Invitation to Oceanography, 2/e provides readers with a dynamic overview of oceanography. The friendly
and readable writing style makes the text accessible to non-science students and is aimed at giving them an appreciation
of the field. The text also fully incorporates today's teaching and learning technology throughout, resulting in
an interactive, captivating, and enjoyable educational experience.
Features:
"Ocean Science" boxes appear throughout the text to highlight the various subdisciplines of oceanography
(biology, chemistry, physics, and geology). By pulling this background science material out of the main text, students
are able to review the basic scientific principles necessary to understand oceanography, while instructors are
free to cover these principles in whatever depth they prefer (see pages 104, 107, 113).
5 Process of Science boxes, unique to such books, help students understand how science is conducted and how
conclusions are drawn about the workings of the natural world. These boxes appear in Chapters 1, 3, 4, 14, and
15 (see page 115).
The Internet has been integrated throughout the book, through a text-specific web site called OceanLink. Ocean
Link allows students to explore topics of interest in more detail or examine entirely new topics in oceanography.
Instructors can also assign web-based problems as many of the end-of-chapter problems are expanded upon and explained
on the web site. For more information on Ocean Link, please visit the main homepage at www.jbpub.com/oceanlink.
Math boxes, titled "Science by Numbers", highlight an elementary concept or solve a math problem
in a detailed step-by-step fashion. These fundamentals can then be used by instructors to guide students in solving
end-of-chapter problems (see page 114).
An integrative discussion of shore environments and their biota is included in two chapters. Chapters 11 and
12 deal with the nature, processes, and biota of the shoreline, which is where most students will come into contact
with the ocean.
NEW! A new chapter on ocean resources has been added to the new edition (Chapter 14). This new chapter examines
the numerous ocean resources, invaluable to the welfare of humans, including how they are important and how we
must use them sustainably.
NEW! A new chapter on the Earth's structure and physiogeography of the ocean floor (Chapter 2) has been added
to the new edition. Includes an imaginative "walk across the ocean floor."
Recognized as the most accessible text for non-science majors, Pinet presents the material in such a way that
students will feel comfortable with it even as they encounter the information for the first time.
Contains a realistic, yet balanced, coverage of human impact on oceans. Chapter 15 provides examples where
environmental degradation has been curtailed, or even reversed, showing students that despite past abuses of the
ocean's habitat progress is being made - a break from the "gloom and doom" approach many other books
preach.
The author, Paul Pinet, is a widely recognized active researcher in the field of oceanography.
Table of Contents
1. The Growth of Oceanography
2. The Planet Oceanus
3. The Origins of Ocean Basins
4. Marine Sedimentation
5. The Properties of Seawater
6. Wind and Ocean Circulation
7. Waves in the Ocean
8. Tides
9. Marine Ecology
10. Biological Productivity in the Ocean
11. The Dynamic Shoreline
12. Coastal Habitats
13. Ocean Habitats and Their Biota
14. The Ocean's Resources
15. The Human Presence in the Ocean
