly McGinley |
Publisher | Lorenz Educational Press |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1999-09-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0787704342 |
Activities to reinforce basic concepts in the study of oceanography.
Discovering the Ocean from Space
Title | Discovering the Ocean from Space PDF eBook |
Author | Ian S. Robinson |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 678 |
Release | 2010-08-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3540683224 |
This book offers a survey of the contribution of satellite data to the study of the ocean, focusing on the special insights that only satellite data can bring to oceanography. Topics range from ocean waves to ocean biology, spanning scales from basins to estuaries. Some chapters cover applications to pure research while others show how satellite data can be used operationally for tasks such as pollution monitoring or oil-spill detection.
Ocean and Sea
Title | Ocean and Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Steve Parker |
Publisher | Scholastic Inc. |
Pages | 6 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 054533022X |
An introduction to Earth's oceans, covering water, geology, tides, waves, coastlines, and ocean life, and presenting numerous photographs.
Discover! Oceanography (ENHANCED eBook)
Title | Discover! Oceanography (ENHANCED eBook) PDF eBook |
Author | Avaly McGinley |
Publisher | Lorenz Educational Press |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1999-09-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1429109270 |
The activities in this book explain elementary concepts in the study of oceanography, including mapping the oceans, characteristics of water, the ocean floor, waves and currents, tides, life in the ocean, and underwater exploration. General background information, suggested activities, questions for discussion, and answers are included. Encourage students to keep completed pages in a folder or notebook for further reference and review.
Fathoming the Ocean
Title | Fathoming the Ocean PDF eBook |
Author | Helen M. Rozwadowski |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 2008-03-31 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0674042948 |
By the middle of the nineteenth century, as scientists explored the frontiers of polar regions and the atmosphere, the ocean remained silent and inaccessible. The history of how this changed—of how the depths became a scientific passion and a cultural obsession, an engineering challenge and a political attraction—is the story that unfolds in Fathoming the Ocean. In a history at once scientific and cultural, Helen Rozwadowski shows us how the Western imagination awoke to the ocean's possibilities—in maritime novels, in the popular hobby of marine biology, in the youthful sport of yachting, and in the laying of a trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. The ocean emerged as important new territory, and scientific interests intersected with those of merchant-industrialists and politicians. Rozwadowski documents the popular crazes that coincided with these interests—from children's sailor suits to the home aquarium and the surge in ocean travel. She describes how, beginning in the 1860s, oceanography moved from yachts onto the decks of oceangoing vessels, and landlubber naturalists found themselves navigating the routines of a working ship's physical and social structures. Fathoming the Ocean offers a rare and engaging look into our fascination with the deep sea and into the origins of oceanography—origins still visible in a science that focuses the efforts of physicists, chemists, geologists, biologists, and engineers on the common enterprise of understanding a vast, three-dimensional, alien space.
Discover! Oceanography: to 10; Pages:11 to 20; Pages:21 to 30; Pages:31 to 35
Title | Discover! Oceanography: to 10; Pages:11 to 20; Pages:21 to 30; Pages:31 to 35 PDF eBook |
Author | Avaly McGinley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 35 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781773445366 |
50 Years of Ocean Discovery
Title | 50 Years of Ocean Discovery PDF eBook |
Author | National Research Council |
Publisher | National Academies Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2000-01-03 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0309172578 |
This book describes the development of ocean sciences over the past 50 years, highlighting the contributions of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to the field's progress. Many of the individuals who participated in the exciting discoveries in biological oceanography, chemical oceanography, physical oceanography, and marine geology and geophysics describe in the book how the discoveries were made possible by combinations of insightful individuals, new technology, and in some cases, serendipity. In addition to describing the advance of ocean science, the book examines the institutional structures and technology that made the advances possible and presents visions of the field's future. This book is the first-ever documentation of the history of NSF's Division of Ocean Sciences, how the structure of the division evolved to its present form, and the individuals who have been responsible for ocean sciences at NSF as "rotators" and career staff over the past 50 years.