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• First glimpse
• Spectral visions
• Sinking lower
• Upside down
• Blunderbuss
• Falling
• The deepest dives
• Underwriting
• Surfacing
• Summer
• Invisibilities
• Ink spills everywhere
• Silence and solitude
• Leaving the body behind
• Recent sighting.

"A gorgeous account of William Beebe's 1934 Bathysphere expedition, the first-ever deep-sea voyage to the otherworldly environment 3,024 feet below sea level"-- Provided by publisher.
Summer, 1930. Aboard a ship floating near the Atlantic island of Nonsuch, marine biologist Gloria Hollister sat with a telephone receiver pressed to her ear. The phone line was attached to a steel cable that plunged 3,000 feet into the sea. There, suspended by the cable, dangled a four-and-a-half-foot steel ball called the bathysphere. Crumpled inside, gazing through three-inch quartz windows at the undersea world, was Hollister's colleague William Beebe. He called up to her, describing previously unseen creatures, explosions of bioluminescence, and strange effects of light and color. In writing about this first encounter with the unknown depths, Fox dramatizes new visions of our planetary home-- and shares tales of the colorful characters who surrounded, supported, and participated in the dives: groundbreaking scientists, gallivanting adventurers, and eugenicist billionaires. -- adapted from jacket

• Introduction
• Magnus's monsters
• Aquanauts
• Poseidon's lair
• What happens in Hades...
• ...stays in Hades
• "This is the mother of all shipwrecks"
• The end of the beginning
• You are now entering the Twilight Zone
• Selling the abyss
• Kama'ehuakanaloa
• Epilogue : the deep future.

"From New York Times bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror, an unknown realm that evoked a singular, compelling question: What's down there? Unable to answer this for centuries, people believed the deep was a sinister realm of fiendish creatures and deadly peril. But now, cutting-edge technologies allow scientists and explorers to dive miles beneath the surface, and we are beginning to understand this strange and exotic underworld: A place of soaring mountains, smoldering volcanoes, and valleys 7,000 feet deeper than Everest is high, where tectonic plates collide and separate, and extraordinary life forms operate under different rules. Far from a dark void, the deep is a vibrant realm that's home to pink gelatinous predators and shimmering creatures a hundred feet long and ancient animals with glass skeletons and sharks that live for half a millennium-among countless other marvels. Susan Casey is our premiere chronicler of the aquatic world. For The Underworld she traversed the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet, interviewing the marine geologists, marine biologists, and oceanographers who are searching for knowledge in this vast unseen realm. She takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of deep-sea exploration, from the myths and legends of the ancient world to storied shipwrecks we can now reach on the bottom, to the first intrepid bathysphere pilots, to the scientists who are just beginning to understand the mind-blowing complexity and ecological importance of the quadrillions of creatures who live in realms long thought to be devoid of life. Throughout this journey, she learned how vital the deep is to the future of the planet, and how urgent it is that we understand it in a time of increasing threats from climate change, industrial fishing, pollution, and the mining companies that are also exploring its depths. The Underworld is Susan Casey's most beautiful and thrilling book yet, a gorgeous evocation of the natural world and a powerful call to arms"-- Provided by publisher.

Research engineer and oceanographer WIllard Bascom and probably his wife Rhoda and daughter Anitra on the patio of their Pacific Grove home, likely circa 1950. A little girl plays with a teddy bear, and then a woman in a swim suit interacts with her. Then Willard Bascom appears, seated on a low wall, and picks up the girl. This may have been filmed by Hopkins Marine Station faculty member Rolf Bolin

"The dramatic and action-packed story of the last mysterious place on earth--the world's seafloor--and the deep-sea divers, ocean mappers, marine biologists, entrepreneurs, and adventurers involved in the historic push to chart it, as well as the opportunities, challenges, and perils this exploration holds now and for the future"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Platforms and Observational Programs
• pH
• Partial Pressure of Carbon Dioxide (pCO2)
• Total Alkalinity
• Dissolved Inorganic Carbon (DIC)
• Concluding Remarks
• Acronyms

