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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.

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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In 1948, just weeks before his best friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts died, John Steinbeck wrote of Ricketts process of discovery, noting that "a young, inquisitive, and original man might one morning find a fissure in the traditional technique of thinking. Through this fissure he might look out and find a new external world about him." A Tidal Odyssey a conversation about that "young, inquisitive, and original man" who found "a new external world about him" and so captivated the imagination of scientists and lay readers alike as he transformed our understanding of the seashore. This is a book about that remarkable man and his pathbreaking book about marine life on the Pacific Coast of North America. With his friend Jack Calvin, Ricketts authored his magnum opus, Between Pacific Tides (1939), a guide to the seashore invertebrates in one of the most prolific life zones in the world. He and Calvin describe the key field characteristics of the species, and then place them in their ecological context, by habitat, in a natural history-based narrative. At a time when almost all studies of life in the intertidal zones were taxonomic, Ricketts and Calvin revolutionized the field and helped to lay the groundwork for studies of the impact of environmental change on the natural world. By happenstance, Ed Ricketts is best known as a character in John Steinbeck's fiction. But the real man is obscured by Steinbeck's authorial license. Steinbeck's Doc is the quirky young man who reads Li Po and drinks beer milkshakes. He was also a serious marine biologist who conducted pioneering studies of life in the intertidal zones. He was a true renaissance man -- conversant in music and philosophy, poetry and mythology. Friendly with such notables as mythologist Joseph Campbell, experimental composer John Cage, and novelist Henry Miller, as well as with Steinbeck and many of the most eminent biologists of his time, he was a man for all seasons. This, then, is a book for readers who are interested in the world of Ed Ricketts as well as marine biology, intertidal ecology, and the manner in which ecological studies underpin our understanding of the impact of environmental change on the well being of our planet.
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In 1948, just weeks before his best friend, marine biologist Ed Ricketts died, John Steinbeck wrote of Ricketts process of discovery, noting that "a young, inquisitive, and original man might one morning find a fissure in the traditional technique of thinking. Through this fissure he might look out and find a new external world about him." A Tidal Odyssey a conversation about that "young, inquisitive, and original man" who found "a new external world about him" and so captivated the imagination of scientists and lay readers alike as he transformed our understanding of the seashore. This is a book about that remarkable man and his pathbreaking book about marine life on the Pacific Coast of North America. With his friend Jack Calvin, Ricketts authored his magnum opus, Between Pacific Tides (1939), a guide to the seashore invertebrates in one of the most prolific life zones in the world. He and Calvin describe the key field characteristics of the species, and then place them in their ecological context, by habitat, in a natural history-based narrative. At a time when almost all studies of life in the intertidal zones were taxonomic, Ricketts and Calvin revolutionized the field and helped to lay the groundwork for studies of the impact of environmental change on the natural world. By happenstance, Ed Ricketts is best known as a character in John Steinbeck's fiction. But the real man is obscured by Steinbeck's authorial license. Steinbeck's Doc is the quirky young man who reads Li Po and drinks beer milkshakes. He was also a serious marine biologist who conducted pioneering studies of life in the intertidal zones. He was a true renaissance man -- conversant in music and philosophy, poetry and mythology. Friendly with such notables as mythologist Joseph Campbell, experimental composer John Cage, and novelist Henry Miller, as well as with Steinbeck and many of the most eminent biologists of his time, he was a man for all seasons. This, then, is a book for readers who are interested in the world of Ed Ricketts as well as marine biology, intertidal ecology, and the manner in which ecological studies underpin our understanding of the impact of environmental change on the well being of our planet.
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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

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."

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.

Weaving together natural history and biography, A Life Among Whales is a fascinating exploration of whale biologist and MacArthur fellowship winner, Dr. Roger Payne. For four decades, Payne has advanced the boundaries of science and activism - beginning with his pioneering work on whale songs in the 1970's, to his study of ocean pollution today. With beautiful and haunting imagery, the film forces us to question our stewardship of Earth and our coexistence of some of its most intriguing creatures.

