Understanding the oceans
Subtitle: a century of ocean exploration
By: edited by Margaret Deacon, Tony Rice and Colin Summerhayes
Contributors: Rice, A. L; Deacon, Margaret; Summerhayes, C. P.
Publisher: UCL Press; CRC Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
Subjects: Oceanography; Oceanography -- History -- 20th century; Marine sciences -- Research
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The Challenger Expedition: the end of an era or a new beginning? / A.L. Rice; title: 'Big science' in Victorian Britain: the Challenger Expedition (1872-6) and its Report (1881-95) / Harold L. Burstyn; title: Oceanographic sovereigns: Prince Albert I of Monaco and King Carlos I of Portugal / Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre; title: Expedition to investigation: the work of the Discovery Committee / Rosalind Marsden; title: Introduction: the exploration of the sea floor / Colin Summerhayes; title: Shape as a key to understanding the geology of the oceans / A.S. Laughton; title: Silent, strong and deep: the mystery of how basins fill / Dorrik A.V. Stow; title: Palaeoceanography: tapping the ocean's long-term memory / Brian M. Funnell; title: Hydrothermal activity at mid-ocean ridges / Christopher R. German; title: Introduction: ocean circulation / Henry Charnock, Margaret Deacon; title: Polar dreams and California sardines: Harald Ulrik Sverdrup and the study of ocean circulation prior to World War II / Robert Marc Friedman; title: Direct measurement of subsurface ocean currents: a success story / W. John Gould; title: Oceanography from space: past success, future challenge / T.H. Guymer, P.G. Challenor, M.A. Srokosz; title: Transient tracers and tracer release experiments: new tools for the oceanographer / Andrew Watson; title: The ocean ecosystem. Introduction / Tony Rice; title: 'Problem children of analytical chemistry': elucidating the seasonal cycle of marine plankton production through nutrient analysis / Eric L. Mills; title: Why is the sea salty? - what controls the composition of ocean water? / T. Roger S. Wilson, J. Dennis Burton; title: Deep-sea biology in the 1990s: a legacy of the Challenger Expedition / P.A. Tyler, A.L. Rice, C.M. Young; title: The Challenger legacy: the next twenty years / John Woods; title: Postscript: the Challenger Expedition on postage stamps / A.L. Rice