• Prelude
• Ocean
• Wind
• Coast
• Ice
• Deep
• Current
• Front.

"The Southern Ocean is a wild and elusive place, an ocean like no other. With its waters lying between the Antarctic continent and the southern coastlines of Australia, New Zealand, South America, and South Africa, it is the most remote and inaccessible part of the planetary ocean, the only part that flows around Earth unimpeded by any landmass. It is notorious amongst sailors for its tempestuous winds and hazardous fog and ice. Yet it is a difficult ocean to pin down. Its southern boundary, defined by the icy continent of Antarctica, is constantly moving in a seasonal dance of freeze and thaw. To the north, its waters meet and mingle with those of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans along a fluid boundary that defies the neat lines of a cartographer." So begins Joy McCann's Wild Sea, the remarkable story of the world's remote Southern, or Antarctic, Ocean. Unlike the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, and Arctic Oceans with their long maritime histories, little is known about the Southern Ocean. This book takes readers beyond the familiar heroic narratives of polar exploration to explore the nature of this stormy circumpolar ocean and its place in Western and Indigenous histories. Drawing from a vast archive of charts and maps, sea captains' journals, whalers' log books, missionaries' correspondence, voyagers' letters, scientific reports, stories, myths, and her own experiences, McCann embarks on a voyage of discovery across its surfaces and into its depths, revealing its distinctive physical and biological processes as well as the people, species, events, and ideas that have shaped our perceptions of it. The result is both a global story of changing scientific knowledge about oceans and their vulnerability to human actions and a local one, showing how the Southern Ocean has defined and sustained southern environments and people over time. Beautifully and powerfully written, Wild Sea will raise a broader awareness and appreciation of the natural and cultural history of this little-known ocean and its emerging importance as a barometer of planetary climate change.
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Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history that examines the relationship between humans and oceans, reaching back across geological and evolutionary time and exploring different cultures around the globe. Our ancient connections with the sea have developed and multiplied with industrialization and globalization, a trajectory that runs counter to Western depictions of the ocean as a place remote from and immune to human influence. This book argues that knowledge about the ocean - discovered through work and play, scientific investigation, and also through the ambitions people have harboured for the sea - has played a central role in defining our relationship with this vast, trackless and opaque place. It has helped people exploit marine resources, control ocean space, extend imperial or national power, and attempt to refashion the sea into a more tractable arena for human activity. An understanding of the ocean has animated and strengthened connections between people and their seas. To comprehend this history we must address questions of how, by whom and why knowledge of the ocean was created and used, in both the past and the present; through this, we can forge a healthier relationship with the sea for the future.
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"Hoare brings readers on a journey in pursuit of human and animal stories of the sea. Along the way, he encounters drowned poets and eccentric artists, modernist writers and era-defining performers, wild utopians and national heroes famous or infamous, who are all surprisingly, and sometimes fatally, linked to the sea."--Provided by publisher.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Definitions, data collection and analysis
• 3. Research capacity and research infrastructure
• 4. The funding for ocean science
• 5. Research productivity and science impact
• 6. Oceanographic data, information management and exchange / Hernan E. Garcia, Ariel H. Troisi, Bob Keeley, Greg Reed, Linda Pikula, Lisa Raymond, Henrik Enevoldsen, Peter Pissierssens
• 7. International organizations supporting ocean science
• 8. Contribution of ocean science to the development of ocean and coastal policies and sustainable development --Annexes (A. Contributors
• B. Acronyms and abbreviations
• C. Global Ocean Science Report questionnaire
• D. GOSR data and information management survey 2016
• E. International scientific conferences
• F. Bibliometric indicators (2010-2014) G. IODE regional grouping).

"The Global Ocean Science Report (GOSR) assesses for the first time the status and trends in ocean science capacity around the world. The report offers a global record of who, how, and where ocean science is conducted: generating knowledge, helping to protect ocean health, and empowering society to support sustainable ocean management in the framework of the United Nations Agenda 2030. The GOSR identifies and quantifies the key elements of ocean science at the national, regional and global scales, including workforce, infrastructure and publications. This is the first collective attempt to systematically highlight opportunities as well as capacity gaps to advance international collaboration in ocean science and technology. This report is a resource for policy makers, academics and other stakeholders seeking to harness the potential of ocean science to address global challenges. A comprehensive view of ocean science capacities at the national and global levels takes us closer to developing the global ocean science knowledge needed to ensure a healthy, sustainable ocean"--GOSR's website.

