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In recent years, a catastrophic global bleaching event devastated many of the world's precious coral reefs. Working on the front lines of ruin, today's coral scientists are struggling to save these important coral reef ecosystems from the imminent threats of rapidly warming, acidifying, and polluted oceans. Coral Whisperers captures a critical moment in the history of coral reef science. Gleaning insights from over one hundred interviews with leading scientists and conservation managers, Irus Braverman documents a community caught in an existential crisis and alternating between despair and hope. In this important new book, corals emerge not only as signs and measures of environmental catastrophe, but also as catalysts for action.

Marine scientists --- Coral reef management. --- Coral bleaching

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The ocean conceals secrets, ancient, modern, and future. Nic Flemming's memoir recounts the life of a pioneer in ocean science. Each chapter describes a thread that structured his work: underwater cities, submerged Ice Age caverns dripping with stalactites, the limits to ocean exploitation, ocean climate change, prehistoric settlements on the continental shelf, ocean law, and safe scientific diving. Flemming is paralysed from the chest down and has used a wheelchair for the past 52 years; one chapter assesses how he has continued to work in rough conditions and at sea, visiting 60 countries since his accident.Flemming's early experience with the Royal Marines Special Boat Service provided the foundation for a scientific research career under water. Intrigued by a report of a sunken city seen from a helicopter, he set out to map the submerged Greek city at Apollonia, near Benghazi, in 1958-59, as a Cambridge undergraduate. Doctoral research on the cause of submergence and uplift of hundreds of coastal Mediterranean ruins was followed by adventures in now-submerged caves from the Ice Ages when the sea level was lower.In 1965, as industry awakened to the potential of seabed exploitation, Flemming journeyed around the world to assess marine technology and forecast future developments for UK industries. This led to participation in the UN Committee on the Law of the Sea and in the design of a Global Ocean Observing System.Flemming later turned to academic research around submerged stratified prehistoric settlements. Advances in seabed mapping now enable marine archaeologists to study and plot numerous sites in the context of the Ice Age terrestrial landscape.This is a multi-disciplinary adventure story that argues that different skills and fields can interact creatively with surprising results. It will be enjoyed by all those interested in the development of underwater archaeology, climate science, and ocean exploration.

Marine scientists --- Paraplegics --- Marine sciences. --- Flemming, N. C. --- People with paraplegia

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"In warm, shallow waters around the world, coral reefs teem with tens of thousands of marine species, including brightly colored and fancifully named fishes--damselffishes, angelfishes, dolphinfishes. Reefs rival rainforests in biodiversity and about a third of the world's marine fish species live part of their lives on coral reefs. In the 1960s, marine biologist Henry "Hank" Compton (1928-2005) of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's Rockport Marine Lab participated in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean research cruises on which some of these fishes were collected. A talented artist, Compton painted watercolors based on photographs of collected specimens. He allowed free rein to both his scientific judgment and artistic vision and dubbed this series "Fishes of the Rainbow" because of the tropical fishes' myriad colors and patterns. Along with taxonomic descriptions, Compton wrote imaginative narratives to accompany the paintings, humorous and quirky stories of the fishes in their light-filled, busy, colorful coral worlds. In this follow up to "Fire in the Sea," this book introduces art lovers and tropical fish enthusiasts to Compton's second series of paintings. Here, marine biologist David A. McKee provides context for Compton's work as well as an informative overview of the science of coral reef ecosystems."--Provided by publisher.

Coral reef fishes --- Marine biologists --- Marine artists --- Fishes in art. --- Artists --- Aquatic biologists --- Marine scientists --- Coral fishes --- Coral reef animals --- Reef fishes --- Compton, Henry, --- Compton, Hank,

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The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. It is the foundation for one of the most species-rich, productive, and widely distributed ecological communities in the world. Schiel and Foster's scholarly review and synthesis take the reader from Darwin's early observations to contemporary research, providing a historical perspective for the modern understanding of giant kelp evolution, biogeography, biology, and physiology. The authors furnish a comprehensive discussion of kelp species and forest ecology worldwide, with considerations of human uses and abuses, management and conservation, and the current and likely future impacts of global change. This volume promises to be the definitive treatise and reference on giant kelp and its forests for many years, and it will appeal to marine scientists and others who want a better appreciation and understanding of these wondrous forests of the sea.

Giant kelp. --- earth sciences. --- ecology and environment. --- ecology. --- giant kelp forests. --- giant kelp. --- kelp biology. --- kelp conservation. --- kelp ecology. --- kelp forest research. --- kelp. --- largest seaweed. --- life sciences. --- marine biology. --- marine conservation. --- marine ecology. --- marine ecosystems. --- marine environment. --- marine life. --- marine plants. --- marine science. --- marine scientists. --- ocean life. --- ocean plants. --- oceanography. --- science. --- scientists. --- sea life. --- sea plants. --- seaweed biology. --- seaweed research. --- seaweed. --- uses of kelp.

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This portrait of one of John Steinbeck's closest friends illuminates the life and work of a figure central to the development of scientific and literary thought in the 20th century. Marine biologist Edward F. Ricketts is perhaps best known as the inspiration for John Steinbeck's most empathic literary characters Doc in Cannery Row, Slim in Of Mice and Men, Jim Casy in The Grapes of Wrath, and Lee in East of Eden. The correspondence of this accomplished scientist, writer, and philosopher reveals the influential exchange of ideas he shared with

Marine biologists --- Aquatic biologists --- Marine scientists --- Steinbeck, John, --- Ricketts, Edward Flanders, --- Steinbeck, John --- Steĭnbek, Dzhon --- Ssu-tʻan-pei-kʻo --- Ssu-tʻan-pei-kʻo, --- Steinbeck, John Ernst --- Sutainbekku, Jon Ānsuto --- Sṭainbeḳ, G'. --- Stainmpek, Tzōn --- Sṭenbeḳ, G'on --- Ishtāynʹbik, --- Ishtāynʹbik, Jān --- Steynbek, Con --- Sṭeinabeka, Jana --- Стейнбек, Джон --- ג׳והן, סטיינרג --- סטיינבק ג׳והן --- סטיינבק, ג׳ --- סטיינבק, ג׳והן --- סטיינבק, ג׳והן, --- סטיינבק, ג׳ון --- סטיינבק, ג׳ון, --- סטײנבק, ג׳והן, --- סטײנבק, ג׳ון, --- استاين‌بك، جان ارنست --- ジョンスタインベック, --- ジョン.スタインベック, --- スタインベック, ジョン, --- Stainbeki, Jon, --- Istāyin Bak, Jān, --- استاين بک، جان --- Ricketts, Doc, --- Ricketts, Ed, --- Ricketts, Edward F. --- Friends and associates.