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Pages in category "American oceanographers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 222 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This list of oceanographers is presented in English alphabetical transliteration order (by surnames This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Curtis Ebbesmeyer. Ebbesmeyer with flotsam he uses to monitor ocean currents. Curtis Charles Ebbesmeyer (born April 24, 1943) is an American oceanographer based in Seattle, Washington. In retirement, he has studied the movement of flotsam to track ocean currents. He gained public attention by his reporting of studies of the movement and ...
Member of the Scottish Meteorological Society. Sir John Murray's grave, Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh. Sir John Murray KCB FRS FRSE FRSGS (3 March 1841 – 16 March 1914) was a pioneering Canadian-born British oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist. He is considered to be the father of modern oceanography. [2][3]
Jacques Cousteau. Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (/ kuːˈstoʊ /, also UK: / ˈkuːstoʊ /, French: [ʒak iv kusto]; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) [1] was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus (SCUBA), called the Aqua-Lung, which ...
Marine geology. Marine geology or geological oceanography is the study of the history and structure of the ocean floor. It involves geophysical, geochemical, sedimentological and paleontological investigations of the ocean floor and coastal zone. Marine geology has strong ties to geophysics and to physical oceanography.
Thermohaline circulation. Oceanography (from Ancient Greek ὠκεανός (ōkeanós) 'ocean' and γραφή (graphḗ) 'writing'), also known as oceanology, sea science, ocean science, and marine science, is the scientific study of the ocean, including its physics, chemistry, biology, and geology.
Oceanographers direct or influence interdisciplinary oceanography research. This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:Women oceanographers. The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Oceanographers. Oceans portal.