History of Oceanography & Earth Sciences

• Historic Works and Histories
  • Founders of Oceanography and Their Work, An Introduction to the Science of the Sea. Herdman, William Abbott. New York : Longmans, Green & Co.; London, E. Arnold & Co., 1923
  • Challenger Expedition
    • Report of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of HMS Challenger during the Years 1873 - 1876...   [Library of 19th Century Science]
    • Physical Chart of the World, Showing the Track & Soundings of H.M.S. Challenger, 1873 - 1876 : zoom in and out, and pan around on this historic chart of the world's oceans from the Challenger Expedition scientific reports [SIO Library]
    • Letters from Joseph Matkin: transcription of letters of a crewman on HMS Challenger. Originals are held in SIO Library Matkin 84-21 archival collection.
  • Golden Age of Geology [Library of 19th Century Science]
  • Biodiversity Heritage Library [WHOI]
  • History of Oceanography Newsletter: archive
  • History of Ocean Basins. H.H. Hess. IN: Petrologic studies: a volume in honor of A. F. Buddington. A. E. J. Engel, Harold L. James, and B. F. Leonard, editors. New York: Geological Society of America, 1962. pp. 599-620
  • 50 Years of Ocean Discovery: National Science Foundation 1950 - 2000 [Nat'l Academies Press]
  • History of the U.S. academic oceanographic research fleet and the sources of research ships. T.K. Treadwell, D.S. Gorsline, R. West.
    College Station, Tex.: Texas A & M University, 1988
  • Legacy of Scientific Ocean Drilling: Discovering Earth's Secrets [IODP]
  • The Discovery of Global Warming [AIP]
  • Unedited transcript of the Bathyscaph Conference, January 20, 1958 (morning session), National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C. Bathyscaph Conference (1958 : Washington, D.C.). Washington, D.C.:National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, 1958
  • History of Oceanography of the Indian Ocean [NIO]
• Photo Libraries
  • History of Oceanography [NOAA Library]
  • Historic Coast and Geodetic Survey Collection [NOAA Library]
  • Emilio Segre Visual Archives [AIP]
  • Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Napoli
• Institutional Histories
  • NOAA
  • Friday Harbor Laboratories, University of Washington
  • Oregon State University, College of Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University
  • Texas A&M University, Department of Oceanography
  • Florida State University, Coastal and Marine Laboratory
  • Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science
  • Mote Marine Laboratory
  • Virginia Institute of Marine Science
  • Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
  • Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
  • Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
  • Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen
  • Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn - Napoli
• Biographical Sites
  • Alister Hardy [Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science]
  • Robert Calvert Oceanography Oral History Project [Cushing Memorial Library & Archives, Texas A&M University]
• Bibliographies
  • Cumulative Bibliography on the History of Oceanography, 1987 - 2001. Day, Deborah, 2002  [SIO Library]
  • Cumulated Bibliography of Biographies of Ocean Scientists. Day, Deborah, 2001  [SIO Library]
  • A Handlist of Source Books on the History of Oceanography. Mills, Eric L., 2000  [SIO Library]
  • Bibliography on the History of Arctic Marine Science of the 20th Century. Day, Deborah, 2005  [SIO Library]
• Links
  • History of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science Links [NOAA Library]
  • Web Resources in the History of Geophysics [AGU]
  • Online Resources for the History of Physics & Allied Fields [AIP]