Ocean Pulse: A Critical Diagnosis / Edition 1

by John T. Tanacredi, Sylvia A. Earle, John Loret

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306458002
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	05/31/1998
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Aquaculture of the World Oceans-Is the Future at Our Doorstep? Fish as a Foodstuff-a Catch 22: IS Aquaculture a Solution? R.B. Abel. Underwater Technology Applications to Ocean Exploration: The Impact of Armed Forces on the Development of Marine Technology: A Look Back-A Look Ahead; D.R. Chandler. Precise Target Strength Pattern Measurement in an Indoor Tank; K. Sawada, et al. Advances in the Practical Application of underwater Technology: A Comparison of the Lost Hydrogen Bomb 91966) and TWA Flight 800 (1996) Search and Recovery Operations and Technologies; W.C. Phoel. Human Diving Technology: From Ocean Exploitation to Marine Science; M. Okamoto. New Biotechnological Applications to Fisheries' Aquaculture: The Current Status of Brain-Pituitary-Gonad Axis Physiology in Fishes and its Manipulation During Controlled Reproduction; M.P. Schreibman, L. Magliulo-Cepriano. Underwater Archaeological Applications and Advances: Marine Archaeology on the White Sea; N.A. Demidenko, I.V. Divakov. Conclusion: Ocean Beats Out Space, Four to One!; G.C. Ray. 9 Additional Articles. Index.

Editorial Reviews

As a collaboration of The Explorers Club and the US National Park Service, these 18 presentations intended for the canceled Ocean Pulse I International Conference (Istanbul) are organized into five sections: aquaculture of the world oceans (is the future at our doorstep?), underwater technology applications to ocean exploration, advances in practical applications of underwater technology, new biotechnological applications to fisheries' aquaculture, and underwater archeological applications/advances. The concluding title proclaims the results of a 1996 US survey on exploration funding priorities: the "ocean beats out space, four to one!" Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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