Sea Change Darlene Marshall

In this fast-paced and rollicking book, author Maxwell Taylor Kennedy takes readers on a wild ride as he relates the harrowing voyage to deliver his boat, Valkyrien, a 90-foot dilapidated wooden schooner, from San Francisco to Washington, DC. From day one, Kennedy and his skeleton crew face almost insurmountable odds and personal danger in their quest to make the crossing.

Researchers in Japan are developing new medications by tapping into the rich resources of the sea. They've used a type of marine sponge to make a drug that's now used worldwide to treat breast cancer. A substance in crab shells has been found to help wounds heal faster. It's already being used on animals, and holds promise for treating atopic dermatitis in humans. Oceans have been called Earth's final frontier. Scientists believe they may yield yet more revolutionary medicinal substances.

This volume addresses the strategic investments necessary at National Science Foundation (NSF) to ensure a robust ocean scientific enterprise over the next decade. The book provides guidance from the ocean sciences community on research and facilities priorities for the coming decade and makes recommendations for funding priorities.

Discover the Gulf of Maine and how its bounty was forever changed by a global appetite for fish. Now with the Gulf warming faster than 97 percent of the world’s oceans, witness how wildlife and people are adapting to rapid change.

This ethnographic study considers the engagement of Dutch fishermen with the limited resources of the marine world, as well as the capricious markets and political interventions that govern the fishing industry from the early eighteenth-century to the present day. More specifically, it focuses on the owner-operators, deckhands, fishermen’s wives, and others involved in the fisheries of Texel, an island at the northwestern end of the Netherlands. Elucidating how the fishermen have navigated treacherous waters, in both a real and metaphorical sense, for many decades, Braving Troubled Waters offers a portrait of a community at the interface of local, national, and supranational processes.