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- Mining engineer, marine scientist and Harvard prof. Financed a series of expeditions, and was the scientific director on the first ship designed specifically for scientific ocean exploration, the Albatross. Designed much of the deep sea sampling equipme
- Alexander Agazziz
- Took the Fram to the Antarctic on his successful 1911 trip to the south pole. He also was the one who finally made a Northwest Passage entirely by water in the Gjoa leaving Norway in 1903 and arriving in Nome, Alaska three years later
- Roald Amundsen
- Offered 20,000 pounds sterling to whoever could create the first seagoing clock that was acurate to within 2 min. on a voyage from England to the West Indies
- Anne, Queen of England
- Believed the oceans occupied the deepest parts of the Earth's surface and knew that the Sun evaporated water from the sea surface which condensed and then fell as rain. He also began to catalog marine organisms
- Aristotle
- The English scholar and philosopher who, among other scientists, noted that the 'bulge' of South America could fit into the blight of Africa (the dip)
- Francis Bacon
- Suggested that some event prevented the transport of warm surface water northward and interfered with the formation of the North Atlantic deep water and in doing so greatly reduced the deep water flowing south causing the mini ice age that lasted around 7
- Wallace Broecker
- The French Naturalist who, among other scientists, noted that the 'bulge' of South America could fit into the blight of Africa (the dip)
- George Buffon
- Sampled ballast water with J. B. Geller from 159 cargo ships that were docked in Coors Bay, Oregon to see if organisms were being transported in the water. The organisms found in the ballast water were the same ones that had caused many upsets in local e
- J. T. Carlton
- The physicist who developed the mathematical relationship for the Ekman spiral, named after him
- Walfrid V. Ekman
- An astronomer who suggested that the dark spots on the earth's dayglow (image of the ultraviolet light emitted by atomic oxygen in the upper atm) are created when small icy comets vaporize in the outer atmosphere
- Louis Frank
- A Flemish astronomer who in 1530 proposed that there was a relationship between time and longitude
- Gemma Frisius
- Sampled ballast water with J. T. Carlton
- J. B. Geller
- An English pharmacist; proposed the first useful classification of clouds in 1803. He had stratus, cumulus, cirrus and nimbus
- Luke Howard
- From Princeton; in the early 1960's promoted the concept that deep within the Earth's mantle there are currents of low-density molten material heated by the Earth's natural radioactivity
- H. H. Hess
- The German scientist and explorer who, among other scientists, noted that the 'bulge' of South America could fit into the blight of Africa (the dip). He also went on a five year cruise to S. America in 1799-1804 to study the animals that lived in the curr
- Alexander von Humbolt
- In 1936 Inge, a seismologist, used earthquake data to establish the fact that there is a solid inner core by a fluid inner core that S-waves do not pass through
- Inge Lehmann
- A physicist who in 1899 used the amount of salt in the oceans to determine the Earth's age and calculated time for rivers to wash the salt from the land to be 100 million years
- John Joly
- Created a tide predicting machine in 1872 that made it possible to combine tidal theory with astronomical predictions to produce predicted tide tables. In the late 1800's he also calculated the time necessary for molten rock to cool to present temperatur
- Lord Kelvin
- He left Spain in September 1519 with 270 men and five ships in search of a westward passage to the Spice Islands. Named the Pacific ocean in 1520 for the calm weather he and his crew enjoyed while crossing. He finally discovered and passed through the S
- Ferdinand Magellan
- In 1936 with F. J. Vine of Cambridge University proposed that the magnetic stripes found in seafloor rocks represented a recording of polar reversals of the vertical component of the Earth's magnetic field
- D. H. Matthews
- In 1842 this Lieutenant was assigned to the Hydrographic Office and founded the Naval Depot of Charts. he began a systematic collection of wind and current data from ships' logs and produced the first wind and current charts of the North Atlantic in 1847
- Matthew F. Maury
- Reported by Strabo to have recorded an ocean depth of about 1800 m in the ocean near the island of Sardinia
- Posidonius
- In a series of volumes published between 1885 and 1909, the Austrian geologist proposed that the southern continents had been joined into a single continent he called Gondwanaland. he assumed that isostatic changes had allowed portions of the continent t
- Edward Suess
- One of the original authors of The Oceans which was published in 1942 along with Martin W. Johnson and Richard H. Fleming
- Harald U. Sverdrup
- He and Wegener independently proposed that the continents were slowly drifitng about the Earth's surface, but he soon lost interest in the idea
- Frank B. Taylor
- Attempted to answer to question of how old the Earth is by counting the generations listed int he Bible and determined that the first day of creation was Sunday, October 23, 4004 B.C.
- Ussher (archbishop, Ireland)
- In 1936 he and D. H. Matthews of Cambridge University proposed that the magnetic stripes found in seafloor rocks represented a recording of polar reversals of the vertical component of the Earth's magnetic field
- F. J. Vine
- German meteorologist, astronomer, and Arctic exporere who proposed that the continents were slowly drifting about the Earth's surface and continued to pursue this concept until his death in 1930
- Alfred L. Wegener
- In 1965 he was the first to point out that the relation of the seven major plates of the lithosphere were outlined by the major earthquake belts of the world
- J. T. Wilson