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  • 28 Climate Change Elevator Pitches

    Short Explanations on the Scientific Basis of Man-man Climate Change

    by Rob Honeycutt ...
    If you stepped into an elevator and had 2 minutes to explain some aspect of climate science to someone, could you do it? Most people lack the time to become fully informed on this critical issue. The science is complex and varied. Here are 28 quick pitches to help you better understand this issue which we should all be concerned about.Chapters01 ancient sunlight02 radiative gases03 the greenhouse ... Read more

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  • The Deepest Map

    The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans

    by Laura Trethewey ...
    A SCIENCE NEWS MAGAZINE BEST BOOK OF 2023A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF 2023“Should be required reading. . . . A gripping and all-too-timely account of what in more ways than one is turning out to be a very costly and questionably necessary race to the bottom. . . . Trethewey rises to the occasion here, relating in absorbing detail the ebb and flow of conflicting interests that tussle ... Read more

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  • Sharks: 101 Super Fun Facts And Amazing Pictures (Featuring The World's Top 10 Sharks With Coloring Pages)

    by Janet Evans ...
    Sharks: 101 Super Fun Facts And Amazing Pictures (Featuring The World's Top 10 Sharks) This book depicts the wonder of the world of Sharks in all its glory. Children are given a well-rounded understanding of this beautiful fish: its anatomy, feeding habits and behavior. The following Sharks are featured: Black Tip Reef Shark Bull Shark Great White Shark Hammerhead Shark Lemon Shark Leopard shark ... Read more

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  • Coastal Systems

    by Simon Haslett ...
    Series series Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environmental Science
    The coast represents the crossroads between the oceans, land and atmosphere, and all three contribute to the physical and ecological evolution of coastlines. Coasts are dynamic systems, with identifiable inputs and outputs of energy and material. Changes to input force coasts to respond, often in dramatic ways as attested by the impacts of the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, the landfall of ... Read more

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  • Marine Flatworms

    The World of Polyclads

    by Leslie Newman, Lester Cannon ...
    Marine Flatworms provides a fascinating introduction to the intriguing world of polyclad flatworms, a group of large, free-living marine Platyhelminthes, which are found throughout the world but are most colourful in tropical waters. Although not related to molluscs, they are often mistaken for sea slugs because of their brilliant colour patterns. Written in an accessible style by two leading ... Read more

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  • Oceanography and Marine Biology

    An annual review. Volume 59

    Edited by Stephen J. Hawkins ...
    Series series Oceanography and Marine Biology - An Annual Review
    CHOICE Highly Recommended, Sept 2022Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and ... Read more

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  • From Hurricanes to Epidemics

    The Ocean's Evolving Impact on Human Health - Perspectives from the U.S.

    Edited by Kevin Conrad ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a complete and current overview of the correlation between ocean conditions and human health, publishing comprehensively for the first time on the direct interactions among oceanography, marine biology and impacts on human health. Specifically the text addresses how changing ocean conditions result in health impacts and disruptions, with a focus on cases in the USA. The changing ... Read more

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  • Coastal and Marine Environments

    Edited by Yeqiao Wang ...
    Series series The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition
    Authored by world-class scientists and scholars, The Handbook of Natural Resources, Second Edition, is an excellent reference for understanding the consequences of changing natural resources to the degradation of ecological integrity and the sustainability of life. Based on the content of the bestselling and CHOICE-awarded Encyclopedia of Natural Resources, this new edition demonstrates the major ... Read more

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  • Marine Organic Micropollutants

    A Case Study of the Sundarban Mangrove Wetland

    by Santosh Kumar Sarkar ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The proposed book features a systematic and thorough treatment of the dominant persistent organic pollutants (POP's) encountered in the tropical marine environment of the Indian Sundarban mangrove wetlands, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Chapters provide a comprehensive and realistic account of the world’s most hazardous organic compounds. Readers will discover a detailed account of the ... Read more

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  • The Morphodynamics of the Wadden Sea

    by Jurgen Ehlers ...
    The Wadden Sea area of the North Sea is one which undergoes rapid morphological changes. Under natural conditions, the barrier islands would adjust them¬selves to a rising sea level. However, be¬cause the islands are densely populated and have an important role as holiday resorts, morphological changes are un¬desirable. Coastal engineering counter-measures have been undertaken to pre¬vent beach ... Read more

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  • One Crew: The RNLI's Official 200-Year History

    by Helen Doe ...
    In the 200 years since it was founded, the RNLI has saved more than 144,000 lives.It all began with a meeting in London in 1824 to act on a proposal by Sir William Hillary: the formation of a National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. It is his vision that still drives the RNLI today. The vast majority of its crews are volunteers, backed up by large numbers of fundraisers ... Read more

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  • Earth History of Oxygen and the iprOxy

    by Zunli Lu, Wanyi Lu, Rosalind E. M. Rickaby, Ellen Thomas ...
    Series series Elements in Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science
    How oxygen levels in Earth's atmosphere and oceans evolved has always been a central question in Earth System Science. Researchers have developed numerous tracers to tackle this question, utilizing geochemical characteristics of different elements. Iodine incorporated in calcium carbonate (including biogenic) minerals, reported as I/Ca, is a proxy for dissolved oxygen in seawater. Here we review ... Read more

