Ocean Sciences Bridging the Millennia- A Spectrum of historical Accounts

Ocean Sciences Bridging the Millennia- A Spectrum of historical Accounts.
This volume is based mainly on the selected and edited papers from amongst those that presented at the Sixth International Congress on the History Oceanography (ICHO, VI, Qingdao, China, August, 1998)

1. List of Illustrations
2. Editor's note
3. Acknowledgements
4. Lives and achievements
(1) Gay-Lussac-The first chemical oceanographer?
(2) Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778-1850)
(3) Otto Petterson the oceanographer (1848-1941)
(4) Victor hensen (1835-1924)
(5) Biological oceanography: the present revisits the past
(6) Claude ZoBEll and the foundations of marine microbiology (1933-1939)
5. Expeditions and explorations
(1) Discovery Committee work in the Southern Ocean (1925-39)
(2) Data set of John Murray/Mabahiss Expedition to the Indian Ocean (1933-1934)
(3) The voyages of China's Zheng He and major European oceanic "discoveries'
(4) Russian ocean exploration and science-European involvement
(5) Russian Pacific Ocean exploration and the early stages of hydrography and oceanography (17th-19th c)
(6) Early years of biological oceanography in the Russian North Notes on FERHRI investigations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans
6. Regional and bilateral cooperation
(1) The founding of ICES-prelude, personalities and politics
(2) Early plans for an international synoptic investigation of North Atlantic deep water
(3) Development of Mediterranean physical oceanography
(4) The eel and Mediterranean oceanography
(5) Development of marine biological institutions around the Black Sea
(6) Black Sea marine biological institutions of the Ukraine
(7) The influence of German marine research on South African physical oceanography since 1890
(8) The naval observatiory in Tsingtau (Qingdao), 1897-1914
(9) Sino-German cooperation in marine science and technology since 1986
7. Man and the Sea
(1) Since when coastal protections?
(2) Impact of ancient Chinese nautical inventions on traditional navigation
(3) The rise and fall of the tide mill
8. Ocean resources, technology and management
(1) The lighthouses of China
(2) China's offshore oil industry
(3) Submarine cable development in China
(4) Zhejiang province, China
9. National contributions
(1) Thirteen decades of biological oceanography in Belgium
(2) Cetaceans and Belgian whalers
(3) Marine microbiological ressearch in China (1950-1990)
(4) Historical aspects of plankton research in the Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea
(5) Marine biological research in Tamil Nadu
(6) Oceanography development in India after disvoery of 'Bombay High' offshore oil deposit
(7) Ocean tidal studies in ancient and modern China
(8) Storm surge research at Ocean University of Qingdao (1971-1998)
10. China: contemporary issues
(1) Marine biodiversity in China
(2) Coastal hazards in China's Bohai Sea region
(3) Ocean science and technology development in Qingdao
11. International community support
12. Appendices