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Oceanographers
Oceanographers travel to extreme depths to learn new things about Earth’s oceans. They use science, technology, engineering, and math to study oceans. Readers explore how these common STEM topics are put into practice by oceanographers around the world. Fact boxes and a graphic organizer accompany engaging main text to provide additional information about this exciting career. Vibrant photographs of the extreme ocean environments studied by these scientists will hold the interest of even reluctant readers. Examples of real oceanographers give readers a glimpse into what life is like for those who’ve chosen such an extreme career.
Oceanographers and the Cold War
Oceanographers and the Cold War is about patronage, politics, and the community of scientists. It is the first book to examine the study of the oceans during the Cold War era and explore the international focus of American oceanographers, taking into account the roles of the U.S. Navy, United States foreign policy, and scientists throughout the world. Jacob Hamblin demonstrates that to understand the history of American oceanography, one must consider its role in both conflict and cooperation with other nations. Paradoxically, American oceanography after World War II was enmeshed in the military-industrial complex while characterized by close international cooperation. The military dimension...
Why We Study the Physics of the Ocean
This book reviews the field of physical oceanography, starting with its history and culminating in the past, present and future challenges of this scientific discipline. It introduces the different aspects of the science, and presents the observational and computational tools used by physical oceanographers. It discusses the day-to-day activities of the physical oceanographers located at universities, government laboratories and industry, and relates the physics of the ocean to such topical issues as climate change and ocean forecasting. The book also presents a review of the historical challenges for physical oceanography and an overview of some of the most important challenges facing physical oceanography today. Reading this book will prove useful to anyone wanting to better understand how the ocean fits into the complex system that makes up the global environment.
The Life and Activities of a Physical Oceanographer (John C. Swallow)
This report deals with the work and activities of Dr. John C. Swallow, a physical oceanographer. (Author)
Ocean Science and the British Cold War State
This book focuses on the activities of the scientific staff of the British National Institute of Oceanography during the Cold War. Revealing how issues such as intelligence gathering, environmental surveillance, the identification of ‘enemy science’, along with administrative practice informed and influenced the Institute’s Cold War program. In turn, this program helped shape decisions taken by Government, military and the civil service towards science in post-war Britain. This was not simply a case of government ministers choosing to patronize particular scientists, but a relationship between politics and science that profoundly impacted on the future of ocean science in Britain.
Oceanography in the Next Decade
Oceanography has moved into the spotlight of urgent social concern, because of the oceans' impact on issues such as global climate change, biodiversity, and even national security. This new volume points to improved partnerships between ocean scientists, federal agencies, and the oceanographic institutions as the key to understanding the oceans and their effects on our lives. Oceanography in the Next Decade outlines pressing marine research problems and offers recommendations for how they may be solved, with detailed discussions of: How oceanographic research is currently conducted. Recent discoveries and research needs in four subdisciplinesâ€"physical, chemical, geological, and biologic...
Oceanographers and Explorers of the Sea
Biographies of ten American scientists and pioneers of the study of ocean science make up this interesting book for young readers. Includes biographies of Maurice Ewing, Ernest Everett Just, Sylvia A. Earle, Roger Revelle, Walter Munk, Eugenie Clark, Henry Stommel, Allyn Vine, Robert Ballard, and Kathryn Sullivan. Undersea adventures with robot cameras, deep-diving submersibles, and laboratory experiments highlight the text, as author Kirk Polking discusses the technological advances that make underwater exploration possible, from the Titanic to the tiniest cells of sea creatures.
Modern Observational Physical Oceanography
The essential introduction to modern physical oceanography With the advent of computers, novel instruments, satellite technology, and increasingly powerful modeling tools, we know more about the ocean than ever before. Yet we also have a new generation of oceanographers who have become increasingly distanced from the object of their study. Ever fewer scientists collect the observational data on which they base their research. Instead, many download information without always fully understanding how far removed it is from the original data, with opportunity for great misinterpretation. This textbook introduces modern physical oceanography to beginning graduate students in marine sciences and ...
Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography
Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography is a practical referenceguide to established and modern data analysis techniques in earth and oceansciences. This second and revised edition is even more comprehensive with numerous updates, and an additional appendix on 'Convolution and Fourier transforms'. Intended for both students and established scientists, the fivemajor chapters of the book cover data acquisition and recording, dataprocessing and presentation, statistical methods and error handling,analysis of spatial data fields, and time series analysis methods. Chapter 5on time series analysis is a book in itself, spanning a wide diversity oftopics from stochastic processes and stationa...