"Technology has always played a major role in oceanography; new advances have changed how we observe the ocean. Among the many interests driving marine carbon observations, ocean acidification and marine carbon dioxide removal are at the forefront of research requiring better sensing options. There has been a recent explosion of interest in adapting existing technologies and developing new methods to provide much greater coverage of monitoring and better constraining the marine carbon cycle. As new players come to the field from various industries and backgrounds, we often field questions about why we don't yet have commercially available in situ sensors for more biogeochemical parameters. There are many challenges to working in marine environments regardless of what we are trying to measure, and producing quality data on the time and space scales required for carbon cycle work is a huge task. Many clever people have faced these challenges with fervor and creativity, and we look forward to exciting new developments in this field. This primer provides some frame of reference for the options that are presently available and provides an idea of what is coming on the horizon."-- Provided by publisher

• Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Prologue: The Last Crusade;
• 1. God's Wandering Children;
• 2. Becoming a Useful Man;
• 3. Citizen of Virginia;
• 4. Lessons for a Lifetime;
• 5. The Siren's Song;
• 6. The Ever-Changing Sea of Life;
• 7. The Exploring Expedition Fiasco;
• 8. Survival Ashore;
• 9. In Washington in a Scientific Post;
• 10. The Navy and the Observatory;
• 11. A Most Uncivil War;
• 12. Charting the Oceans and Finding Gold;
• 13. Grand Explorations and Manifest Destiny;
• 14. Gauging the Politics of Weather;
• 15. Some Fair Winds;
• 16. The Great Enterprise;
• 17. Shipwreck and Salvation.

• 18. Wise and Good Counsels in Bedlamvii
• 19. The Heady First Spring of War;
• 20. At War with the Cotton Kings;
• 21. The Confederate European Crusade;
• 22. Winning Hearts and Minds;
• 23. The Long Exile;
• 24. At Peace in the Ruins of War; Chapter Notes; Bibliography; Index.

"Matthew Fontaine Maury focused light on the ills of a clique-ridden Navy, charted sea lanes and bested Great Britain's admiralty in securing the fastest, safest routes to India and Australia. He helped with the laying of the transatlantic cable, forcefully advocated Southern rights, preached Manifest Destiny and revolutionized warfare in perfecting electronically detonated mines"-- Provided by publisher.

• Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Redhorse Blues; Exercises on a Tightrope; Memories of Flight; Blacking Out; Parking Sharks; Key Largo; Coney Island; Freddy; Hudson Bay; Iced Up; Seal Stew; Delude, Memory!

In MY WATERY SELF: AN AQUATIC MEMOIR, author/scientist Stephen Spotte traces a fascinating trail through a life that began in West Virgina coal camps, drifted through reckless bohemian times of countercultural indulgence in Beach Haven, New Jersey, and led to a career as a highly-respected marine biologist. Together, these stories form a view not just of one man's life, but that of a generation that often refused to take a direct path to the workplace, insisting instead on a winding unveiling of true self-realization, to achieve previously-unimagined outcomes. For Spotte, the key was water: His years of beach living led to a self-initiated study of literature and the sea. He eventually returned to college and received his training as a marine biologist, and discovered, through his singular voice, a wet and occasionally very weird perspective on the world. His writing is engrossing throughout, the stories he shares--such as his stint as curator of the New York Aquarium at Coney Island at the tail end of the hippie era--are compelling and thoroughly enjoyable as he elevates the people and situations he encounters to mythical levels, blending empirical observation with literary prose.

• Intro
• Preface
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Observational Background
• 1.2 Theoretical Background
• 1.3 Book Overview
• Part I Observations: Atmospheric Forcing and Ocean Response
• 2 Atmospheric Circulation
• 2.1 Monsoons and the ITCZ
• 2.1.1 General Properties
• 2.1.2 South Asian ITCZ
• 2.2 South-Asian Summer Monsoon
• 2.2.1 Precipitation and Orography
• 2.2.2 Monsoon Winds
• 2.2.3 SST and Ocean Processes
• 2.2.4 Non-orographic Rainfall
• 2.2.5 Summary
• 2.3 Interannual Variability
• 2.3.1 ENSO
• 2.3.2 IOD
• 2.4 Sub-annual Variability