• Junge Begeisterung für Leben und Literatur
• Rachel Carson wächst in einer ländlichen, aber industriell bedrängten Gegend auf, freut sich unter Anleitung der Mutter an der Natur und macht erste kindliche Schreibversuche
• Mit dem "Fortschritt" gehen oder sich der Natur zuwenden?
• Im Abseits
• Eine junge Schriftstellerin
• Schritte zur Horizonterweiterung
• Schriftstellerin oder Wissenschaftlerin?
• Rachel Carson beginnt ein College-Studium mit der festen Absicht, Schriftstelerin zu werden : immer mehr wird sie aber von der Biologie gefesselt, und sie glaubt, sie müsse sich für das eine oder das andere entscheiden
• Ein Ziel vor Augen
• Erste Gehversuche als erwachsene Schriftstellerin
• Leben auf dem Campus
• Ein Gefühl der Spaltung
• Trotz Hindernis erfolgreicher Abschluss
• Von der Hochschule zum Staatsdienst
• Rachel Carson absolviert ein Master-Studium und muss auf ein Doktorat aus finanziellen Gründen verzichten : sie findet ihr Auskommen im Staatsdienst, in dem Fische zu ihrem Thema werden, und betätigt sich nebenbei journalistisch
• Ein Traum geht in Erfüllung
• Vom Terminalnerv bei Reptilien zur Vorniere bei Fischen
• Knapp über Wasser
• Wer kennt das Meer?
• Intensiviertes Schreiben und marginal verbesserte Anstellung
• "Unter dem Meerwind"
• Aufgrund eines erfolgreichen Magazinartikels kommt Rachel Carson dazu, ein Buch zu schreiben, in dem sie das Leben von Tieren im und am Meer aus deren Perspektive schildert : es erscheint aber im falschen Moment
• Von "Unter dem Wasser" zu "Unter dem Meerwind"
• Silverbar, das Sanderlingweibchen
• Scomber, die Makrele
• Anguilla, das Aalweibchen
• Gefangen in einer freudvollen Arbeit
• Rachel Carson verfasst während des Krieges Broschüren zu Nahrungsmitteln aus dem Meer und nach ihm solche über Naturschutzgebiete : sie tut dies mit Engagement, sehnt sich aber trotzdem danach, den Staatsdienst verlassen zu können
• Kriegswirren und Nahrung aus dem Meer
• Weiter oben
• Freude und Verdruss
• "Conservation in Action"
• Ein Ort zum Bleiben
• Höhen und Tiefen
• "Geheimnisse des Meeres"
• Rachel Carson hat längst gemerkt, dass sich Wissenschaft und Poesie kombinieren lassen und demonstriert dies mit einem zweiten Buch, in dem sie das Meer als physisches Gebilde und als Lebensraum schildert : es wird ein Bestseller und macht sie finanziell unabhängig
• Ein neuer Anlauf
• Ungewöhnliche Exkursionen
• Ereignisreicher Weg zum Erfolg

