Given the importance of the ocean in human history and in regulating climate change, guaranteeing food security, providing energy resources, and enabling worldwide commerce, it is astounding that we still know so little about it. This is due primarily to the lack of a long-term, large-scale national commitment to ocean exploration. The ocean and its depths need to be systematically explored to serve the interests of the nation and humankind. In that vein, its time to plunge deeply into this months readings, cold off the press and dripping with new learning. EASY 1 - Final Frontiers: The Deep Sea 2 - The Silent World (Jacques Cousteau film, 1956) 3 - Oceanography and Women: Early Challenges MEDIUM 4 - The Report of Ocean Exploration 2020: A National Forum 5 - Ocean (De)oxygenation across the Last Deglaciation: Insights for the Future 6 - Historical and Future Trends in Ocean Climate and Biogeochemistry 7 - Geotraces: Changing the Way We Explore Ocean Chemistry HARD 8 - Deep-Sea Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable 9 - The Island Rule and Deep-Sea Gastropods - Re-Examining the Evidence 10 - Pelagic-Benthic Coupling, Food Banks, and Climate Change on the West Antarctic Peninsula Shelf In addition, I highly recommend the science journal Oceanography, from which a lot of these papers have been mined - I only went back as far as 2012 but feel free to dig up other interesting articles from the back-catalogue if youre in the mood! tos.org/oceanography/issues/archive.html
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 13:22:14 +0000
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