Quotes About Oceanography

I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.

It's not a huge surprise that there are habitations at the bottom of the Black Sea.

The crazy thing is we live on an ocean planet - nobody gets that yet.

I was thinking recently, I've always loved the ocean. If I could do it all again, I might do an oceanography degree. You can do ocean archaeology, and I thought that might be fascinating to do - man-made structures, where the sea has risen above the structures.

I loved my Communications class. The toughest one I had was Oceanography only because I didn't have too much interest in the oceans.

There is a lot of salt in the sea- enough to bury every bit of land on the planet to a depth of about five hundred feet. p280

and Range, p.187. 10 seamounts that he called

the main expressed goal for oceanographers during International Geophysical Year, 1957/8, was to study "the use of ocean depths for the dumping of radioactive wastes." This wasn't a secret assignment, you understand, but a proud public boast. In

The amazing thing about the sea is that it is perhaps the last truly unexplored frontier; most oceanographers estimate that only about ninety-five per cent of the sea has been studied. Meanwhile, the oceans are believed to contain more animals than exist on land, a majority of which have never been discovered.

and to compile accurate charts of the coastlines.

At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.

Taking care of the world's ocean garbage problem is one of the largest environmental challenges mankind faces today.

I had a myocardial infarction that registered at the oceanography lab in Tokyo.

It's a little-appreciated fact that most of the animals in our ocean make light. I've spent most of my career studying this phenomenon called bioluminescence. I study it because I think understanding it is critical to understanding life in the ocean where most bioluminescence occurs.

To push inward is hard, to descend even more so; it challenges our sense of who we are and where we came from. This is why, even though we are inundated with seawater, the advances of our oceanographic agencies do not match those of our space agencies.