H.M.S. Challenger: Doug Macdougall
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The creation of a new discipline based upon a single scientific expedition is rare, but this is what resulted from the 1872-1876 expedition of H.M.S. Challenger. With us to explain the history and significance of the Challenger Expedition is Doug Macdougall. Doug is a fellow of the Meteoritical Society and the American Geophysical Union. We discuss his book Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest – The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography, published by Yale University Press
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