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SUMMARY:Descriptions and disciplines in the ocean: defining the perspectiv
 e of oceanography in the 1920s - Katey Anderson (York University\, Toronto
 )
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CONTACT:Sophie Waring
DESCRIPTION:In 1927\, the naturalist William Beebe led an expedition to th
 e coral reefs of Haiti. Beebe  - a zoo curator\, naturalist and a writer\,
  was a well known\nfigure who used his vividly written books about field r
 esearches to attract funding. I look at his oceanographic field work in or
 der to juxtapose\nvisual technologies with the debates about methods and d
 isciplines in the study of the ocean\, as his expedition coincided with im
 portant efforts by\nother researchers to re-shape and re-new oceanography.
  Beebe's pursuit of an underwater perspective with diving hood\, camera an
 d underwater painting was self-consciously both modernist and nostalgic\, 
 a technoscientific spectacle. The new possibilities of visual access to un
 derwater worlds\nrevealed the growing distance between different kinds of 
 scientific research and between public and expert audiences. But they also
  help pinpoint the core of the debates about the ocean sciences\, the plac
 elessness of a global science.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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