• 2.4.1 Madden-Julian Oscillations
• 2.4.2 Quasi-biweekly Mode
• 2.4.3 Sub-weekly Oscillations
• 2.4.4 Diurnal Variability
• 3 Ocean Forcing and the Surface Mixed Layer
• 3.1 Ocean Forcing
• 3.1.1 Definitions
• 3.1.2 Climatological Fluxes
• 3.2 Surface Mixed Layer
• 3.2.1 Mixed-layer Processes
• 3.2.2 Mixed-layer Models
• 3.2.3 Basin-wide Properties
• 3.2.4 Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal
• 4 Ocean Circulations
• 4.1 Thermohaline Structure
• 4.1.1 Overview
• 4.1.2 Bottom Layer
• 4.1.3 Deep Layer
• 4.1.4 Intermediate Layer
• 4.1.5 Upper Layer

• 4.2 Climatological Surface Currents and Sea Level
• 4.2.1 Currents
• 4.2.2 Sea Level and Geostrophic Velocity
• 4.3 Southern-Hemisphere Circulations
• 4.3.1 South Equatorial Thermocline Ridge
• 4.3.2 South Equatorial Current
• 4.3.3 South Equatorial Countercurrent
• 4.3.4 East Africa Coastal Current
• 4.4 Equatorial Region
• 4.4.1 Wyrtki Jets
• 4.4.2 Upwelling Events
• 4.4.3 Equatorial Undercurrents and Deeper Flows
• 4.4.4 Intraseasonal Oscillations
• 4.5 Sumatra/Java Coast
• 4.5.1 Mean Currents
• 4.5.2 Semiannual and Annual Cycles
• 4.5.3 Intraseasonal Variability

• 4.5.4 Dynamics
• 4.6 Andaman Sea
• 4.6.1 Background Properties
• 4.6.2 Annual Cycle
• 4.6.3 Intraseasonal Variability
• 4.6.4 Dynamics
• 4.7 Bay of Bengal
• 4.7.1 Interior Circulation
• 4.7.2 Intraseasonal Variability and Eddies
• 4.7.3 East India Coastal Current
• 4.7.4 Western-Boundary Gyres
• 4.7.5 Salt Balance
• 4.8 Monsoon Currents
• 4.8.1 Summer Monsoon Current
• 4.8.2 Winter Monsoon Current
• 4.8.3 Dynamics
• 4.9 Arabian Sea
• 4.9.1 Lakshadweep High and Low
• 4.9.2 West India Coastal Current
• 4.9.3 Pakistan Coastal Current
• 4.9.4 Interior Circulation

• 4.9.5 East Arabia Coastal Current
• 4.9.6 Somali Current
• 4.9.7 Salt Balance
• 4.10 Marginal Seas
• 4.10.1 Persian Gulf
• 4.10.2 Gulf of Oman
• 4.10.3 Red Sea
• 4.10.4 Gulf of Aden
• Part II Models
• 5 Ocean Models
• 5.1 Ocean General Circulation Models
• 5.1.1 Equations
• 5.1.2 Mixing
• 5.1.3 Boundary Conditions
• 5.1.4 Coordinate Systems
• 5.2 Linear, Continuously Stratified Model
• 5.2.1 Equations of Motion
• 5.2.2 Boundary Conditions
• 5.2.3 Vertical Normal Modes
• 5.2.4 Barotropic and Baroclinic Modes
• 5.2.5 Modal Equations
• 5.2.6 Convergence
• 5.3 Layer Models

