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Geoscience Data JournalMaritime historical documentary sources of weather and state of sea surface including sea ice can aid in filling a known climate knowledge gap for the Southern Ocean and Antarctica for the first half of the 20th century. This study presents a data set of
Dmitry V. Divine +8 more
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Science Triggers and Situational Interest in Everyday Family Life
Journal of Research in Science Teaching, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Interest in science is critical for science learning. The family plays a major role in supporting the development of children's interest in science by eliciting and fostering interest and engagement with science content and practice. This study characterizes triggers for interest in science in everyday family life and measures the duration of ...
Irit Vivante, Dana Vedder‐Weiss
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Inclusive hunting: examining Faroese whaling using the theory of socio-cultural viability
, 2017 Whaling is a globally controversial topic, and Faroese drive-style whaling, grindadráp, is no exception. A complex common-pool resource (CPR) institution, viewable from multiple moral, social, economic and political viewpoints, grindadráp is a challenge ...
B. Singleton, R. Fielding
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The American Whaleman. A Study of Life and Labor in the Whaling Industry [PDF]
, 1929 R. N. R. B., Elmo P. Hohman
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Journal of Research in Science Teaching, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Families play a pivotal role in fostering children's science literacy, interests, and identities through everyday interactions and informal learning contexts, with parents as main facilitators. An essential, yet often underexplored, aspect of this process is the role of emotions in shaping science learning experiences.
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Nature, 1928 I AGREE with Sir Sidney Harmer (NATURE, May 12, p. 748) that as the whale descends its chest is compressed and the density of its body is consequently increased. It is owing to this very fact (that is, its increased density) that the whale has difficulty in regaining the surface after descending to a great depth, and that there is consequently a limit ...
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EMBO reports, 2010 Howy takes aim at the exploitation of ‘scientific research’ as a pretext for the continuation of whale hunting, and calls for the scientific community to raise up its voice in protest.
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Den attendance by Arctic foxes experiencing 10 years of increasing tourism
Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Wildlife tourism is a growing industry, and an increasing number of people seek to observe and interact with wild animals in their natural surroundings. In Iceland, the native Arctic fox Vulpes lagopus is widespread and has been under heavy hunting pressure for centuries.
Ester Rut Unnsteinsdóttir +2 more
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Current perceptions and the need for a strategic plan for the whale watching industry in Mirissa, Sri Lanka [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2019 Marine mammal watching is a sub-category of wildlife tourism and has shown continual growth as a global industry. Sri Lanka is an island nation in the south of the Indian Ocean with one of the busiest whale watching industries.
T.G. Supun Lahiru Prakash +2 more
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