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Oceanography (Study Guide) (2ND 05 - Old Edition)
by Paul Billeter  Publisher Comments This Study Guide accompanies the Endless Voyage telecourse. Tom Garrison is a writer and science advisor for The Endless Voyage telecourse series....
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Overview of Land-based Sources and Activities Affecting the Marine Environment in the Ropme Sea Area.
by United Nations Environment Programme Book News Annotation A report on sources of possible degradation of marine environments within the UN Regional Office for West Asia, which includes the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. After looking at characteristics of the sea in the region as a whole, the report identifies...
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Sea of Dreamers: Travels with Famous Ocean Explorers
by Phil Trupp Publisher Comments Today, we know more about the dark side of the moon than we do about the Earth's seafloor, which covers three-quarters of our planet. In an effort to clear up some of the mysteries of the deep, noted explorer and author Phil Trupp takes us to another...
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Estuarine & Coastal Modeling Proceedings
by Malcolm L Spaulding Book News Annotation The primary focus of November 1999 conference is on application of models to bays, sounds, lagoons, estuaries, embayments, bights, and coastal seas. The 83 papers apply models to problems in hydrodynamics, water quality, and sediment transports...
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Physical Oceanography of the Baltic Sea (Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences)
by Matti Lepparanta Publisher Comments The Baltic Sea oceanographic research community is wide and the research history is over 100 years old. Nevertheless, there is still no single, coherent book on the physical oceanography of the Baltic Sea as a whole. There is a strong need for such a...
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Civilization and the limpet
by Martin Wells Publisher Comments Written during a long sea voyage from England through the Mediterranean, Civilization and the Limpet unveils many fascinating phenomena of undersea life. Wells captures with exquisite detail how limpets, like bees, navigate by the stars; how the...
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Oceanographic History: The Pacific and Beyond (Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on the History)
by Keith R. Benson Book News Annotation Originating from the July 1993 conference in La Jolla, California, 65 papers discuss the Scripps heritage, Pacific remembrances, myth and science, exploration, early contributors to ocean science, North American oceanography and marine biology...
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Water All Around (We Can Read about Nature)
by Catherine Nichols Publisher Comments Nature is full of mysteries to be uncovered and wonders to be explored. The eighteen titles in this reading series plunge early readers into the endless fascination of the natural world. An array of important scientific concepts such as camouflage...
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The Atlantic Ocean (Oceans)
by Anne Ylvisaker Publisher Comments Young readers will learn about the wonder and diversity of the world's oceans through this captivating collection of books. Geographical features of the ocean floor, characteristics of the water and climate, and interesting plants and animals that live...
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Introduction to the Worlds Oceans
by Keith A. Sverdrup Publisher Comments An Introduction to the World's Oceans, Tenth Edition, is an introductory oceanography text intended for students without a background in mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, or biology. It emphasizes the role of basic scientific principles in...
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Deep Atlantic: Life, Death and Exploration in the Abyss
by Richard Ellis Publisher Comments Open this book and you'll plunge five miles below the surface of the sea into a realm inhabited by living creatures that strain the bounds of credibility. Richard Ellis recounts stories of exploration of the deep sea and brings us face-to-face with these...
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Romanian Agriculture and Transition Toward the Eu (Rural Economies in Transition)
by Sophia Davidova And Kenneth J. Thomson Publisher Comments Reports the results of a number of recent studies on different aspects of the reform policies in the Romanian agri-food sector during its transition to a market economy....
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Shells and Shellfish of the Pacific Northwest: A Field Guide
by Rick Harbo Publisher Comments This easy to follow, full-colour guide introduces the more than 250 species of mollusks found along the beaches and shallow waters of the Pacific Northwest....
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The Evolution of the Pacific Ocean margins
by Zvi Ben-avraham Publisher Comments This book, written by a group of internationally known experts, describes the evolution of the Pacific Ocean margins in terms of their interaction with oceanic plates. The work reflects changes in recent years in accepted views concerning the evolution...
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Monographs on Oceanographic Methodology #10: Phytoplankton Pigments in Oceanography: Guidelines to Modern Methods
by S. W. (edt) Jeffrey Publisher Comments This comprehensive work stems from the activities of SCOR Working Group 78 (Determination of Photosynthetic Pigments in Seawater) established in 1985. It brings together in one volume all the oceanographer needs to measure and identify pigments as well...
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Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research #19: Submarine Mass Movements and Their Consequences with CDROM
by Jacques Locat Publisher Comments Did you know that the Grand Bank earthquake of 1929 triggered a huge submarine mass movement which broke submarine cables over a distance of up to 1000 km from its source and generated a tsunami which devastated a small village in Newfoundland killing 27...
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Handbook of Techniques for Aquatic Sediments Sampling
by Alena Mudroch Publisher Comments This up-to-date revision of a bestseller sets the standard for planning and implementing cost-effective sediment sampling programs. Handbook of Techniques for Aquatic Sediments Sampling, Second Edition is the only comprehensive text on procedures for...
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Small-Scale Turbulence in Oceans
by V. D. Pozdynin Publisher Comments The author presents a method for using hydrodynamics data to calculate the distribution of the probability of the number of perturbations of small-scale turbulence situated on the same vertical or the number of perturbations on the given horizontal...
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Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research #18: Tsunami Research at the End of a Critical Decade
by Gerald Hebenstreit Publisher Comments This volume, derived from the 1999 International Tsunami Symposium, presents a unique look at the state of tsunami research at the end of the 20th century. It displays recent progress both in data recovery and reconstructions of historical tsunamis and...
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The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals
by Peter Heller Publisher Comments For the crew of the eco-pirate ship the Farley Mowat, any day saving a whale is a good day to die. In The Whale Warriors, veteran adventure writer Peter Heller takes us on a hair-raising journey with a vigilante crew on their mission to stop illegal...
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