Marine Scientists
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- Aristotle
- created scientific speicies classification system; he also studied dolphins+
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- founded a navigation center
- Vasco de Gama
- discovered route to India from Portugal
- Balboa
- found the Pacfic Ocean
- Magellan
- Circumnavigated the world
- Fermin Lasuen
- spanish missions priest that came after Father Sera and sailors named ports after him
- Sir Francis Drake
- discovered san francisco bay and was an admiral of the British Fleet
- Henry Hudson
- founded the Hudson Bay Company that was looking for the north west passage
- Abel Tasmen
- discovered Tasmania
- Ben Franklin
- mapped the Gulf Stream
- James Cook
- sailed to Hawaii and Australia. He developed a chronometer that told how fast the ship is going
- Antoine Jerome Balard
- discovered Bromine while studying sea water
- Louis Agassiz
- studied plate tectonics, glaciers, and fossil fish
- Charles Darwin
- developed the theory of coral atoll formation
- Matthew Maury
- charted currents and whale migration
- Edward Forbes
- studeied the deep ocean and found no life in deep ocean
- Thomas H. Huxley
- studied jellyfish
- Chrales Wyville Thomson
- had a boat named The Challenger and found the Mid Atlantic Ridge
- Sir John Murray
- went on the challenger expedition and made charts for navigation
- Fridtjof Nansen
- sampled water, if you want water from 200 feet down, you need a special bottle that captured deep water, also explored the Arctic
- Charles William Beebe
- invented bathysphere for deep ocean diving
- Auguste Piccard
- made underwater submarine
- Vagn Walfrid Ekman
- studied wind and ocean currents
- William Maurice Ewing
- developed underwater camera
- Alfred Wegener
- studied plate techtonics and island formation
- Rachel Carson
- wrote book called "Silent Spring" and "The Sea Around Us." promoted the value of sea. raised awarness on DDT
- Willard Bascom
- studied waves and why they break at sea and on shore
- Robert Ballard
- discovered titanic in 1986 and the Bismark, a war ship
- Eugenie Clark
- is a marine biologist that made movies on sharks and is a shark expert