Unit 3: Technology in Oceanography

Without technology the science of oceanography would still think the ocean bottom was an ice cube..

Unit 11: The Tides

Time and tide wait for no man… Geoffrey Chaucer?

Unit 12: Estuaries

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one… Khalil Gibran

Unit 10: Coral Reefs

Ice ages have come and gone. Coral reefs have persisted… Silvia Earle

Unit 9: Life in the Epipelagic

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever…Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Unit 8: The Deep Sea

May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam… unknown

Unit 7: The Ocean Bottom

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you…Friedrich Nietzsche

Unit 6: Waves

Like as the waves make towards the pebbl’d shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end… William Shakespeare

Unit 5: Ocean Currents

The ocean is a mighty harmonist…William Wordsworth

Unit 4: Primary Productivity

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe…John Muir