Oceanography
Oceanography (also called oceanology or marine science) is the study of the ocean, its properties and its characteristics. This can include, and is not limited to, studying the marine life, the geography of the ocean floor, and the water itself. Many sciences are useful in oceanography, so it is a multidisciplinary field. Oceanographers spend much time on boats.
Sub-Categories
The study of oceanography may be divide branches:
- Marine biology or biological oceanography
- Chemical oceanography or marine chemistry
- Marine geology or geological oceanography
- Physical oceanography
- Marine engineering
Oceanography Media
Benjamin Franklin's 1770 map of the Gulf Stream
1799 map of the currents in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, by James Rennell
HMS Challenger undertook the first global marine research expedition in 1872.
- Oceancurrents
Writer and geographer John Francon Williams FRGS commemorative plaque, Clackmannan Cemetery 2019
Oceanographic frontal systems on the Southern Hemisphere
The Applied Marine Physics Building at the University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science on Virginia Key, in September 2007
Stazione Zoologica of Naples in the 1890s
