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Peter Coonradt"s film Between The Tides is the story of former marine biologist Bud Laurent's quest to "come full circle" and re-attach himself to his past, and perhaps to himself. Laurent uses the works and philosophy of prototypical ecologist Ed Ricketts as a thread to visit and reflect with some remarkable people--folks living "an Ed Ricketts kind of life"--who call the Pacific Coast their home. These are people we would like to know, and deeper down would like to become. Transport these folks back in time 70 years, and they would have been right at home in Ricketts's lab group, bantering with John and Carol Steinbeck, Joseph Campbell, John Cage, and Bruce and Jean Ariss. It's Laurent, his friends, and others like them who keep the spirit of the lab group alive. Watch this film and you will be reminded of a line by Craig Johnson: "You must be worthy ... the Old Ones speak with you."

• Editor's note
• Introduction
• Biographical essay
• 1936-1938
• 1939-1940
• 1941-1942
• 1943-1945
• 1946-1948
• Works cited
• Index.

Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic literary characters - "Doc" in Cannery Row, "Slim" in Of Mice and Men, Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath, and Lee in East of Eden. The correspondence of this accomplished scientist, writer, and philosopher reveals the influential exchange of ideas he shared with such prominent thinkers and artists as Henry Miller, Joseph Campbell, Ellwood Graham, and James Fitzgerald, in addition to Steinbeck - all of whom were drawn to Ricketts's Monterey Bay laboratory, a haven of intellectual discourse and Bohemian culture in the 1930s and 1940s. The 134 previously unpublished letters of this collection, housed at the Stanford University Library, document the broad range of Ricketts's interests and accomplishments during the last 12 and most productive years of his life. His handbook on Pacific marine life, Between Pacific Tides, is still in print, now in its fifth edition. The biologist's devotion to ecological conservation and his evolving philosophy of science as a cross-disciplinary, holistic pursuit led to the publication of The Sea of Cortez. Many of Ricketts's letters discuss his studies of the Pacific littoral and his theories of "phalanx" and transcendence. Epistles to family members, often tender and humorous, add dimension and depth to Steinbeck's mythologized depictions of Ricketts. Editor Katharine A. Rodger has enriched the correspondence with an introduction, a biographical essay, and a list of works cited. The book will be important for students of John Steinbeck and the development of 20th-century American fiction, as well as those interested in the history of science, especially in the fields of marine biology and ecology.
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• Of myths and men
• The trilogy
• Terra incognita
• Clayoquot, Stubbs Island
• The great tide pool
• Breaking through
• Stories to tell
• The lab
• The Jesus walk
• A hero's journey
• Galapagos of the north
• Farewell party
• In Toto
• Death or departure
• Laying the ghost

In the 1930s, Ricketts was a lone, largely marginalized scientist--an outcast to academia with no university degrees, memberships or honors--and his pioneering ideas were at first dismissed by the scientific establishment. Today he's usually remembered as "Doc," the beer-drinking philosopher-scientist in Steinbeck's Cannery Row, but Ricketts was actually a trailblazing ecologist who did seminal work in the emerging field on the Pacific Coast, and whose ideas, viewpoints and warnings remain timely sixty years later.

The year is 1998. Nick Karolides is a marine biologist working on coral reef protection off Zanzibar - the East African island of slaves, sultans and spices that for centuries has signified both the exotic and the malevolent. Soon he meets Miranda Powers, an American who works in the US embassy in nearby Dar-es-Salaam. Nick and Miranda find themselves embroiled in a terrorist conspiracy, one with which CIA veteran Jack Queller has an ancient connection. In Zanzibar, the prize-winning author Giles Foden draws on current events in order to create a contemporary historical novel of dazzling virtuosity. Both an investigation of the idea of paradise and a powerfully dramatic political thriller, it features Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda organisation long before 'September 11' made them notorious. Zanzibar builds on the achievement of The Last King of Scotland and Ladysmith. It couples Giles Foden's unique feel for history with his gifts for satire and description, in a story which takes us from the cradle of mankind to the emergent new world order.
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The legendary explorer of Titanic and Lusitania reveals the secret military missions behind his famous exploits and unveils a major new discovery on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Titanic find. Best known for finding the wreck of the Titanic, celebrated adventurer Robert Ballard has a lifetime of stories about exploring the ocean depths. From discovering new extremophile life-forms thriving at 750 DegreesF hydrothermal vents in 1977 to finding famous shipwrecks including the Bismarck and PT 109, Ballard has made history. Now the captain of E/V Nautilus, a state-of-the-art scientific exploration vessel rigged for research in oceanography, geology, biology, and archaeology, he leads young scientists as they map the ocean floor, collect artifacts from ancient shipwrecks, and relay live-time adventures from remote-controlled submersibles to reveal amazing sea life. Now, for the first time, Robert Ballard gets personal, telling the inside stories of his adventures and challenges as a midwestern kid with dyslexia who became an internationally renowned ocean explorer. Here is the definitive story of the danger and discovery, conflict and triumph that make up his remarkable life.
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Infused with a sense of adventure and zeal for discovery, "Seafaring Scientist" recounts the achievements of a giant in the field of marine biology. Alfred Goldsborough Mayor (1868-1922), a Harvard-trained marine biologist and close associate of Alexander Agassiz, founded and directed on behalf of the Carnegie Institution the first tropical marine biological laboratory in the Western hemisphere. Located on Loggerhead Key in the Gulf of Mexico, the Tortugas Laboratory attracted some of America's most brilliant scientists. Mayor himself achieved international prominence in the field of biology for his authoritative work on jellyfishes and coral reefs in his three-volume opus, "Medusae of the World". Stephens and Calder fill the gaps in the historical record about Mayor with this first book-length account of his life and work. They detail Mayor's passion for biology, association with Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology, and rise to international prominence in the scientific community. "Seafaring Scientist" describes Mayor's determination to develop the Tortugas Laboratory despite daunting operational problems related to the remoteness of the site and its vulnerability to hurricanes.
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A biography of the scientist known as the "Shark Lady," reveals how she turned a childhood passion into her life's work, devoting herself to studying sharks and educating the public on the graceful, clever sea creatures.

A picture book biography tells the story of Sylvia Earle's growing passion for the wonders of the sea and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world.

"From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she took through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyond to find peace after her fiancé suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand."--Amazon.com

Follows a day in the life of marine biologist Dr. Arthur Humes, who has discovered new ocean animals in Earth's major bodies of water.