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Sea legs : tales of a woman oceanographer / Kathleen Crane.
LIBRA GC30.C73 A3 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crane, Kathleen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crane, Kathleen.
- Oceanographers--United States--Biography.
- Oceanographers.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 318 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- Sea Legs is the story of Kathleen Crane, one of the first women oceanographers out of UCSD's world-renowned Scripps Institution of Oceanography. By turns autobiographical and objective, Crane tells how her quest for freedom led her to the sea and her research of deep-sea underwater volcanoes. As a consequence of the difficulty of working in the U.S. gender segregated society during the 70s, she felt her only scientific future lay with cooperation with Europeans and even the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. In the process she became an "accidental diplomat."
- An explorer, environmentalist, and filmmaker, Crane's story encompasses the world's oceans, politics, and international relations, scientific espionage, ships, and a passion for the natural world. At its heart, however, it's a story about humanity and the forces that drive people to persevere, despite the odds, and do the things they love.
- Contents:
- 1 Duck and Cover 5
- 2 Victory at Sea 11
- 3 World Geography 17
- 4 Surf City 25
- 5 The Deep-Tow Group 37
- 6 A Conundrum 53
- 7 The First Search 59
- 8 Dante's Hole 71
- 9 Paratyphoid 81
- 10 Islands 85
- 11 Storm 95
- 12 The Best of Times, the Worst of Times 105
- 13 The Alvin and the Galapagos 121
- 14 Space Cadets 149
- 15 Woods Hole 159
- 16 Ice Palace 165
- 17 Collapse 187
- 18 Saints and Navigators 189
- 19 Titanic Madness 197
- 20 A Scientist in Film School 203
- 21 Fashions, French, and Fulbrights 207
- 22 1984 213
- 23 With the Navy to the North 221
- 24 Baikal 231
- 25 Rapid Russian Response 245
- 26 Soot 255
- 27 Compote 279
- 28 Come Away 283
- 29 New World 289
- 30 Dark Deja Vu 293.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-304) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813340047
- OCLC:
- 51553643
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