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Oceanography: The Past

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: A Commentary
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    Chapter 2 The Oceanographic and How It Grew
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    Chapter 3 The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: An Expanding Influence
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    Chapter 4 Changing Concepts of the Sea, 1550–1950: An Urban Perspective
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    Chapter 5 The 1959 Oceanographic Congress: An Informal History
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    Chapter 6 The R/V Atlantis and Her First Oceanographic Institution
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    Chapter 7 Reviving American Oceanography: Frank Lillie, Wickliffe Rose, and the Founding of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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    Chapter 8 Growth of an Oceanographic Institution
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    Chapter 9 Alexander Agassiz (1835–1910) and the Financial Support of Oceanography in the United States
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    Chapter 10 The Annisquam Sea-side Laboratory of Alpheus Hyatt, Predecessor of the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, 1880–1886
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    Chapter 11 Some Aspects of Anglo-American Co-operation in Marine Science, 1660–1914
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    Chapter 12 Edward H. Smith and the 1928 Marion Expedition Revisited: A Compilation
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    Chapter 13 The Role of T. Wayland Vaughan in American Oceanography
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    Chapter 14 A Brief History of the Tortugas Marine Laboratory and the Department of Marine Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington
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    Chapter 15 Some Aspects of the History of Oceanography as Seen through the Publications of the International Hydrographic Bureau 1919–1939
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    Chapter 16 The Plan for an International Oceanographic Congress Proposed by H.S.H. the Prince Albert 1st of Monaco
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    Chapter 17 Oceanographic Prescience: The Deliberations of the First U.S. Interagency Conference on Oceanography, July 1, 1924
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    Chapter 18 Some Historical Backgrounds for the Establishment of the Stazione Zoologica at Naples
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    Chapter 19 A Review of Wüst’s Classification of the Major Deep-sea Expeditions 1873–1960 and Its Extension to Recent Oceanographic Research Programs
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    Chapter 20 The Role of Instruments in the Development of Physical Oceanography
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    Chapter 21 Meso-scale Spatial Distribution of Plankton: Co-evolution of Concepts and Instrumentation
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    Chapter 22 Some Origins and Perspectives in Deep-ocean Instrumentation Development
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    Chapter 23 The Historical Development of Tidal Science, and the Liverpool Tidal Institute
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    Chapter 24 Six’s Thermometer: A Century of Use in Oceanography
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    Chapter 25 North Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Observations: A History
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    Chapter 26 Some Aspects of the Historical Development on the Studies of the Kuroshio and the Oyashio
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    Chapter 27 Seasonal Changes in the Suez Canal Following Its Opening in 1869: Newly Discovered Hydrographic Records of 1870–1872
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    Chapter 28 The First Geological-Oceanological Studies of the Black Sea (N.F. Andrusov, A.D. Arkhangel’sky, N.M. Strakhov)
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    Chapter 29 The First Deep Ocean Drilling
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    Chapter 30 Geological and Oceanographical Studies in the Caspian Sea and Problems of Oil and Gas Deposits
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    Chapter 31 The Development of Marine Chemistry until 1900
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    Chapter 32 Physical Oceanography of the Chilean Sea: An Historical Study
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    Chapter 33 From the Physiology of Marine Organisms to Oceanographic Physiology or Physiological Oceanography
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    Chapter 34 Alexander Agassiz, Carl Chun and the Problem of the Intermediate Fauna
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    Chapter 35 The British Association Dredging Committee: A Brief History
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    Chapter 36 Development of Knowledge of the Correlation between Land and Sea in Historical Times
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    Chapter 37 A Commemoration on the 50th Anniversary of the William Beebe-Otis Barton Bathysphere Dives
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    Chapter 38 Marine Industrial Pollution
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    Chapter 39 The History of Chlorinated Hydrocarbon Pollution in the Marine Environment
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    Chapter 40 Artificial Radionuclides in the Oceans
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    Chapter 41 The Royal Society and the Study of Coral Reefs
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    Chapter 42 Early 19th Century Oceanography around Terra Australis
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    Chapter 43 The Plankton-Expedition and the Copepod Studies of Friedrich and Maria Dahl
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    Chapter 44 Studies on Estuarine-Marine Dependency
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    Chapter 45 History of Polish Biological Oceanographic Research
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    Chapter 46 On the Environment and Unity in Marine Research
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    Chapter 47 Phytoplankton Ecology before 1900: Supplementary Notes to the “Depths of the Ocean”
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    Chapter 48 The Victorian Aquarium in Ecological and Social Perspective
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    Chapter 49 The Development of Biological Studies in the Ocean Environment
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    Chapter 50 Physical Oceanography in India: An Historical Sketch
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    Chapter 51 Switzerland’s Contributions to the Aquatic Sciences over the Centuries
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    Chapter 52 Traditional Chinese Ichthyology and Its Encounter with Jesuit Science: An Historical Survey
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    Chapter 53 On the History of Arab Navigation
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    Chapter 54 Vila do Infante (Prince-Town), the First School of Oceanography in the Modern Era: An Essay
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    Chapter 55 King Carlos of Portugal, a Pioneer in European Oceanography
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    Chapter 56 Studies of the Acceptance of Plate Tectonics
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    Chapter 57 How Secure is Plate Tectonics?
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    Chapter 58 Early Observations and Investigations of El Niño: the Event of 1925
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    Chapter 59 Oceanography Development in Peru
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    Chapter 60 Oceanography and Geophysical Theory in the First Half of the Twentieth Century: The Dutch School
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    Chapter 61 Belgium and the Early Development of Modern Oceanography, Including a Note on A.F. Renard
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    Chapter 62 The Forsters’ Offenses against Convention during and after Capt. Cook’s Second Voyage around the World and the Governmental Reprisals
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    Chapter 63 The Meteor Expedition, an Ocean Survey
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    Chapter 64 The Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Folger Charts of the Gulf Stream
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    Chapter 65 William De Brahm’s “Continuation of the Atlantic Pilot,” an Empirically Supported Eighteenth-century Model of North Atlantic Surface Circulation
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    Chapter 66 Considerations on the Medical Use of Marine Invertebrates
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    Chapter 67 The Siting and Development of Mediterranean Harbors in Antiquity
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    Chapter 68 Sebastos, the Harbor Complex of Caesarea Maritima, Israel: The Preliminary Report of the 1978 Underwater Explorations
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    Chapter 69 Gondwanaland in Ancient Indian Literature
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Title
Oceanography: The Past
Published by
Springer, New York, NY, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-1-4613-8090-0
ISBNs
978-1-4613-8092-4, 978-1-4613-8090-0
Editors

Mary Sears, Daniel Merriman

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Student > Ph. D. Student 1 11%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 11%
Student > Bachelor 1 11%
Unknown 6 67%
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Environmental Science 2 22%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 11%
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