MILE DOWN! Oceanography through history

Credits

Design and technical services provided by Method Media.
Special thanks to Bruce Wood; Liz Murphy, Manager of World Ocean Forum On-Line Events; and Amelia Poole, World Ocean Observatory Web Manager.

Research and writing: Anne Witty, World Ocean Observatory Curator of Exhibits.

Scientific consultation: Special thanks to Dr. David A. Ross, Department of Geology & Geophysics, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, for content review; Dr. Tundi Agardy, Director of Sound Seas and Editor of the World Ocean Observatory Observer; and The NOAA Ocean Explorer, oceanographic research and monitoring website at http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/.

Photographs courtesy of: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA Photo Library; Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; marine photographer Philippe Plisson; National Air and Space Administration (NASA); The Library of Congress; and other individuals and entities (credited on the corresponding image).

We acknowledge with thanks the in-kind support and research libraries of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.

Sources consulted and further reading:
This bibliography is also posted under History of Marine Science at http://www.thew2o.net/publications.html.

Oceanographic History: The Pacific and Beyond. Proceedings of the Fifth International Congress on the History of Oceanography, Scripps, 1993 edited by Keith R. Benson and Philip F. Rehbock (University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2002)

Sea Legs: Tales of a Woman Oceanographer by Kathleen Crane (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado 2003)

Scientists and the Sea, 1650-1900: A Study of Marine Science by Margaret Deacon, (London and New York: Academic Press, 1971).

“Oceanographic Institutions,” The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, by Margaret Deacon (Oxford University Press, 2003), in Oxford Reference Online

Introduction to the World’s Oceans by Alyn Duxbury, Alison Duxbury and Keith Sverdrup (sixth edition, McGraw-Hill, Boston 2000)

Oceanography: A View of the Earth by M. Grant Gross (Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 1977)
Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine Science by Jacob Darwin Hamblin (University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2005)

Exploring the Ocean World: A History of Oceanography edited by C.P. Idyll  (Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York 1972)

“Oceanography,” The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, by Philip F. Rehbock and Gary Weir (Oxford University Press, 2003), in Oxford Reference Online

Introduction to Oceanography, by David A. Ross (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1988)
Fathoming the Ocean: The Discovery and Exploration of the Deep Sea by Helen Rozwadowski The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA and London, 2005)

The Sea Knows No Boundaries: A Century of Marine Science under ICES [International Council for the Exploration of the Sea] by Helen Rozwadowski (University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 2002)
“Small World: Forging a Scientific Maritime Culture for Oceanography” by Helen Rozwadowski, in Isis Vol. 87, No. 3 (Sept. 1996), pp. 409-429

The Edge of an Unfamiliar World: A History of Oceanography by Susan Schlee  (E.P. Dutton, New York, 1973)

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