• "Die Jahreszeiten"
• "Die Geburt einer Insel"
• Begeisterung, daneben ein paar Nörgeleien
• Erfüllung eines Traumes, aber mit Trübungen
• "Am Saum der Gezeiten"
• Rachel Carson baut ein Ferienhaus an der von ihr heiß geliebten Küste von Maine, lernt die Freundin ihres Lebens kennen und schreibt ein weiteres erfolgreiches Buch, in dem sie die Lebensformen und -gemeinschaften in drei verschiedenen Küstentypen darstellt
• Frei!
• Ein Ferienhaus und eine Freundin
• Auf dem Weg zum erneuten Erfolg
• Die Faszination des Küstenlebens
• Weitere Projekte
• Rettung tut Not, aber manchmal kommt sie zu spät
• Aufbruch zum dritten Weltkrieg
• Mit während des Krieges entwickelten Giftstoffen wird ein Krieg gegen missliebige Insekten geplant und in Gang gesetzt : Berichte über Wildtierschäden beunruhigen Rachel Carson, aber sie legt das Thema zunächst auf die Seite, wird aber Jahre später von einem Gerichtsfall aufgerüttelt
• Ein Wundermittel darf nicht brach liegen
• Vernichtungsfeldzüge aus der Luft
• Ein Fall für ein unwilliges Gericht
• Die Beunruhigung wird zu einer nationalen Angelegenheit
• "Der stumme Frühling"
• Rachel Carson will einen Artikel zur Pestizidproblematik schreiben, findet sich aber in einem vierjährigen Buchprojekt wieder, in dem sie sorgfältig alle Fakten über negative Auswirkungen auf Pflanzen, Tiere und Menschen sammelt : trotz Krankheiten bringt sie es zu einem Abschluss
• Von den Verirrungen der Zivilisation
• Arbeit mit Netzwerkbildung, Unterbruch und Geheimhaltung
• Erschüttertes Selbstverständnis
• Die Überwindung von Widrigkeiten aller Art
• Im Vorfeld der Publikation
• Hochmut kommt vor dem Fall
• Sprühprogramme und ihre Folgen
• Angriff auf die "innere Ökologie"
• Von (der äußeren) Ökologie müsste man etwas verstehen
• Sturmböen
• "Der stumme Frühling" von Rachel Carson löst eine heftige Debatte zwischen Befürwortern und Gegnern der breiten Anwendung von Giftstoffen aus : die extremen Reaktionen gipfeln in höchstem Lob einerseits und infamen Verunglimpfungen andererseits
• Ein lärmiger Sommer
• Die chemische Industrie befürchtet ein Davonschwimmen ihrer Felle
• Unterschiedliche Reaktionen im politischen System
• Die abhängige und die unabhängige Wissenschaft
• Die Stimmung in den Medien
• Über und unter der Gürtellinie
• Ein leidvoller Abschied mit freudigen Tupfern
• Rachel Carson leidet an Krebs in fortgeschrittenem Stadium, hat aber trotzdem noch ein paar öffentliche Auftritte : sie sinnt über den Tod nach und findet Trost in der Betrachtung des Lebens von Wanderfaltern : sie möchte auch noch weitere Bücher schreiben, aber dieser Wunsch bleibt unerfüllt
• Mit Momenten des Trostes dem Verfall ausgeliefert
• Nach Möglichkeit immer noch aktiv
• Vorkehrungen, Abschlüsse und ein weiterer Chemie-Zwischenfall
• Dem weiteren Siechtum entronnen
• Epilog
• Angaben zu den Quellen und Danksagung
• Literatur.

• Tuesday, July 8: what is a shark
• Wednesday, July 9: Chatham really loves its sharks!
• Monday, August 25: more than one way to tag a shark
• Later that same day: sharks by the numbers
• Friday, September 26-Sunday, September 28: the Atlantic White shark conservancy and the Gills Club
• Tuesday, January 6: be shark smart!

"The Great White Shark Scientist is the latest ocean adventure from the venerable team of Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen. In it, they follow Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, as he strives to better understand the habits and habitats of Great Whites in order to save this amazing, if maligned, creature of the deep."-- Source other than Library of Congress.

Death at SeaWorld centres on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity. Following the story of marine biologist and animal advocate at the Humane Society of the US, Naomi Rose, Kirby tells the gripping story of the two-decade fight against PR-savvy SeaWorld, which came to a head with the tragic death of trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010. Kirby puts that horrific animal-on-human attack in context. Brancheau's death was the most publicized among several brutal attacks that have occurred at Sea World and other marine mammal theme parks. Death at SeaWorld introduces real people taking part in this debate, from former trainers turned animal rights activists to the men and women that champion SeaWorld and the captivity of whales. In section two the orcas act out. And as the story progresses and orca attacks on trainers become increasingly violent, the warnings of Naomi Rose and other scientists fall on deaf ears, only to be realized with the death of Dawn Brancheau. Finally he covers the media backlash, the eyewitnesses who come forward to challenge SeaWorld's glossy image, and the groundbreaking OSHA case that challenges the very idea of keeping killer whales in captivity and may spell the end of having trainers in the water with the ocean's top predators.
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• Miss Carson's Book
• Bright as the Mid-day Sun
• Biologizing
• The English Connection and the Ocean Deep
• This Beautiful and Sublime World
• Author Triumphant
• Dorothy
• The Enduring Sea
• Earth on Fire
• Collateral Damage
• High Tides and Low.

• Miss Carson's book
• Bright as the mid-day sun
• Biologizing
• The English connection and the ocean deep
• This beautiful and sublime world
• Author triumphant
• Dorothy
• The enduring sea
• Earth on fire
• Collateral damage
• High tides and low.

Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement, began work on her seminal book Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral damage to fish, birds, and other wildlife. Silent Spring was a chilling indictment of DDT and its effects, and it shocked the public and forced the government to take action despite a withering attack on Carson from the chemicals industry. The book awakened the world to the heedless contamination of the environment and eventually led to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency and to the banning of DDT and a host of related pesticides.