"Developed in partnership with the National Geographic Society, [...] Oceanography : an invitation to marine science equips students with a basic understanding of the scientific questions, complexities, and uncertainties involved in ocean use-as well as the role and importance o…
Approximately 3000 middle and late Cenozoic nearshore marine molluscan taxa from western California are assigned to six time periods, spanning ~25 m.y. In this interdisciplinary study, western California is palinspastically restored for each of the time periods by backsliding an…
Reducing coastal risk on the East and Gulf coasts
"At the convergence of the land and sea, coastal environments are some of the most dynamic and populated places on Earth. This book explains how the many varied forms of spatial analysis, including mapping, monitoring and modelling, can be applied to a range of coastal environme…
