Ocean Pulse
A Critical Diagnosis
Published on 31. May 1998
Book
Hardback
XIV, 202 pages
978-0-306-45800-2 (ISBN)
Description
There are many conferences, workshops and meetings annually around the world, each emphasizing a specialty area for scientific exploration and research. Yet in very few instances, if at all, do the multidisciplinary aspects of science get presented so one may see the diversity of dependencies these seemingly disparate disciplines actually have. The Explorers Club and the U. S. National Park Service collaborated to make a first attempt at what will continue to be an "ocean pulse'" effort; conferences combining the aquaculture sciences; the search for underwater antiquities and the marinelbio-technologies utilized to explore these areas. The purpose has been to bring together not just academicians to talk about their finding in the field or the laboratory, but to provide a forum for the practical applications of "technology" to expanding our worlds fisheries as well as to continue to explore our world's oceans; the earth's truly last frontier. After everything is said and done, we still know precious little about our ocean environments. Their influences on our lives are monumental and yet we continue to be very parochial and conservative in our dedication to exploring their depths and resources. We feel confident that this initial effort by our respective groups to awaken a realization in the public and private sectors of the need for a cross-disciplinary approach to scientific research in the marine environment, is a necessity as we approach the 21 st century. Kevin C.
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Edition
1998 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Springer Science+Business Media
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
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XIV, 202 p.
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-306-45800-2 (9780306458002)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4899-0136-1
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Persons
Dr John T. Tanacredi
is Chief, Division of Natural Resources for the National Park Service at Gateway National Recreation Area. He is a Research Associate in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History and at the Aquarium for Wildlife Conservation. He holds Adjunct Full Professor of Environmental Sciences at Hofstra University and Polytechnic University.
Content
Overview.- I: Aquaculture of the World Oceans: Is the Future at Our Doorstep?.- 1. Fish as a Foodstuff-a Catch 22: Is Aquaculture a Solution?.- 2. The Business of Aquaculture in the Mediterranean.- 3. Aquaculture in the Sea.- 4. Shellfishing in an Urban National Wildlife Refuge: Contamination, Conflicts, Consensus.- II: Underwater Technology Applications to Ocean Exploration.- 5. The Impact of Armed Forces on the Development of Marine Technology: A Look Back-A Look Ahead.- 6. Precise Target Strength Pattern Measurement in an Indoor Tank.- 7. Use of Advanced Mixed-Gas Diving Technology to Explore the Coral Reef "Twilight Zone".- III: Advances in the Practical Application of Underwater Technology.- 8. A Comparison of the Lost Hydrogen Bomb (1966) and TWA Flight 800 (1996) Search and Recovery Operations and Technologies.- 9. Human Diving Technology: From Ocean Exploitation to Marine Science.- IV: New Biotechnological Applications to Fisheries' Aquaculture.- 10. The Current Status of Brain-Pituitary-Gonad Axis Physiology in Fishes and Its Manipulation during Controlled Reproduction.- 11. Rearing of Larval Solea vulgaris (Quensel, 1806) in Lake Quarun, Egypt.- 12. Fisheries Acoustics: Contribution and Challenge.- 13. Effects of Exogenous Hormone Injection on Growth and Maturation of Mugil cephalus Oocytes in Captivity.- V: Underwater Archaeological Applications and Advances.- 14. Marine Archaeology on the White Sea.- 15. Maritime Archaeology at Dry Tortugas National Park: Research Domains, Framework, and Perpectives.- 16. From Mountain Top to Ocean Bottom: A Comprehensive Approach to Archaeological Research.- 17. History of the Underwater Archaeology in the Kimmerian Bosphorus on the Black Sea.- VI: Conclusion.- 18. Ocean Beats Out Space, Four to One!.- AuthorBiographies.