The book is the first to focus on the physical oceanography of the North Indian Ocean (NIO), a special region of the global ocean that exhibits a distinct seasonality due to the impact of the South Asian Monsoon (SAM). It is written as a textbook about the NIO for graduate students, lecturers, and researchers in physical oceanography. It will also be useful for courses on the interior, coastal, and equatorial dynamics in any other ocean. It helps readers, particularly new entrants to the field, to gain a comprehensive understanding of tropical-ocean dynamics by: developing from first principles the equation set for the linear continuously stratified (LCS) model, which has long been used to study tropical oceans; and then obtaining solutions that explore different aspects of the dynamics. Part 1 of the book provides an overview of observed ocean circulations and forcing functions in the NIO that are linked to the SAM. Part 2 develops the equations of motion for the LCS model. Part 3 (Free Waves) and Part 4 (Forced Solutions) derive and discuss analytic solutions to the LCS model that illustrate basic processes in the interior (unbounded), coastal, and equatorial regions of the ocean. The last two chapters of Part 4 consider more complicated processes and phenomena that build upon the simpler solutions previously found: vertical propagation of coastal and equatorial waves, and the Indian Ocean's shallow overturning circulations. Each analytic solution is illustrated (and extended) by a suite of numerical LCS solutions presented as video clips, providing a powerful means for visualizing complex processes

• Machine generated contents note: pt. I SEA OF EDEN
• 1. Deep Time
• 2. Exploring the Sea
• 3. Onward and Downward
• 4. Blue Infinity
• 5. Diving with the Experts
• 6. To the Edge of Darkness
• 7. The Twilight Zone
• 8. Our Business Is Going Under
• 9. Ocean Everest
• pt. II PARADISE LOST
• 10. No Free Lunch
• 11. Critter Crisis
• 12. Poisoning the Sea
• 13. Beyond Flotsam and Jetsam
• 14. Troubled Waters
• 15. A Terrible Experiment
• pt. III SEA CHANGE
• 16. Ocean Care
• 17. Second Chance for Paradise.

• Contents: List of contributors
• Foreword / by Klaus Dodds
• Foreword / by Karen N. Scott
• Acknowledgement
• 1: Introduction / Nengye Liu, Cassandra M. Brooks and Tianbao Qin
• Part I: Antarctica
• 2: The principles of the convention on the conservation of Antarctic marine living resources: why its commission is not a regional fisheries management organisation / Anthony J. Press, Indi Hodgson-Johnston and Andrew J. Constable
• 3: Commission for the conservation of Antarctic marine living resources (CCAMLR): implementation of conservation of southern ocean marine living resources / Keith Reid
• 4: Geopolitical complexity at the bottom of the world: CCAMLR's ongoing challenge of adopting marine protected areas / Cassandra M. Brooks
• 5: Inclusive and evidence-based decision-making in CCAMLR: a basis for ensuring compliance? / Nils Vanstappen
• Part II: Arctic 6 governance of fisheries in the central Arctic Ocean: cooperative currents, foggy future / David L. VanderZwaag
• 7: Russia and arctic fisheries / Alexander Sergunin
• 8: Governing access rights to harvesting marine living resources: the case of the Svalbard archipelago 138 Sandra Cassotta and Rachel Tiller
• Part III: Future challenges and prospects
• 9: Frozen robots: autonomous underwater vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles in the antarctic: a new tool or a new challenge for sustainable ocean governance? / David Leary
• 10 bioprospecting in Antarctica: obligations and challenges / Ana Fl.via Barros-Platiau, Carina Costa de Oliveira, Gabriela G.B. Lima Moraes and Pierre Mazzega
• 11: The settlement of disputes concerning conservation of fish stocks in the arctic and antarctic high seas: towards comprehensive compulsory jurisdiction? / Valentin J. Schatz
• 12: The future of governing marine living resources in the polar regions / Nengye Liu and Cassandra M. Brooks
• Index

"Bringing together leading scholars from across a diverse range of disciplines, this unique book examines a key question: How can we best conserve marine living resources in the Polar regions, where climate change effects and human activities are particularly pressing? Part one of this timely book focuses on Antarctica, centring on the evolving work of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in managing the marine living resources of the Southern Ocean. Part two explores the multi-level governance regime in the Arctic, analysing the central Arctic Ocean fisheries agreement, the role of the Arctic Council and law and governance in Arctic states. Finally, part three considers some of the new challenges and opportunities, including new technology, bioprospecting and dispute settlement. Providing a comprehensive assessment of the governance regimes of marine living resources in the Polar regions, this book will be of great interest to academics, NGOs, international organizations and government officials, whilst also being a key resource for practitioners working in the fisheries industries"-- Provided by publisher

