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The deepest map : the high-stakes race to chart the world’s oceans by Laura Tretheway

December 10, 2023 by sergneri 2 Comments

Tretheway, like Elizabeth Rush, is a very good nature writer. I had some experience working on mapping vessels back in my youth and it was very interesting to “go back out” albeit in my arm chair with much newer vessels and equipment. She builds up the background of ocean mapping, how little we really know, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Politics, Science, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene, Thinking about, What I Read Tagged: bathymetric, bathymetric mapping, Deep Sea Mining, economic zones, GIS, International Seabed Authority, ISA, Laura Tretheway, oceanography, Seabed 2030, sonar

“The Blue Machine – How the Ocean Works” by Helen Czerski

December 9, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Nov 22, 2023 Just finished “The Blue Machine – How the Ocean Works” by Helen Czerski. As you can guess, it is a non-fiction title, another scientist commenting on a topic dear to her and meaningful for most of us, a genre I’m finding attractive in my old age She’s a physicist whose work on … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Environment, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Future of Work, IT Failures, Politics, Racism, Science, Sea Stories, the Anthropocene, What I Read Tagged: density, emperature, global ocean PH, global temperature of the ocean, global weather, Helen Czerski, non-fiction, ocean currents, oceanography, pollution, salinity, The Blue Machine - How the Ocean Works, The Ocean

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