An Ocean In Common
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Author | : Gary E. Weir |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1603447210 |
Through two victorious world conflicts and a Cold War, the U.S. Navy and American ocean scientists drew ever closer, converting an early marriage of necessity into a relationship of astonishing achievement. Beginning in 1919, Gary Weir's An Ocean in Common traces the first forty-two years of their joint quest to understand each other and the deep ocean.?Early in the twentieth century, American naval officers questioned the tactical and strategic significance of applied ocean science, demonstrating the gap between this kind of knowledge and that deemed critical to naval warfare. At the same time, scientists studying the ocean labored in their inadequately funded, discreet disciplines, seemingly content to keep naval warfare at arm's length. German U-boat success in World War I changed these views fundamentally, bringing ocean science insights to an increasing number of naval objectives.?Driven primarily by anti-submarine priorities, the physics, chemistry, and geology of the ocean, more than its biology, became the early focus of American ocean studies. The World War II experience solidified the Navy's relationship with ocean scientists, and the years after 1945 found the American military investing heavily in both applied and basic research. Today, oceanography is a permanent resident on the bridge of American fighting ships and the Navy continues to provide much of the impetus and funding for fundamental research, in both naval and civilian laboratories.In An Ocean in Common Gary Weir focuses on the compelling motives and carefully engineered course that brought scientists and naval officers together, across a considerable cultural divide, to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of one another and the world ocean. Weir details how this alliance laid the powerful multidisciplinary foundation for long-range ocean communication and surveillance, modern submarine warfare, deep submergence, and the emergence of oceanography and ocean engineering as independent and vital fields of study.
Author | : Naomi Oreskes |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 749 |
Release | : 2021-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022673241X |
A vivid portrait of how Naval oversight shaped American oceanography, revealing what difference it makes who pays for science. What difference does it make who pays for science? Some might say none. If scientists seek to discover fundamental truths about the world, and they do so in an objective manner using well-established methods, then how could it matter who’s footing the bill? History, however, suggests otherwise. In science, as elsewhere, money is power. Tracing the recent history of oceanography, Naomi Oreskes discloses dramatic changes in American ocean science since the Cold War, uncovering how and why it changed. Much of it has to do with who pays. After World War II, the US military turned to a new, uncharted theater of warfare: the deep sea. The earth sciences—particularly physical oceanography and marine geophysics—became essential to the US Navy, which poured unprecedented money and logistical support into their study. Science on a Mission brings to light how this influx of military funding was both enabling and constricting: it resulted in the creation of important domains of knowledge but also significant, lasting, and consequential domains of ignorance. As Oreskes delves into the role of patronage in the history of science, what emerges is a vivid portrait of how naval oversight transformed what we know about the sea. It is a detailed, sweeping history that illuminates the ways funding shapes the subject, scope, and tenor of scientific work, and it raises profound questions about the purpose and character of American science. What difference does it make who pays? The short answer is: a lot.
Author | : Matthew Lansburgh |
Publisher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2017-10-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1609385276 |
Three days after her twentieth birthday, a young woman who grew up in Germany during World War II crosses the Atlantic to start a new life. Outside Is the Ocean traces Heike’s struggle to find love and happiness in America. After two marriages and a troubled relationship with her son, Heike adopts a disabled child from Russia, a strong-willed girl named Galina, who Heike hopes will give her the affection and companionship she craves. As Galina grows up, Heike’s grasp on reality frays, and she writes a series of letters to the son she thinks has abandoned her forever. It isn’t until Heike’s death that her son finds these letters and realizes how skewed his mother’s perceptions actually were.
Author | : Philip J. Hatfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295746791 |
"...the rich history of the Pacific is explored through specific objects, each one beautifully illustrated, from the earliest human engagement with the Pacific through to the modern day. Entries cover mapping, trade, whaling, flora and fauna, and the myriad vessels used to traverse the ocean."--
Author | : Independent World Commission on the Oceans |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1998-09-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521644655 |
Summarizes the problems affecting the oceans and their future governance, and provides imaginative solutions.
Author | : Kim Dwinell |
Publisher | : Top Shelf Productions |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2021-12-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1684069963 |
The ocean is packed with plants, animals, water… and science! Ride the waves of knowledge with Sam and Jade as they explain all about the amazing wonders of the sea, and have a blast doing it. Have you ever wondered why the ocean has waves? Why the tide goes in and out? And how can coral be alive when it looks like a rock? From the pages of the beloved graphic novel series, join the Surfside Girls, Sam and Jade, for a great investigation into everything that makes the ocean so cool: from moon cycles and king tides, to why a wave breaks, to otters in kelp forests… with plenty of fun and jokes along the way. Plus, there’s a whole step-by-step chapter on how to surf! The Science of Surfing is the coolest way to take a beach vacation and learn at the same time.
Author | : Antony Adler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674972015 |
We have long been fascinated with the oceans and sought "to pierce the profundity" of their depths. But the history of marine science also tells us a lot about ourselves. Antony Adler explores the ways in which scientists, politicians, and the public have invoked ocean environments in imagining the fate of humanity and of the planet.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Administrative law |
ISBN | : |
Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.
Author | : Dorrik A. V. Stow |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 0199655073 |
Our oceans are hugely important, as a source of food and mineral wealth, as an environment for a vast variety of wildlife, for the role they play in climate regulation, and as part of the biogeochemical cycles of carbon, nitrogen, and other elements critical to life. Dorrik Stow explores what we know about how oceans originate and are maintained.
Author | : Sarah Friday |
Publisher | : University of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Coastal plants |
ISBN | : 9780807842126 |
Guide to Ocean Dune Plants Common to North Carolina