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Just 2 inches long full-grown, this little guy is the foundation of the Southern Ocean food chain... "Hi. What are you? You appear to be an egg. You are an egg sinking. For many days, you sink. You sink a mile down, and you keep sinking down... down... until..." The unidentified narrator follows one krill among billions as it pursues its brief existence, eating and eating while metamorphosing from one thing into another and trying to avoid being eaten. Questions and advice are hurled at the krill on every page, but the krill never responds--because, after all, krill can't talk, and this is nonfiction. Krill are the largest animals able to catch and eat phytoplankton, and they in turn are eaten by the largest animals ever to live on earth--blue whales--as well as by seals, penguins, and a host of others. In other words, krill are really good at eating, and they make really good eating. And that makes them the most important animals in the high-latitude oceans. As in The Whale Fall Caf̌, Dan Tavis's illustrations combine scientific accuracy with Nemo liveliness and humor. Our star krill is so good at gobbling up phytoplankton that he turns green, so we can pick him out from the crowd racing to escape a penguin's beak or a blue whale's gaping maw. The book has been reviewed and endorsed by global krill expert Dr. Stephen Nichol, and the manuscript earned an honorable mention in Minnesota's McKnight Artist Fellowships for Writers. Helpful backmatter is included.

"Much of our biological and biomedical knowledge derives from studying marine model systems. In this new handbook world-leading experts describe the cutting-edge work and potential for their unique model system. This will be a gold mine for students and scientists from all fields of life sciences"-- Provided by publisher

• Puget Sound then and now
• Geological origins of the Puget Sound
• Water
• Geomorphology of Puget Sound
• Early biology of Puget Sound
• Humans arrive
• Physical sound today
• Biology of Puget Sound
• Protecting and restoring Puget Sound
• Puget Sound in the future.

"The Puget Sound is a complex fjord-estuary system in Washington State that is connected to the Pacific Ocean by the Juan de Fuca Strait and surrounded by several large population centers. This book describes the natural history and evolution of Puget Sound over the last 100 million years through the present and into the future"-- Provided by publisher.

"With its clear and conversational writing style, comprehensive coverage, and sophisticated presentation, "Marine Biology: Function, Biodiversity, Ecology", Sixth Edition, is regarded by many as the most authoritative marine biology text. Over the course of six editions, Jeffrey Levinton has balanced his organismal and ecological focus by including the latest developments on molecular biology, global climate change, and ocean processes"-- Provided by publisher.

• 1. The Origin of the Ocean. 2. A History of Marine Science. 3. Earth Structure and Plate Tectonics. 4. Ocean Basins. 5. Sediments. 6. Water and Ocean Structure. 7. Ocean Chemistry. 8. Circulation of the Atmosphere. 9. Circulation of the Ocean. 10. Waves. 11. Tides. 12. Coasts. 13. Life in the Ocean. 14. Primary Producers. 15. Marine Animals. 16. Marine Communities. 17. Marine Resources. 18. The Ocean and the Environment. Afterword.
• Appendix 1. Measurements and Conversions.
• Appendix 2. Geologic Time.
• Appendix 3. Latitude and Longitude, Time, and Navigation.
• Appendix 4. Maps and Charts.
• Appendix 5. The Beaufort Scale.
• Appendix 6. Taxonomic Classification of Marine Organisms.
• Appendix 7. Periodic Table of the Elements.
• Appendix 8. Working in Marine Science.
• Appendix 9. The World Ocean Seafloor.
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Developed in partnership with the National Geographic Society, OCEANOGRAPHY: AN INVITATION TO MARINE SCIENCE, 10th edition gives you a basic understanding of the complexities and uncertainties involved in ocean use as well as its role in sustaining life on Earth. Thoroughly updated with the latest findings from the field, the text includes new coverage of important issues such as climate change. Emphasizing the science process throughout, it helps you see how concepts from other scientific fields relate to topics in oceanography. Co-author Robert Ellis draws from his experience managing research projects and educational programs throughout the world, and a diverse group of National Geographic Explorers share their unique insights on key concepts. In addition, MindTap equips you with a wealth of anywhere, anytime digital learning solutions.
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"A beautifully illustrated nonfiction story following great whites, hammerheads, whale sharks, and more over the course of one day"-- Provided by publisher.

• The betrothed of destiny the three copecks
• The disowned princess
• The legend of Kae's theft of the whale
• Here be monsters
• The fisherman and the draug
• Origin of the Narwhal
• Kahalaopuna, Princess of Manoa
• The mermaid's vengeance
• The merman
• The old man who became a fish
• Tom Moore and the seal woman
• The fisherman and his wife
• Thunder and Anansi
• Benito, the faithful servant
• The Black Pearl
• The Story of Urashima Taro, the fisher lad.

"An illustrated collection of traditional folktales about the sea, from around the world"-- Provided by publisher.

