LEADER 05208nam 22006854a 450 001 9910967657103321 005 20251116160456.0 010 $a1-299-13799-7 010 $a1-60344-721-0 010 $a1-58544-905-9 035 $a(CKB)111056486968938 035 $a(OCoLC)228040040 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary5003157 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000213458 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11175709 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000213458 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10150487 035 $a(PQKB)10152621 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3037696 035 $a(OCoLC)1132223307 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse77141 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3037696 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr5003157 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL445049 035 $a(OCoLC)50637748 035 $a(BIP)46501628 035 $a(BIP)6894588 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486968938 100 $a20000929d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 13$aAn ocean in common $eAmerican naval officers, scientists, and the ocean environment /$fGary E. Weir 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCollege Station $cTexas A&M University Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (431 p.) 225 1 $aTexas A & M University military history series ;$v72 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-58544-114-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 391-396) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Selling Bellevue, 1914-24 -- Chapter 2 The Hayes Initiative Bears Fruit, 1923-25 -- Chapter 3 Disappointment and Persistence, 1926-30 -- Chapter 4 Common Practice and UncommonBusiness, 1930-40 -- Chapter 5 Research, Relationships, and Policy, 1930-40 -- Interpolation: Interwar Observations -- Chapter 6 Finding a Niche, 1940-41 -- Chapter 7 The Critical Innovation, 1940-41 -- Chapter 8 Operational Applications, 1942-43 -- Chapter 9 Unfinished Dialogue, 1942-45 -- Chapter 10 Transition, 1945-46 -- Interpolation: Wartime Observations -- Chapter 11 Crossroads, 1945-46 -- Chapter 12 Shaping the Postwar Dialogue, 1946-50 -- Chapter 13 The Forest and the Trees, 1946-50 -- Chapter 14 Back to Sea with a Flourish, 1946-55 -- Chapter 15 A Closer Relationship, 1950-58 -- Chapter 16 Listening, 1946-61 -- Chapter 17 A Closer Look, 1955-60 -- Chapter 18 Coming Full Circle -- Gallery 1 -- Gallery 2 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aThrough two victorious world conflicts and a Cold War, the U.S. Navy and American ocean scientists drew ever closer, converting an early marriage of necessity into a relationship of astonishing achievement. Beginning in 1919, Gary Weir's "An Ocean in Common" traces the first forty-two years of their joint quest to understand each other and the deep ocean. Early in the twentieth century, American naval officers questioned the tactical and strategic significance of applied ocean science, demonstrating the gap between this kind of knowledge and that deemed critical to naval warfare. At the same time, scientists studying the ocean labored in their inadequately funded, discreet disciplines, seemingly content to keep naval warfare at arm's length. German U-boat success in World War I changed these views fundamentally, bringing ocean science insights to an increasing number of naval objectives. Driven primarily by anti-submarine priorities, the physics, chemistry, and geology of the ocean, more than its biology, became the early focus of American ocean studies. The World War II experience solidified the Navy's relationship with ocean scientists, and the years after 1945 found the American military investing heavily in both applied and basic research. Today, oceanography is a permanent resident on the bridge of American fighting ships and the Navy continues to provide much of the impetus and funding for fundamental research, in both naval and civilian laboratories. In "An Ocean in Common" Gary Weir focuses on the compelling motives and carefully engineered course that brought scientists and naval officers together, across a considerable cultural divide, to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of one another and the world ocean. Weir details how this alliance laid the powerful multidisciplinary foundation for long-range ocean communication and surveillance, modern submarine warfare, deep submergence, and the emergence of oceanography and ocean engineering as independent and vital fields of study. 410 0$aTexas A & M University military history series ;$v72. 606 $aNaval art and science$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMarine sciences$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aNaval research$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aNaval art and science$xHistory 615 0$aMarine sciences$xHistory 615 0$aNaval research$xHistory 676 $a359/.07/0973 700 $aWeir$b Gary E$01115696 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910967657103321 996 $aAn ocean in common$94475739 997 $aUNINA