• Contents: Part I : Framing the issues: Climate change and our oceans and coasts
• 1. Oceans and coasts in the era of anthropogenic climate change / Jan McDonald, Jeffrey McGee and Richard Barnes
• 2. The impact of climate change on oceans : physical, chemical and biological responses / Alistair J Hobday and Richard J Matear
• Part II : International governance of climate change, oceans and coasts
• 3. Climate change, the anthropocene and ocean law : mapping the issues / David Freestone and Millicent McCreath
• 4. Sea-level rise and the law of the sea / Moritaka Hayashi
• 5. Adapting UNCLOS dispute settlement to address climate change / Natalie Klein
• 6. Climate change and high seas fisheries / Yoshinobu Takei
• 7. Climate change and the international maritime organization / Sophia Kopela
• 8. Climate change-related displacement of coastal and island peoples : human rights implications / Amy Maguire
• 9. Climate change, disaster law, and extreme ocean and coastal events / Anastasia Telesetsky
• 10. Oceans, climate change and non-state actors / Irini Papanicolopulu and Armando Rocha
• Part III : Regional and sectoral governance of climate change, oceans and coasts
• 11. Handling climate change for the East and South China Seas / Keyuan Zou and Lei Zhang
• 12. The southern ocean and changing environmental conditions : Antarctic treaty system / Julia Jabour and Marcus Haward
• 13. Climate change and the Arctic : adapting to threats and opportunities in Arctic marine waters / Elise Johansen and Tore Henriksen
• 14. International law and institutional responses to climate change and fisheries management in the Indian Ocean / Erika Techera
• 15. Governing Pacific fisheries under climate change / Jan McDonald and Shannon Maree Torrens
• 16. Integrated oceans management and climate change / Karen N Scott
• 17. Marine spatial planning and climate change : an example from Scotland / Anne-Michelle Slater and Alison MacDonald
• Part IV : Adapting and responding to climate impacts on oceans and coasts
• 18. Responding to ocean acidification beyond climate governance / Reuben Makomere and Jan McDonald
• 19. Ecosystem-based adaptation in coastal areas : lessons from selected case studies / Justine Bell-James
• 20. The governance of marine invasive alien species and climate change in China / Jiayu Bai and Jing Cheng
• 21. Shifting currents : climate change and maritime security in the Asia Pacific / Robin Warner and Stuart Kaye
• 22. Naval, national security and defence issues from climate change / Sam Bateman and Anthony Bergin
• 23. A global network of MPAS : an important tool in addressing climate change / Danielle Smith
• Part V : Innovative governance for marine-based climate mitigation
• 24. Marine geoengineering governance and the importance of compatibility with the law of the sea / Kerryn Brent
• 25 protecting antarctica's coastal blue carbon: a case for international cooperation / Brendan Gogarty, Narissa Bax, David KA Barnes, Chester Sands, Jeffrey McGee, Marcus Haward, Maria Lund Paulsen, Bernabé Moreno, Camille Moreau, Christoph Held and Rachel Downey
• 26. Postscript: governance for climate change, oceans and coasts in a post-Covid-19 world / Jan McDonald, Jeffrey McGee and Richard Barnes
• Index

"This thought-provoking Research Handbook offers a critical survey of the law and governance issues facing the world's oceans and coasts in this era of Anthropocentric climate change. It discusses the biophysical impacts that climate change is having upon our oceans and coasts, as well as the various ways that international, national and sub-national laws have sought to respond. With contributions from scientists and lawyers, this comprehensive Research Handbook provides cutting edge analysis of the marine governance responses to climate change and how this will need to adapt in a rapidly changing world. It reflects on the interaction of climate change with regional marine governance regimes and analyses the likely impacts on maritime and national security. Illustrating the up-to-date treatment of interactions between climate and oceans regimes, this incisive Research Handbook examines the possible adaptation options to address specific issues for our oceans and coasts. The Research Handbook on Climate Change, Oceans and Coasts will be a key resource for students, scholars and practitioners of climate change, water law and environmental law and policy, while also being of benefit to researchers in the cross-cutting fields of human rights and disaster law"-- Provided by publisher