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Informationen zum Autor Eric L. Mills is a professor emeritus in the Department of Oceanography at Dalhousie University and former director of the History of Science and Technology Program at the University of King’s College. He is the winner of the Jehuda Neumann Memorial Prize for the History of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography from the Royal Meteorological Society. Klappentext This new edition makes an excellent companion to Mills’s recent history of mathematical and physical oceanography, the multi-award-winning and widely acclaimed The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet. Zusammenfassung This new edition makes an excellent companion to Mills’s recent history of mathematical and physical oceanography, the multi-award-winning and widely acclaimed The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: The Development of Biological Oceanography PART 1 The Origin of Biological Oceanography in Germany and Scandinavia during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries "This Blood of the Sea": The Origin of Quantitative 9 Plankton Biology in Germany, 1870-1911The Control of Metabolism in the Sea: Karl Brandt, the Nitrogen Cycle, and the Origin of Brandt's HypothesisInternational Oceanography, the Kiel School, and the Fate of Brandt's Hypothesis"The Water Blooms": The Discovery of the Spring Bloom and Its ControlHydrography and the Control of Plankton Abundance: Solving the Problem of Plankton BloomsThe End of an Era: The Demise of the Kiel Schoo PART 2 Biological Oceanography in Britain and the United States, 1921-1960 Food from the Sea: The Origin of British Biological OceanographySurveying the Blue Pasture: Plankton Dynamics at Plymouth, 1921-1933Plankton Production and Its Control: The Marine Ecosystem at Plymouth, 1934-1958Appreciating Mathematics: The Origin of Plankton Modeling in the United States, 1934-1946Disciplined Thinking in Biological Oceanography: Plankton Dynamics, Physical Oceanography, and Riley's "Synthetic Method" Conclusion: The End of One Tale and the Beginning of Another References Index ...
