Distress Signals: Historical Waypoints in Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Since 1850

By inviting a historian to deliver the 2018 Roger Revelle Lecture, the Ocean Studies Board signals the value of fruitful engagement between the sciences and the humanities. Their decision honors Roger Revelle’s legacy. A brilliant geophysicist and oceanographer, Revelle embraced interdisciplinary ap...

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Published in:Oceanography
Main Author: W. Jeffrey Bolster
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2018
Subjects:
Atlantic fisheries
cod
fisheries
fisheries history
fisheries depletion
Oceanography
GC1-1581
Northwest Atlantic
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2018.208
https://doaj.org/article/51db5c697633496bb91c9e6d900c318a
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Summary:By inviting a historian to deliver the 2018 Roger Revelle Lecture, the Ocean Studies Board signals the value of fruitful engagement between the sciences and the humanities. Their decision honors Roger Revelle’s legacy. A brilliant geophysicist and oceanographer, Revelle embraced interdisciplinary approaches during the final years of his career, turning his attention to malnutrition, global poverty, and education. Roger Revelle recognized that thorny problems require multiple forms of knowledge.

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