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  • Statistical Methods for Climate Scientists

    by Timothy DelSole, Michael Tippett ...
    A comprehensive introduction to the most commonly used statistical methods relevant in atmospheric, oceanic and climate sciences. Each method is described step-by-step using plain language, and illustrated with concrete examples, with relevant statistical and scientific concepts explained as needed. Particular attention is paid to nuances and pitfalls, with sufficient detail to enable the reader ... Read more

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  • Sr Isotopes in Seawater

    Stratigraphy, Paleo-Tectonics, Paleoclimate, and Paleoceanography

    by B. Lynn Ingram, Donald J. DePaolo ...
    Series series Elements in Geochemical Tracers in Earth System Science
    Studies of Sr isotopic composition of thousands of samples of marine sediments and fossils have yielded a curve of 87Sr/86Sr versus age for seawater Sr that extends back to 1 billion years. The ratio has fluctuated with large amplitude during this time period, and because the ratio is always uniform in the oceans globally at any one time, it is useful as a stratigraphic correlation and age-dating ... Read more

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  • Obstinate Nature

    by Philippe Cury, Daniel Pauly ...
    “A system is viable only if it combines speed and slowness,” write Philippe Cury and Daniel Pauly. “Nature’s cycles tell us that viability requires a combination of these dynamics—fast and slow, innovation and inertia.” Obstinate Nature, a concise and powerful collaboration between two accomplished marine biologists, is centrally concerned with the imbalance in those dynamics that currently ... Read more

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  • The Future of U.S. Ocean Policy

    Choices For The New Century

    by Biliana Cicin-Sain, Robert Knecht ...
    The United States is about to embark on the most thorough reconsideration of its ocean policy in more than three decades. With 1998 designated as the International Year of the Ocean by the United Nations, and with both the executive branch and the Congress currently working toward developing new approaches to formulating and implementing ocean policy, a comprehensive overview of key issues and ... Read more

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  • Antarctic Glacial History and World Palaeoenvironments

    Edited by E.M. Zinderen van Bakker ...
    This book, based on the proceedings of third symposium held on 17th August 1977 during the Xth INQUA Congress at Birmingham, UK, focuses on the influence the Antarctic glaciation had on world palaeoenvironments. ... Read more

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  • Biogeochemistry of Marine Systems

    Edited by Kenneth D. Black, Graham B. Shimmield ...
    Series series Sheffield Biological Siences
    Marine systems vary in their sensitivities to perturbation. Perturbation may be insidious - such as increasing eutrophication of coastal areas - or it may be dramatic - such as a response to an oil spill or some other accident. Climate change may occur incrementally or it may be abrupt, and ecosystem resilience is likely to be a complex function of the interactions of the factors and species ... Read more

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  • The Ocean Basins and Margins

    The Pacific Ocean

    Edited by Alan E.M. Nairn, Francis G. Stehli, Seiya Uyeda ...

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  • Climate Atlas of the Atlantic Ocean

    Derived from the Comprehensive Ocean Atmosphere Data Set (COADS)

    by Ralf Lindau ...
    The presented climate atlas follows with regard to structure and vol ume the Bunker Climate Atlas of the North Atlantic Ocean published 1985 by H.-J. Isemer and L. Hasse, which has become a standard work for the climate study community. A new edition was appropriate, since during the last decade much progress was achieved in the correct interpretation of the wind speed reported by merchant ships. ... Read more

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  • Chemical Structure of Pelagic Redox Interfaces

    Observation and Modeling

    Edited by Evgeniy V. Yakushev ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Over the last few decades many studies have focused on the oxygen depletion of coastal and oceanic waters. An understanding of the processes involved is fundamental to assess the effects of global and climatic changes and to support an ecosystem approach to adaptive environmental management for coastal seas and ocean basins.This timely book presents the state-of-the-art of our knowledge of the ... Read more

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  • 中国海洋文化发展报告（2015年卷）

    by 曲金良 ...
    本書是教育部立項哲學社會科學發展報告之一，集中反映我國在已將建設「海洋強國」「文化強國」確定為國家戰略的背景下，我國海洋文化學界、政府海洋相關各界、沿海區域社會關於海洋文化意識、海洋文化觀念、海洋文化歷史、海洋文化事業、海洋文化產業、海洋文化生活、海洋文化教育、海洋文化規划管理等領域的基本面貌、存在問題、對策措施等的全面研究與發展狀況。 ... Read more

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  • A Primer on Fourier Analysis for the Geosciences

    by Robin Crockett ...
    Time-series analysis is used to identify and quantify periodic features in datasets and has many applications across the geosciences, from analysing weather data, to solid-Earth geophysical modelling. This intuitive introduction provides a practical 'how-to' guide to basic Fourier theory, with a particular focus on Earth system applications. The book starts with a discussion of statistical ... Read more

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  • Changing Tides

    An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene

    by Alejandro Frid ...
    Change the story and change the future – merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign AnthropoceneIn Changing Tides, Alejandro Frid tackles the big questions: who, or what, represents our essential selves, and what stories might allow us to shift the collective psyche of industrial civilization in time to avert the worst of the climate and biodiversity crises? Merging ... Read more

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