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Welcome to my little WWW book on oceanography for young people. I hope you will find it entertaining and educational as well as a useful source of Web resources on oceanography, marine sciences and maritime commerce.
The events described in this story are based on events that occured on several oceanographic cruises that I participated in in the late 1980's as an oceanographer with the U.S Naval Oceanographic Office. All illustrations and photographs are my own and the events are true as described and illustrated, although they did not all happen on one cruise.
In writing this book, it is my goal to excite young people about oceanography and to encourage them to study the marine sciences so that they may better appreciate this important part of our ocean planet. I have tried to include many links to real oceanographic and martime institutions. This will allow students to see what is being studied at real institutions by real scientists.
Since I have no control over what other people do at their own sites, please let me know at the email address LJFARR@aol.com if a link has been changed and I will attempt to keep up with the web. Likewise, you may send any comments or suggestions about the book in general to the same address.
Becky Farr (farr@daac.gsfc.nasa.gov)