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Isles of Amnesia by Mark J. Rauzon
epub |eng | | Author:Mark J. Rauzon

6 JOHNSTON ATOLL AS THE GOOD SHIP SS MIDWAY approached Johnston Atoll, I could see a large refinery with three tall smokestacks venting the exhaust of chemical weapons that were ...
( Category: Ecology March 20,2020 )
Bringing Whales Ashore by Arch Jakobina K
epub |eng | 2018-03-18 | Author:Arch, Jakobina K.

EXPLAINING WHALES: DESCRIPTIONS OF WHALERS AND THEIR PREY Judging from the number of texts describing whaling groups that still exist today, many people were just as curious about the whaling ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture March 19,2020 )
Shell Life on the Seashore by Philip Street
epub |eng | 2019-03-18 | Author:Philip Street [Philip Street]

Slightly smaller than the queen scallop, the variegated scallop (Mimachlamys varia) is distinguished by having unequal ears, while the fourth species, the humpback scallop (Talochlamys pusio), is not likely to ...
( Category: Seashells March 19,2020 )
The Curious Life of Krill by Stephen Nicol
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Stephen Nicol

© Stephen Nicol 2018 Stephen NicolThe Curious Life of Krillhttps://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-854-1_6 Eating Krill Stephen Nicol I believe, then, that the cod fishery, the herring fishery, the pilchard fishery, the mackerel fishery, ...
( Category: Marine Life March 18,2020 )
The People of the Sea by David Thomson
epub |eng | 1954-03-15 | Author:David Thomson [David Thomson]

CHAPTER SIX Some of the priests of Ireland, in the early days, escaped from the world as they knew it by sailing in curraghs to the North, and many of ...
( Category: Marine Life March 16,2020 )
Hot Carbon by John F. Marra
epub |eng | 2019-06-24 | Author:John F. Marra

I will return later to the subject of carbon-14 dating, involving much older dates than the Shroud of Turin, Ötzi, or the Bronze Age. To get a perspective on these ...
( Category: Oceanography March 16,2020 )
Hear Where We Are by Michael Stocker
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Stocker

Michael StockerHear Where We Are2013Sound, Ecology, and Sense of Place10.1007/978-1-4614-7285-8_4© Michael Stocker 2013 4. Sound Menagerie: Other Animals’ Sound Perception Michael Stocker1 (1)Lagunitas, CA, USA Abstract Given the superlative range ...
( Category: Animal Behavior & Communication March 14,2020 )
The Whale Warriors by Peter Heller
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:Peter Heller

We were now in a land of ice. Where the Japanese were, where we moved, depended much on what the ice would allow. After breakfast, just at 0900, we heard ...
( Category: Marine Life March 14,2020 )
Deep Blue Home by Julia Whitty
epub |eng | 2018-11-10 | Author:Julia Whitty

I have often seen them emerge from a wave, fly across the trough and enter the next wave without apparent change in their method of propulsion. Again I have seen ...
( Category: Oceanography March 12,2020 )
The Lark Ascending by Richard King
epub |eng | 2019-03-10 | Author:Richard King [Richard King]

Eno felt confident that despite the low profile New Music experienced as an abstruse or academic genre, he knew of enough people working in the field whose output was engaging ...
( Category: Oceans & Seas March 11,2020 )
Mortal Sea : Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail (9780674070462) by Bolster W. Jeffrey
epub |eng | | Author:Bolster, W. Jeffrey [Bolster, W. Jeffrey]

CLOSE TIME FOR MACKEREL? Common wisdom during the nineteenth century was that mackerel’s abundance “varied greatly from year to year.” Sometimes, as one expert put it, “their numbers have been ...
( Category: Fisheries & Aquaculture March 9,2020 )
Coastal Engineering: Processes, Theory and Design Practice by Fleming Christopher
epub | | 2009-03-22 | Author:Fleming, Christopher [Fleming, Christopher]

A related concept that is sometimes used is the degree of security, defined as the probability of a given condition not being exceeded over a fixed period. (This is of ...
( Category: Oceanography March 9,2020 )
Mysterious Ocean by Peter Townsend Harris
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Townsend Harris

At the time of the glacial maximum in the southern hemisphere, the Antarctic ice sheet advanced across much of the continental shelf. In South America, glaciers from the Andes extended ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 9,2020 )
The Breath of a Whale by Leigh Calvez
epub |eng | 2019-02-25 | Author:Leigh Calvez

* * * It was midwinter in Puget Sound when a small black dorsal fin broke the surface. The event went unnoticed. Surrounded by unfamiliar waters, a young orca continued ...
( Category: Marine Life March 9,2020 )
Texas Seashells by Tunnell John W.; Barrera Noe C.; Moretzsohn Fabio
epub |eng | 2014-03-08 | Author:Tunnell, John W.; Barrera, Noe C.; Moretzsohn, Fabio [Tunnell Jr., John W.]

Siphonaria pectinata (Linnaeus, 1758) Striped False Limpet Distribution: Florida, Texas; Mexico; Caribbean. Size: 27 mm (1 in). Description: Color of numerous closely spaced white ridges, separated by many crowded brownish ...
( Category: Marine Biology March 9,2020 )

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