Definition and meaning of oceanography:

oceanography - the study of the earth's oceans and their interlinked ecosystems and chemical and physical processes. There are five major divisions within the science: physical oceanography, chemical oceanography, biological oceanography, geological oceanography, and meteorological oceanography

(Source: US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) )

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Atmospheric chemistry is a branch of atmospheric science in which the chemistry of the Earth's atmosphere and that of other planets is studied. It is a multidisciplinary field of research and draws on environmental chemistry, physics, meteorology, computer modeling, oceanography, geology and volcanology and other disciplines. Research is increasingly connected with other areas of study such as climatology. The composition and chemistry of the atmosphere is of importance for several reasons, but primarily because of the interact ...

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Canada - Mexico - South Africa - U.S. Rail Transport - Science - Sports Births - Deaths 1872 (MDCCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Wednesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. 1872 - Events. 1872 - January - April. January 2 - Brigham Young is arrested for bigamy (25 wives). January 12 - Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ...

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The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a major public research university in the Seattle metropolitan area. Also known as Washington and locally as The U or UW (pronounced "U-Dub"), it is the largest university in the Pacific Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast of the United States. The university has three locations, with its flagship campus in Seattle's University District and upper division campuses in Tacoma and Bothell. The University of Washington is considered to be a "Public Ivy"--a public ...

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The Cromwell current (also called Pacific Equatorial Undercurrent or just Equatorial Undercurrent) is a submarine river: A particular kind of ocean current that is, in effect, a river flowing under the surface of an ocean. Submarine rivers are a fascinating and relatively new field of oceanography. These beautiful mysteries of the nature show us that we humans have still lots of things to discover. The Cromwell current was discovered in 1952 by Townsend Cromwell a researcher with the Honolulu Laboratory. It ...

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The term aquatic refers to water and can be either a noun or an adjective. Dictionary definitions do not specify what kind of water, although in both general use and in the sciences, the implication is that of fresh water. The term marine is typically substituted where reference to salt water is intended. Lakes, rivers, streams, wetlands, and ponds are examples of aquatic environments. Aquatic ecology is a discipline that uses the principles and methods of ecology to study natural aquatic env ...

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The National Geodetic Survey is the successor agency in the United States to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. It was first established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast. Progress moved ahead slowly and haltingly during the first 25 years. Not until August 29, 1811 did Mr. F. R. Hassler sail for Europe to obtain the proper instruments. He remained in Europe during the War of 1812, then he returned ...

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Calypso is the name of a ship that Jacques-Yves Cousteau, one of the most important researchers in oceanography, equipped as a mobile laboratory for field research. Calypso was originally the minesweeper BYMS-26 (British Yard Minesweeper) built for the British Royal Navy by the Ballard Marine Railway Co, Seattle, WA., in the US. As hull number J-826 she was launched on March 21, 1942, and after acceptance and commissioning by the UK was assigned to the Mediterranean. After the war she became a ...

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Fetch has several meanings: Fetch is a term in geography and oceanography for the length of water over which a given wind has blown. Fetch, a game played between a human and a pet in which the human throws an object for the pet to catch and/or retrieve. Fetch, a pipeline stage of a processor in computer architecture. It fetches instructions from a memory or CPU cache and feeds them to the rest of the instruction pipeline. Fetch (FTP client), a software FTP client for Mac OS X.

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In oceanography, marine geology and biology, benthos are the organisms and habitats of the sea floor; in freshwater biology they are the organisms and habitats of the bottoms of lakes, rivers, and creeks. Animals belonging to the benthos are sometimes referred to as zoobenthos, while plants are referred to as phytobenthos Benthos can be categorized according to size: macrobenthos, size > 1 mm meiobenthos, size < 1 mm and > 32 µm< ...

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The field of biogeochemistry involves scientific study of the chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes and reactions that govern the composition of the natural environment (including the biosphere, the hydrosphere, the pedosphere, the atmosphere, and the lithosphere), and the cycles of matter and energy that transport the Earth's chemical components in time and space. Biogeochemistry is a systems science. Biogeochemistry - Biogeochemistry research. There are biogeochemistry research groups i ...

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The Challenger Expedition was a scientific expedition that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography. Prompted by Charles Wyville Thomson of Edinburgh University, the Royal Society of London obtained the use of a ship, HMS Challenger, from the Royal Navy and, between 1870 and 1872, modified it for scientific work, equipping it with separate laboratories for natural history and chemistry. The ship, commanded by Captain George Nares, sailed from Portsmouth on December 21, 1872. Under the scientific superv ...

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Climatology is the study of climate, and is a branch of the atmospheric sciences. In contrast to meteorology, which studies short term weather systems lasting up to a few weeks, climatology studies the frequency with which these weather systems occur. It does not study precise instances of atmospheric phenomena (for example cloud formation, rainfall and thunder), but rather their average occurrence over years to millennia, as well as changes in long-term average weather patterns, in relation to atmospheric conditions. Climatologist ...

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The focus of marine conservation efforts may range from protecting ecosystems, such as coral reefs, to protecting the health of populations of species such as dolphins. Species that marine conservationists are particularly concerned with include most marine mammals and cetaceans, and species of fish that are popular for human consumption, including such fish as cod, tuna, and salmon. Other species, including seabirds such as albatrosses and reptiles such as sea turtles are also often enda ...

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The university offers a wide range of programs of study in engineering, science, health sciences, business and public administration, education, and arts and letters. More than 65 undergraduate programs are available and nearly as many graduate programs. Physical therapy, coastal physical oceanography, and nuclear physics have gained national ranking. In the university's 70-year history, it has produced numerous award-winning faculty, Rhodes and Truman sc ...

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The term Mediterranean derives from the Latin mediterraneus, 'inland' (medius, 'middle' + terra, 'land, earth'), in Greek "mesogeios". The Mediterranean Sea has been known by a number of alternative names throughout human history. It was, for example, commonly called Mare Nostrum (Latin, Our Sea) by the Romans. In the Bible, it is referred to as the Great Sea or the Western Sea. In modern Hebrew, it is called "ha-Yam ha-Tichon" (הים התיכון), "the middle sea", a literal adaptation of t ...

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Ocean exploration - Early exploration. 4500 B.C. Around this time, coastal cultures like those in Greece and China began diving into the sea as a source of food gathering, commerce, and possibly even warfare. 4000 Egyptians developed sailing vessels, whitch were probably used only in the eastern Mediterranean near the mouth of the Nile River. 4000 B.C. - 1000 A.D. Polynesian colonization of South Pacific Islands. 1800 Basic measuring of the depths is done in Egypt. 600 Ph ...

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The salt content of most natural lakes, rivers, and streams is so small that these waters are termed fresh or even sweet water. The actual amount of salt in fresh water is, by definition, less than 0.05%. Otherwise, the water is regarded as brackish, or defined as saline if it contains 3 to 5% salt by volume. The ocean is naturally saline at approximately 3.5% salt (see sea water). Some inland salt lakes or seas are even saltier. The Dead Sea, for example, has a s ...

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According to the documentary hypothesis, there are three separate but interleaved prose accounts of the crossing. The earliest of these is that attributed to the Jahwist, the next to the Elohist, both of which are believed, amongst critical scholars, to be based on the Song of the Sea, a poetic account, also present in the torah, which predates them. The third prose account is that of the priestly source, which the documentary hypothesis states ...

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