Despite our reliance on the ocean and its resources, it remains a frontier for scientific exploration and discovery. Seafloor observatoriesa unmanned systems of instruments, sensors, and command modulesa will have…

Outlines pressing marine research problems and offers recommendations for how they may be solved, with detailed discussions of how oceanographic research is conducted. This comprehensive book is suitable for researchers…

Sound has become a major tool for studying the ocean. Although the ocean is relatively opaque to light, it is relatively transparent to sound. Sound having frequencies below 1,000 Hertz…

Recounts the issues raised and the viewpoints aired at a symposium on repository licensing. This book summarizes the problems surrounding the setting of an Environmental Protection Agency standard for the…

Explores the views among scientists on the causes and mechanisms of sea-level change. This book examines measurement programs and make recommendations aimed at improving our understanding of the factors that…

Providing a review of geomagnetism, this book describes the scope of the science and its interdisciplinary importance. It explores a range of synergistic linkages in geophysical research and associated applications…

Recommends that the Arctic Ocean basin and its margins be the focus of a research program in three stages of study based on selected criteria: geologic framework and tectonic evolution…

Low-frequency sound waves are routinely used to investigate the topography of the ocean floor, the nature of ocean currents, the behavior of sound in the ocean, and other topics. But…