• Bridging the sea
• North Sea
• Baltic Sea
• Black Sea
• Red Sea
• Arabian Sea
• South China Sea
• The Mediterranean
• North Sea and Baltic Sea
• Indian Ocean
• The Atlantic
• The Pacific
• The globalization of the seas
• Dangers and endangerment.

"Offering an introduction to the world's seas as a platform for global exchange and connection, Michael North offers an impressive world history of the seas over more than 3,000 years. Exploring the challenges and dangers of the oceans that humans have struggled with for centuries, he also shows the possibilities and opportunities they have provided from antiquity to the modern day. Written to demonstrate the global connectivity of the seas, but also to highlight regional maritime power during different eras, From Harbour to Horizon takes sailors, merchants and migrants as the protagonists of these histories and explores how their experiences and perceptions of the seas were consolidated through trade and cultural exchange. Bringing together the various maritime historiographies of the world and underlining their unity, this book shows how the ocean has been a vital and natural space of globalization. Carrying goods, creating alliances, linking continents and conveying culture, the history of the ocean played a central role in creating our modern globalized world"-- Provided by publisher.

This beautiful natural history counting book features artist Nikki McClure's stunning papercut artwork of flora and fauna found in and alongside the Salish Sea. A celebration of the unique Salish Sea ecosystem, this counting book will inspire kids to learn more about the creatures who are found here, like stubby squids, lumpsuckers, banana slugs, orcas, nudibranchs, and sculpin. Each image is lovingly created by artist Nikki McClure in her intricate papercut style and captures her passion for this special place in the Pacific Northwest.
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A personal and political history of Salinas and the Salinas Valley, Steinbeck Country, 1970-2010. As an organizer, activist and campaign manager, Karnes came to Salinas to change the world and did so but was also changed in the process. This book is for all those who call Salinas 'home' or are interested in the affairs of Salinas after the passing of John Steinbeck

The ocean conceals secrets, ancient, modern, and future. Nic Flemming's memoir recounts the life of a pioneer in ocean science. Each chapter describes a thread that structured his work: underwater cities, submerged Ice Age caverns dripping with stalactites, the limits to ocean exploitation, ocean climate change, prehistoric settlements on the continental shelf, ocean law, and safe scientific diving. Flemming is paralysed from the chest down and has used a wheelchair for the past 52 years; one chapter assesses how he has continued to work in rough conditions and at sea, visiting 60 countries since his accident. Flemming's early experience with the Royal Marines Special Boat Service provided the foundation for a scientific research career under water. Intrigued by a report of a sunken city seen from a helicopter, he set out to map the submerged Greek city at Apollonia, near Benghazi, in 1958-59, as a Cambridge undergraduate. Doctoral research on the cause of submergence and uplift of hundreds of coastal Mediterranean ruins was followed by adventures in now-submerged caves from the Ice Ages when the sea level was lower. In 1965, as industry awakened to the potential of seabed exploitation, Flemming journeyed around the world to assess marine technology and forecast future developments for UK industries. This led to participation in the UN Committee on the Law of the Sea and in the design of a Global Ocean Observing System. Flemming later turned to academic research around submerged stratified prehistoric settlements. Advances in seabed mapping now enable marine archaeologists to study and plot numerous sites in the context of the Ice Age terrestrial landscape. This is a multi-disciplinary adventure story that argues that different skills and fields can interact creatively with surprising results. It will be enjoyed by all those interested in the development of underwater archaeology, climate science, and ocean exploration.

"A picture book autobiography about Jill Heinerth's experiences as a female diver, exploring life under the water."-- Provided by publisher

• I: Level. The real problem
• Measuring consciousness
• Phi
• II: Content. Perceiving from the inside out
• The wizard of odds
• The beholder's share
• III: Self. Delirium
• Expect yourself
• Being a beast machine
• A fish in water
• Degrees of freedom
• IV: Other. Beyond human
• Machine minds

"Being you is an unprecedented tour of consciousness thats to new experimental evidence, much of white comes from Seth's own lab. His radical argument is that we do not perceive the world as it objectively is, but rather that we are prediction machines, constantly inventing our world and correcting our mistakes by the microsecond, and that we can now observe the biological mechanisms in the brain that accomplish this process of consciousness."--Provided by publisher

• Introduction: Aesop's swallows
• The botanist who named the animals
• The taxidermist and the bison
• The hellcat and the hawks
• The forester and the green fire
• The professor and the elixir of life
• The eagle and the whooping crane
• The scientists who escaped the tower
• The rhino and the commons
• The few who save the many
• Homo amphibus