• Synthetic seas
• Junk & gyre
• IMUA
• Junk-o-philia: our obsession with stuff
• Thrown away
• Coming unscrewed: the little fish in the big sea
• "Junk in, junk out"
• Guadalupe loop: the recycling myth
• Too wasteful to value: ChicoBag vs. plastic-bag lobby
• Waves and windmills: a case for the eco-pragmatist
• Wasting away: the fate, fallacy, and fantasy of ocean cleanup
• Synthetic drift: human health and our trash
• Little fish bites big fish
• A plastic smog
• The great divide: the linear vs. circular economy
• A revolution by design
• Embrace.

"An exciting account of an activist scientist's unorthodox fight in the growing movement against plastic marine pollution and of his expedition across the Pacific on a home-made "junk raft" Over the past several years, the news media has brought the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch"--The famous swirling gyre of plastic litter in the ocean--into the public consciousness. When Marcus Eriksen cofounded the 5 Gyres Institute with his wife, Anna, and set out to study marine pollution, they found that the reality is even more dire: instead of a stable mass of litter, they discovered that a "plastic smog" of microparticles permeates the world's oceans, defying simplistic clean-up efforts. What's more, these microplastics and their toxic chemistry have seeped into the food chain, threatening marine life and humans alike. Far from being a gloomy treatise on an environmental catastrophe, though, Junk Raft tells the exciting story of Eriksen's fight to raise awareness and solve the problem of plastic pollution, contributing to a fast-growing movement to stem the tide of trash. Eriksen writes of his voyage from Los Angeles to Hawaii aboard his homemade "junk raft," and along the way he recounts the successful efforts to fight corporate influence and demand that plastics producers take responsibility for a problem they've created. Eriksen provides concrete, actionable solutions and an empowering message: it's up to bold, brash, unapologetically activist "citizen scientists" to challenge the status quo for the sake of the planet"-- Provided by publisher.

• The great thermonuclear sea
• Mr. Ibuka's radio revolution
• The ecstasies of wave-riding
• A dire and dangerous irritation
• Farewell, all my friends and foes
• Echoes of distant thunder
• How goes the lucky country?
• The fires in the deep
• A fragile and uncertain sea
• Of masters and commanders
• Epilogue: the call of the running tide.

The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.

In Indian context.

• Contents: Foreword, Philip Steinberg-- Introduction, Mike Brown and Barbara Humberstone-- Seascapes, Mike Brown-- Embodied narratives: being with the sea, Barbara Humberstone-- Seaspaces: surfing the sea as pedagogy of self, lisahunter-- On being shaped by surfing: experiencing the world of the littoral zone, Jon Anderson-- Sailing across the Cook Strait, Robyn Zink-- Being a brown bodyboarder, Mihi Nemani-- Sailing with Gregory Bateson, Peter Reason-- In the middle of the deep blue sea, Karen Barbour-- Standing then floating: searching for a sense of sea-place on the South Coast of Australia, Brian Wattchow-- In the name of the whale, Robbie Nicol-- Unlikely becomings: passion, swimming and learning to love the sea, Karen Throsby-- 'Do we keel haul the little %$#@ or chuck him in the chain locker?': how life at sea becomes 'stories to live by' for a woman on a fishing vessel, elke emerald and Fiona Ewing-- Embodied narratives and fluid geographies, Barbara Humberstone and Mike Brown-- Index.
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Despite the fact that the sea covers 70 per cent of the Eartha (TM)s surface, and is integral to the workings of the world, it has been largely neglected or perceived as marginal in modern consciousness. This edited collection disrupts notions of the sea as a "othera (TM), as foreign and featureless, through specific, situated accounts which highlight the centrality of the sea for the individuals concerned. Bringing together academics who combine scholarly expertise with lived experiences on, in and with the sea, it examines humansa (TM) relationships with the sea. Through the use of auto-ethnographic accounting, the contributors reflect on how the sea has shaped their sense of identity, belonging and connection. They examine what it is to be engaged with the sea, and narrate their lived, sentient, corporeal experiences. The sea is a cultural seascape just as it is physical reality. The sea shapes us and we, in turn, attempt to a "shape ita (TM) as we construct various versions of it that reflect our on-going and mutable relationship with it. The use of embodied accounts, as a way of conveying lived-experiences, and the integration of relevant theoretical frames for understanding the broader cultural implications provide new opportunities to understand seascapes.
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