Introduction to the Worlds Oceans

Authors: Keith Sverdrup; Virginia Armbrust;
Division : McGraw-Hill Higher Education
ISBN-13: 9780073376707 (ISBN-10: 0073376701)
© 2009 | 10th Edition | 528 pages , Hardcover
Status : Active, In-Print
List Price: $185.95
Online Learning Centre : http://www.mhhe.com/sverdrup10e

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Description :
An Introduction to the World's Oceans, Tenth Edition, is an introductory oceanography text intended for students without a background in mathematics, chemistry, physics, geology, or biology. It emphasizes the role of basic scientific principles in helping understand the processes that govern the ocean and the earth. To keep the text as current as possible, the authors conduct their own research and examine other findings such as analyzing satellite data and large-scale oceanographic programs. From this vast amount of data, they select interesting, relevant, and understandable examples that illustrate contemporary principles of oceanography.

An Introduction to the World's Oceans places greater emphasis on the physical and geological aspects of the oceans than on the chemical and geochemical properties, because the latter disciplines require more specific background knowledge. An ecological approach helps integrate the biological chapters with other subjects. Students are encouraged to look at oceanography as a cohesive and united discipline rather than a collection of subjects gathered under a marine umbrella. As with all previous editions, the authors continue to make each chapter stand as independently as possible, so that professors can assign chapters in the order that best suits their classrooms.

• Each chapter in the new edition contains learning outcomes at the onset of the chapter.
  
• Dr. John Delaney, a professor of Oceanography at the University of Washington, has rewritten his Field Notes essay for the new edition discussing new approaches to exploring the ocean to include the five-year Keck study that developed 40 new instruments.
  
• LuAnne Thompson, professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Interim Director of the Program on Climate Change at the University of Washington, has contributed a Field Notes essay on The Oceans and Climate Change.
  
• New illustrations have been added including images and drawings of internal wave propagation, NOAA?s Project DART, Great Lakes shoreline erosion, temperature variations in global mean sea level, and depth penetration of different wavelengths of light.
  

• The authors each bring unique skills and expertise to this text. Keith Sverdrup has expertise in marine geology, geophysics, and how oceanography relates to other areas of science. New Author, Ginger Armbrust, has expertise in marine phytoplankton, marine diatoms and the links between ocean processes and human health.
  
• The book's website features a revised student study guide, flashcards, and web links, in addition to online quizzing, animations and exercises, and instructor resources. All of the website resources have been updated to correspond to the updated content in the text.
  
• The Presentation Center contains nearly every photograph and piece of artwork from the textbook. Additionally, this digital asset collection also contains video clips from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography.
  

About the Author:

Keith Sverdrup
Keith Sverdrup is a professor at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.