A history of Antarctic science /

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Author / Creator:Fogg, G. E. (Gordon Elliott), 1919-2005
Imprint:Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Description:xxi, 483 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in polar research
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1330281
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ISBN:0521361133
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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505 0 0 |t Foreword /  |r Margaret Thatcher --  |g 1.  |t Introduction --  |g 2.  |t The science of the early exploration.  |g 2.1.  |t The scientific and technological background.  |g 2.2.  |t Edmond Halley.  |g 2.3.  |t Terra Australis Incognita and the theoretical geographers.  |g 2.4.  |t The voyages of James Cook.  |g 2.5.  |t The voyage of Thaddeus Bellingshausen.  |g 2.6.  |t Explorations by sealers.  |g 2.7.  |t William Scoresby: pioneer polar scientist --  |g 3.  |t The national expeditions of 1828 to 1843.  |g 3.1.  |t The scientific and social background.  |g 3.2.  |t The United States exploring expedition.  |g 3.3.  |t The French expedition.  |g 3.4.  |t Geodesy and the visit of HMS Chanticleer to Deception Island.  |g 3.5.  |t 'The magnetic crusade'.  |g 3.6.  |t The Antarctic voyage of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.  |g 3.7.  |t Comment on the mid-nineteenth century expeditions --  |g 4.  |t Averted interest and consolidation.  |g 4.1.  |t The mid-nineteenth century view of Antarctica.  |g 4.2.  |t Maury's campaign for an expedition south.  |g 4.3.  |t The rise of oceanography and Challenger's incursion into Antarctic waters.  |g 4.4.  |t Neumayer and the growth of German interest in the Antarctic.  |g 4.5.  |t Weyprecht and the First International Polar Year.  |g 4.6.  |t Reconnaissances by whalers.  |g 4.7.  |t Growing interest among scientists.  |g 4.8.  |t The voyages of the Belgica, Valdivia and Southern Cross.  |g 4.9.  |t Naval tradition versus science: the Discovery expedition.  |g 4.10.  |t The Gauss expedition.  |g 4.11.  |t The Antarctica expedition.  |g 4.12.  |t Scientific expeditions in the first quarter of the twentieth century.  |g 4.13.  |t The coming-of-age of Antarctic science --  |g 5.  |t The modern period - logistics and materiel.  |g 5.1.  |t The inter-related growth of science and technology.  |g 5.2.  |t Development of organization: the polar institutes.  |g 5.3.  |t The Byrd expeditions and the general introduction of technology.  |g 5.4.  |t Post-Second World War developments.  |g 5.5.  |t Developments following the International Geophysical Year.  |g 5.6.  |t Ships in the modern period.  |g 5.7.  |t Building technology.  |g 5.8.  |t The advent of satellites.  |g 5.9.  |t The impact of equality of the sexes --  |g 6.  |t The modern period - the involvement with politics.  |g 6.1.  |t The dependence of Antarctic science on public money.  |g 6.2.  |t Regulating of whaling and Antarctic research.  |g 6.3.  |t Nationalistic and imperialistic influences up to the Second World War.  |g 6.4.  |t The Antarctic in the Second World War.  |g 6.5.  |t The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey.  |g 6.6.  |t The assertion of American interest.  |g 6.7.  |t The growing problems arising from territorial claims.  |g 6.8.  |t The International Geophysical Year.  |g 6.9.  |t The Antarctic Treaty.  |g 6.10.  |t The Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research.  |g 6.11.  |t National Antarctic research organizations and operations.  |g 6.12.  |t Private expeditions.  |g 6.13.  |t The politics of conservation.  |g 6.14.  |t The problems of emergencies --  |g 7.  |t The sciences of the Antarctic seas.  |g 7.1.  |t The scope of the chapter.  |g 7.2.  |t Physical oceanography at the beginning of the twentieth century.  |g 7.3.  |t Marine biology and biological oceanography in the early twentieth century.  |g 7.4.  |t The inter-war period and the Discovery Investigations.  |g 7.5.  |t The impact of the Second World War on oceanography.  |g 7.6.  |t Marine biology in the immediate post-Second World War years.  |g 7.7.  |t Physical oceanography in the modern period: the advent of remote sensing.  |g 7.8.  |t Studies on sea-ice and icebergs.  |g 7.9.  |t Biological oceanography: productivity and the pelagic ecosystem.  |g 7.10.  |t Biomass --  |g 7.11.  |t Inshore marine biology --  |g 8.  |t The earth sciences.  |g 8.1.  |t The geological outlook at the beginning of the twentieth century.  |g 8.2.  |t Geological reconnaissance.  |g 8.3.  |t Geology during and after the IGY: the dry valleys.  |g 8.4.  |t The continental drift theory and the tectonic structure of Antarctica.  |g 8.5.  |t The ice-cap and the land underneath it.  |g 8.6.  |t Glaciology.  |g 8.7.  |t Climatic history and the records in ice-cores.  |g 8.8.  |t Meteorites on the ice-sheet.  |g 8.9.  |t Denudation processes.  |g 8.10.  |t Soil.  |g 8.11.  |t Physical limnology.  |g 8.12.  |t The wider role of geologists in Antarctica --  |g 9.  |t The sciences of atmosphere and geospace.  |g 9.1.  |t The atmospheric sciences at the end of the nineteenth century.  |g 9.2.  |t Heroic age meteorology.  |g 9.3.  |t Meteorology from 1920 until the IGY.  |g 9.4.  |t Meteorology during IGY.  |g 9.5.  |t Post-IGY meteorology.  |g 9.6.  |t Atmospheric chemistry: ozone.  |g 9.7.  |t Energy balance and modelling.  |g 9.8.  |t The beginnings of study of the upper atmosphere.  |g 9.9.  |t The concept of geospace.  |g 9.10.  |t Ionospherics up to the IGY.  |g 9.11.  |t Ionospherics during the IGY.  |g 9.12.  |t Geospace research since the IGY.  |g 9.13.  |t Cosmic ray studies and astronomy in the Antarctic --  |g 10.  |t Land biology.  |g 10.1.  |t The natural history of the Antarctic.  |g 10.2.  |t The development of Antarctic biology.  |g 10.3.  |t The physiological ecology of plants.  |g 10.4.  |t Invertebrate ecology and physiology.  |g 10.5.  |t Microbiology.  |g 10.6.  |t Limnology.  |g 10.7.  |t Ornithology.  |g 10.8.  |t Seal studies.  |g 10.9.  |t Conclusions --  |g 11.  |t Man and the Antarctic environment.  |g 11.1.  |t Heroic age medicine.  |g 11.2.  |t Medical research before and during the IGY.  |g 11.3.  |t Medical and psychological research after the IGY.  |g 11.4.  |t The International Biomedical Expedition.  |g 11.5.  |t Sledge dog physiology.  |g 11.6.  |t Introduced organisms.  |g 11.7.  |t Conservation --  |g 12.  |t Some concluding comments.  |g 12.1.  |t The persistent features of Antarctic science.  |g 12.2.  |t The contribution to science in general.  |g 12.3.  |t Arctic and Antarctic.  |g 12.4.  |t Internationalism.  |g 12.5.  |t Antarctic science and politics.  |g 12.6.  |t The effects of bureaucracy on Antarctic science.  |g 12.7.  |t Science and the humanist view of Antarctica.  |g 13.  |t Postscript. 
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