Editorial Type:
Article Category: Research Article
| Online Publication Date: 05 Nov 2007
Getting Oceanography Done
Getting Oceanography Done
Page Range: 36 – 43
This special section of Earth Sciences History presents four papers from the Maury II Conference on the History of the Marine Sciences, held at Woods Hole, Massachusetts in June 1999. The common theme of the papers is patronage: how scientists obtained moral, financial, and logistical support for oceanographic work from the late 19th to the mid 20th century. Oceanography is an expensive and logistically difficult science. How do scientists manage to get oceanography done?
Day, Deborah, Bergen West: Or how four Scandinavian Geophysicists found a Home in the New World, Historisch-Meereskundliches Jahrbuch, 1999, 6:69-82.
Mills, Eric, The History of Oceanography: Introduction, Earth Sciences History, 1993, 12:1.
Mills, Eric, The Historian of Science and Oceanography after Twenty Years, Earth Sciences History, 1993, 12:5-18.
Oreskes, Naomi, and Ronald Rainger, Science and Security before the Atomic Bomb: The Loyalty Case of Harald U. Sverdrup, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 2000, 31B:309-369.
Rozwadowski, Helen M., Marine Science in the Age of Internationalism, Historisch-Meereskundliches Jahrbuch, 1999, 6:83-105.
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