Marine Biology and Ocean Science
Contributors: Cover painting by marine artist Richard Ellis;  additional paintings by Richard Ellis and Winslow Homer.
Edition: 1996
Publisher: Balaena Books Inc
Published: 1991-12; revised 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780962409417
Subjects: Marine Biology; Marine Science; Oceanography
Genres: Science; Non-fiction; Education
First sentence: "From years of tradition, we know our home as "Planet Earth," but from some points of view, we could just as easily call ourselves "The Water Planet" or "Planet Ocean."
Description: This is a hardcover marine biology and oceanography textbook, covering topics as diverse as whales, whaling, tall ships, and ocean exploration, to tides, waves, and currents, sea turtles, coral reefs, plankton, and marine invertebrates.
Notes: Illustrations include numerous paintings such as "Eight Bells," "The Fog Warning,"  and "Undertow" by Winslow Homer;  "Bryde's Whales," "Sei Whales," and "Basking Sharks" by Richard Ellis; "Christopher Columbus" by Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio, and "Ferdinand Magellan" and "Juan Sebastian del Cano" by Augusto Meneses.  (These also appear in the hardcover edition.)
Table of contents: title: An Unlikely Planet
label: 1; title: Properties of Water
label: 2; title: The Origins of Ocean Science
label: 3; title: Salinity, Pressure, and Light
label: 4; title: Tides, Waves, and Currents
label: 5; title: Plate Tectonics
label: 6; title: Plankton
label: 7; title: Algae, Seagrasses, and Blue-Green Bacteria
label: 8; title: Sponges
label: 9; title: Jellyfishes, Corals, Anemones, and Comb Jellies
label: 10; title: Clams, Snails, and Squids
label: 11; title: Barnacles, Crabs, Lobsters, and Shrimp
label: 12; title: Sea Stars, Sand Dollars, and Sea Urchins
label: 13; title: Seaworms
label: 14; title: Other Marine Invertebrates
label: 15; title: Sharks, Rays, and Lampreys
label: 16; title: Primitive Bony Fishes
label: 17; title: Advanced Bony Fishes
label: 18; title: Sea Turtles and Sea Snakes
label: 19; title: Whales and Dolphins
label: 20; title: Other Marine Mammals
label: 21; title: Seabirds
label: 22; title: Along the Coasts
label: 23