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Warm Core Ring Project 12-29 June, 1982
(Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, 1984-01)The main objective of the third warm core ring cruise was revisitation of ring 82-B and the surrounding water masses. Located off the Baltimore Canyon, 82-B continued to be \vell suited to the program. With activities ... -
Warm Core Ring Project 19 April - 6 May, 1982
(Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, 1983-12)The second cruise of the Warm Core Rings program marks the beginning of an intensive season of field study. Again, our interests are primarily concerned with measuring the bio-optical properties of rings and surrounding ... -
Warm Core Ring Project 17 Sept. - 7 Oct., 1981
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Atlantic Ocean atlas of temperature and salinity profiles and data from the International Geophysical Year of 1957-1958
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1960)From the Preface: Within the framework of the observational program in physical oceanography which was executed during the International Geophysical Year of 1957-58, the WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION, Woods Hole, ... -
Anatomie menschlicher Embryonen. I. Embryonen des ersten Monats
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The development of the frog's egg : an introduction to experimental embryology
(Macmillan Company, 1897)From the Preface: The development of the frog's egg was first made known through the studies of Swammerdam, Spallanzani, Rusconi, and von Baer. Their work laid the basis for all later research. More recently the experiments ... -
The tides of the waters of New England and New York
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1980)From the Preface: This book is written for the many intelligent people who work or play along the coast between Sandy Hook and the Bay of Fundy in the hope that it will give them a better understanding of matters which ... -
The Starbuck essays of Henry Stommel
(Friends Of Starbuck, 1992)From the Forward: These essays appeared from time to time over a number of years in The Enterprise, the community newspaper of Falmouth, Massachusetts. I first encountered "Starbuck" as a youthful editor some forty years ... -
The embryology of Crepidula : a contribution to the cell lineage and early development of some marine gasteropods
(Ginn & Company, 1897)From the introduction: The purpose of the following work from its inception has been to make as careful a study as possible of the cleavage of the ovum, the formation of the germinal layers and definitive organs, and ... -
Dinoflagellate contributions to the deep sea
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1992)For the first time, sediment trap samples from several depths in the deep sea were analyzed to estimate both the types and amounts of mineral contributed by dinoflagellates to the deep sea sediment flux. Thecal remains ... -
Tintinnids : a taxon-vertical distributional study of settling assemblages from the Panama Basin
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1992)A series of samples collected in sediment traps deployed in the Panama Basin at various depths for 112 days were analyzed to examine the vertical flux of tintinnids, the trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans. Tintinnids in ... -
Radiolaria : flux, ecology, and taxonomy in the Pacific and Atlantic
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1991)Radiolarians setting through the oceanic water column were recovered from three stations (western tropical Atlantic, Station E; central tropical Pacific, Station P1; and Panama Basin, Station PB) using PARFLUX sediment ... -
Silicoflagellates and Actiniscus : vertical fluxes at Pacific and Atlantic sediment trap stations
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1991)Vertical fluxes of silicoflagellate skeletons were measured in meso- and bathypelagic zones at four PARFLUX sediment trap stations located in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The average flux measured at several depths ... -
Calcareous nannoplankton biocoenosis : sediment trap studies in the equatorial Atlantic, central Pacific, and Panama Basin
(Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1991)Sediment traps deployed on three moored vertical arrays collected particles at various depths in the equatorial Atlantic (Station E), central Pacific (Station P1), and in the Panama Basin (Station PB1). The calcareous ... -
Methods for obtaining and handling marine eggs and embryos
(Marine Biological Laboratory, 1971)From the Preface: The Introduction to the first edition of this book (1957) (see page viii) stated that the volume was admittedly incomplete, and that new methods for obtaining, handling and studying marine eggs and ... -
A guide to laboratory use of the squid Loligo pealei
(Marine Biological Laboratory, 1974)From the Preface: Unfortunately, a guide like this one does not happen simply. It is the product of polite requests (at first polite, anyway) from colleagues, of mutual nagging, and of wives with persistant memories. ... -
Notes on methods for the narcotization, killing, fixation, and preservation of marine organisms
(Marine Biological Laboratory, 1963)From the Foreward: An important activity of the Systematics-Ecology Program is the preparation of a study collection of the marine organisms of the Cape Cod region. Preparation of animal specimens requires careful ... -
An Arctic ecosystem : the coastal tundra at Barrow, Alaska
(Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Inc., 1980)From the Foreward: This book is one of a series of volumes reporting results of research by U. S. scientists participating in the International Biological Program (IBP). As one of the 58 nations taking part in the IBP ... -
Oceanography : its scope, problems, and economic importance
(Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931)From the Foreward: This book is part of a report submitted to the National Academy of Sciences by its Committee on Oceanography appointed in accordance with the following resolution voted on April 27, 1927: 'That the ... -
Keys to marine invertebrates of the Woods Hole region : a manual for the identification of the more common marine invertebrates
(Marine Biological Laboratory, 1964)From the Preface: This handbook of keys is an attempt to fill an obvious need at Woods Hole, the need for a general reference on marine invertebrates for the use of students and investigators who want to know what is here ...