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Swells, Soundings, and Sustainability, but…"Here Be Monsters"
2017
Oceanography
We have been mapping the oceans for hundreds of years, from the stick charts of the ancient Marshall Islanders to the initial soundings of the 19 th -century Challenger expedition, to the multibeam sonars and robots of modern surveys. Today we map the oceans not only to increase fundamental scientific understanding of the ocean system, but also to protect life and property, promote economic vitality, and inform ecosystem-based management and policy. Towards this end, the United Nations
doi:10.5670/oceanog.2017.207
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