In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the history of the movement to protect and conserve other forms of life. From early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today's global effort to defend life on a larger scale, Nijhuis's "spirited and engaging" account documents "the changes of heart that changed history" (Dan Cryer, Boston Globe). With "urgency, passion, and wit" (Michael Berry, Christian Science Monitor), she describes the vital role of scientists and activists such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, reveals the origins of vital organizations like the Audubon Society and the World Wildlife Fund, explores current efforts to protect species such as the whooping crane and the black rhinoceros, and confronts the darker side of modern conservation, long shadowed by racism and colonialism. As the destruction of other species continues and the effects of climate change wreak havoc on our world, Beloved Beasts charts the ways conservation is becoming a movement for the protection of all species?including our own.
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• Introduction: A different light
• PART 1. Deep Seeing. Seeing
• Fiat lux
• First flash
• The stars below
• Strange illumination
• A bioluminescent minefield
• Seas sowed with fire
• PART 2. To Know the Dark. Glorious puzzles
• Stories in the dark
• Plan B
• The language of light
• PART 3. Here Be Dragons. The edge of the map
• The Kraken revealed
• Talking to cannibals
• Epilogue: A case for optimism

"Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Her focus turned to oceanic bioluminescence, a scientific frontier in our last earthly one, and with little promise of funding or employment she took a leap into the darkness. On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental diving suit that took her to a depth of eight hundred feet, she turned off the suit's lights and witnessed breathtaking explosions of bioluminescent activity. Concerns about her career went out the window. She just wanted to know one thing: Why was there so much light down there? Below the Edge of Darkness takes readers deep into our planet's oceans as Widder pursues her questions about one of the most important and widely used forms of communication in nature. In the process, she reveals hidden worlds and a dazzling menagerie of behaviors and animals, from microbes to leviathans, many never-before-seen or, like the legendary Giant Squid, never-before-filmed in its deep-sea lair. Alongside Widder, we experience life-and-death equipment malfunctions and witness breakthroughs in technology and understanding, all of it set against a growing awareness of the deteriorating health of our largest and least understood ecosystem"-- Provided by publisher

• Preface
• 1. Review of multiple linear regression
• 2. Beyond least squares: using likelihoods
• 3. Distribution theory
• 4. Poisson regression
• 5. Generalized linear models: a unifying theory
• 6. Logistic regression
• 7. Correlated data
• 8. Introduction to multilevel models
• 9. Two-level longitudinal data
• 10. Multilevel data with more than two levels
• 11. Multilevel generalized linear models
• Bibliiography
• Index

"If you like your books to be brimming with interesting science, then dive in!" -Tristan Gooley, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Read Water An intimate account of the beauty, mystery, and amazing science of the ocean. In The Blue Wonder, marine biologist and diver Frauke Bagusche brings readers on a fascinating and beautiful deep-sea dive into the ocean. Drawing on scientific discoveries and her own research, she uses photographs and playful prose to reveal: deep-sea reefs that glitter like glass fish that converse with each other by singing--loudly an octopus that imitates more than fifteen other animals the secret behind why the sea glows at night "weddings" that happen amongst the coral underwater "drugstores" and even fish that clean her own teeth! Humans know more about the moon's surface than we do about the ocean. There is so much to be discovered, under the sea. With the heart of a poet and the mind of a scientist, Frauke Bagusche re-awakens our love for the sea and ignites a desire to protect this vital habitat.
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• Prelude
• PART 1. EXPLORE. Here is the deep
• The whale and the worm
• Caught in a jelly web
• In a chemical world
• Highs and lows
• PART 2. DEPEND. Deep matters
• Deep cures
• PART 3. EXPLOIT. Fishing deep
• The eternal junkyard
• What's mine is yours
• PART 4. PRESERVE. Green vs blue
• A sanctuary in the deep
• Epilogue

"The oceans have always shaped human lives," writes marine biologist Helen Scales in her vibrant new book The Brilliant Abyss, but the surface and the very edges have so far mattered the most. "However, one way or another, the future ocean is the deep ocean." A golden era of deep-sea discovery is underway. Revolutionary studies in the deep are rewriting the very notion of life on Earth and the rules of what is possible. In the process, the abyss is being revealed as perhaps the most amazing part of our planet, with a topography even more varied and extreme than its Earthbound counterpart. Teeming with unsuspected life, an extraordinary interconnected ecosystem deep below the waves has a huge effect on our daily lives, influencing climate and weather systems worldwide. Currently the fantastic creatures that live in the deep-many of them incandescent in a world without light-and its formations trap vast quantities of carbon that would otherwise poison our atmosphere; and novel bacteria as yet undiscovered hold the promise of potent new medicines. Yet the deep also contains huge mineral riches lusted after by many nations and corporations; mining them could ultimately devastate the planet, compounding the deepening impacts of ubiquitous pollutants and rampant overfishing. Eloquently and passionately, Helen Scales brings to life the majesty and mystery of an alien realm that nonetheless sustains us, while urgently making clear the price we could pay if it is further disrupted. The Brilliant Abyss is at once a revelation and a clarion call to preserve this vast unseen world"-- Provided by publisher