Sylvia Earle - Deep Sea Explorer and Ocean Conservationist
Sylvia Earle, often known as "Her Deepness," is a marine scientist, author, and former chief of the NOAA who holds the record for walking untethered on the sea floor at a lower depth than any other person. She has also been recognized by the Library of Congress as a Living Legend.
Sylvia Earle Biography
Sylvia Alice Earle (born August 30, 1935 in Gibbstown, New Jersey) is an American oceanographer. She was chief scientist for the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration from 1990-1992. She is a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, sometimes called "Her Deepness" or "The Sturgeon General".http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/front/adventurers/Sylvia.asp
Earle received a B.S. degree from Florida State University (1955), M.S. (1956) and PhD. from Duke University (1966). She was Curator of Phycology at the California Academy of Sciences (1979-1986) and a Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley (1969-1981), Radcliff Institute Scholar (1967-1969) and Research Fellow or Associate at Harvard University (1967-1981). She led the first team of women aquanauts during the Tektite Project in 1970. In 1979, she made an open-ocean JIM suit dive, setting a women's depth record of 1250 feet (381m); she also holds the women's record for a solo dive in a deep submersible(3280 feet, 1000m). From 1980 to 1984 she served on NACOA (the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere).In 1992 she founded Deep Ocean Engineeering along with her husband, engineer and submersible designer Graham Hawkes, to design, operate, support, and consult on piloted and robotic sub sea systems. The Deep Ocean Engineeering team designed and built the Deep Rover research submarine, which operates down to 1000 meters.
Earle has led more than 400 expeditions worldwide involving in excess of 7000 hours underwater in connection with her research.Home Page for Sylvia Earle From 1998 to 2002 she led the Sustainable Seas Expeditions, a five year program to study the United States National Marine Sanctuary sponsored by the National Geographic Society and funded by the Goldman Foundation. An expert on the impact of oil spills, she was called upon to lead several research trips during the Gulf War and following the spills of the ships, Exxon Valdez and Mega Borg.
She is the author of more than 125 publications concerning marine science and technology including the books Exploring the Deep Frontier, Sea Change (1995), Wild Ocean: Americas Parks Under the Sea (1999) and The Atlas of the Ocean (2001), she has participated in numerous television productions and given scientific, technical, and general interest lectures in more than 60 countries. Childrens books that she has written include Coral Reefs, Hello Fish, Sea Critters, and Dive!
Earle was named Time magazine's first "hero for the planet" in 1998. She is a Knight in the Netherlands Order of the Golden Ark.
Category: Image - :Sylviaearle.jpg|thumb|Sylvia Earle displays samples to aquanaut inside TEKTITE
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
Amazon Price: $11.16 (as of 10/15/2008)
Amazon calls this book, "an enthusiastic celebration of that diversity and abundance. It's also a profoundly sobering account of the shortsighted human assault on ocean life." For me, one of the most sobering parts of the book was when Earle compared the food/energy required to make a pound of beef (20 lbs of plants consumed per pound of body weight for a year-old cow) vs. the food/energy required for a pound of bluefin tuna (thousands of pounds of fish that consumed thousands of pounds of smaller fish, which in turn consumed thousands of pounds of plants). It puts everything in perspective.
A fascinating read I recommend!
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Caviar, Sturgeon (Imported)
Chilean Seabass
Cod, Atlantic
Conch, Queen
Corvina, Gulf (Gulf of California)
Crab, King (Imported)
Crayfish (Imported farmed)
Dogfish shark
Flounder/Sole, Atlantic (U.S. Atlantic)
Grenadier (U.S. Pacific)
Groupers (U.S. Atlantic, U.S. Gulf of Mexico)
Groupers (Main Hawaiian Islands)
Haddock (trawl-caught)
Hake, White
Halibut, Atlantic
Halibut, California (set gillnet)
Lobster, Spiny (Caribbean imported)
Mahi Mahi / Dolphinfish (Imported longline)
Marlin, Blue (Imported)
Marlin, Striped
Monkfish
Orange Roughy
Plaice, American
Pompano, Florida
Rockfish (trawl-caught)
Salmon (farmed)
Sea Turtles
Shark
Shrimp (Imported farmed)
Shrimp (Imported wild-caught)
Skates
Snapper (Imported)
Snapper, Pink (Main Hawaiian Islands)
Snapper, Red (U.S. Gulf of Mexico)
Snapper, Red (Main Hawaiian Islands)
Snapper, Ruby (Main Hawaiian Islands)
Snapper, Vermilion (U.S.)
Spearfish, Shortbill (Imported)
Sturgeon (Imported wild-caught)
Swordfish (Imported)
Tilapia (China, Taiwan farmed)
Tilefish, Blueline (U.S. Gulf of Mexico, U.S. South Atlantic)
Tilefish, Golden (U.S. Gulf of Mexico, U.S. South Atlantic)
Totoaba (Gulf of California)
Trout, Lake (Lake Huron, Lake Michigan)
Tuna, Albacore (Worldwide except Hawaii longline)
Tuna, Bigeye (Worldwide except U.S. Atlantic longline)
Tuna, Bluefin
Tuna, Skipjack (Imported longline)
Tuna, Yellowfin (longline)
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- Academy of Achievement - Sylvia Earle, Ph.D.
- National Geographic - Explorers in Residence: Sylvia Earle, Oceanographer
- The My Hero Project - Explorer Hero - Sylvia Earle
- About.com - Sylvia Earle Queen of the Deep
- Answers.com - Biography: Sylvia A. Earle
- Dive Global - Famous Divers: Sylvia Earle
- Literati.net - About the Author, Sylvia A. Earle
- CNN - Heroes for the Planet: Her Deepness
- Library of Congress - Living Legends: Sylvia Earle
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