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The Psychology of Ocean Literacy

open access: yesEncyclopedia
Ocean Literacy (OL) can be broadly defined as a framework for understanding the complex and evolving relationships between people and the ocean. It is increasingly recognized as a vital component of marine conservation and sustainability efforts. OL is inherently interdisciplinary, and psychology, while being a particularly relevant field, remains an ...
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Making the Sea Knowable: Ocean Literacies From a Sea‐Centred Perspective

open access: yesOcean and Society
In this article, I focus on the wave buoy and how it expands the concept of ocean literacy. The Directional Waverider buoy, manufactured by Datawell, is used worldwide to measure waves to produce knowledge about oceans in the context of rising sea levels
Tülin Fidan
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Empty Oceans [PDF]

open access: yes
How does the human population affect the population of marine species? What can citizens do to sustain seafood populations? In this lesson, students will learn how pieces of the ocean food web, fish, are being removed faster than they can be replenished.

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From Everyman to Hamlet: A Distant Reading

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The sixteenth century sees English drama move from Everyman to Hamlet: from religious to secular subject matter and from personified abstractions to characters bearing proper names. Most modern scholarship has explained this transformation in terms originating in the work of Jacob Burckhardt: concern with religion and a taste for ...
Vladimir Brljak
wiley   +1 more source

Faculty Excellence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Each year, the University of New Hampshire selects a small number of its outstanding faculty for special recognition of their achievements in teaching, scholarship and service.
University of New Hampshire
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Encountering coasts: The contested geographies of young people's coastal citizenship[s]

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This paper examines the contested geographies of young people's citizenship practices and performances in marine and coastal environments. This is important in developing original knowledge of how encounters with new and different coastal places, practices, people, morals and ethics can affect how young people relate meaningfully with[in]
Mark Holton
wiley   +1 more source

The Ocean & Society Survey: A Global Tool for Understanding People–Ocean Connections and Mobilizing Ocean Action

open access: yesOcean and Society
Recent years have seen calls for improved ways of assessing and understanding ocean literacy across a range of contexts. This article presents collaborative advances toward these ends on a global scale, through the co-creation of the Ocean & Society ...
Jen McRuer   +19 more
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Technical Change and the Wage Structure During the Second Industrial Revolution: Evidence from the Merchant Marine, 1865-1912 [PDF]

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Using a large, individual-level wage data set, we examine the impact of a major technological innovation — the development of powerful and economical steam engines — on skill demand and the wage structure among the merchant marine.
Aimee Chin, Chinhui Juhn, Peter Thompson
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